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搐
Mandarin · pinyin chù
Meanings
- to twitch; to have a spasm
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- 搐
- chù · cramp, spasm, convulsion; twitch
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Mandarin tones
4 · chu4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
caau1 · cuk1
Cantonese word readings for 搐. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- to twitch; to jerk (of muscle, etc.)
- (Hokkien) to throb in pain (of an injury, inflammation, etc.)
- (Quanzhou, Xiamen and Taiwanese Hokkien) to pull very briefly (to make level and straight)
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to lightly beat with a thin strip of wood
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