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拆
Mandarin · pinyin chāi
Meanings
- to tear open
- to tear down
- to tear apart
- to open
Characters in this entry
- 拆
- chāi · to break up, split apart, rip open; to destroy
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Mandarin tones
1 · chai1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
caak3
Cantonese word readings for 拆. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- (literary) alternative form of 坼 (chè, “to split, crack; to bloom”)
- (obsolete) to distinguish, analyze
- to take apart, dismantle, tear open
- to split cost proportionally
- to tear down, demolish, destroy
- (Cantonese) to solve (a problem)
- (Cantonese, of one's voice) hoarse
- (Hokkien) to purchase, buy (tickets, medicine, etc.)
- (Wu) to shit, defecate
- Classifier for distance: distance between the thumb and the index finger when stretched wide apart
- (divination, I Ching) outcome in which three coins show an even number of tails (zero or two), designated as ⚋
character
- to hit, strike
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