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撅

Mandarin · pinyin juē

to protrude
to stick out
to pout (also written 噘)
to embarrass (people)

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撅: juē · protrude; snap, break; dig

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1 · jue1

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

gwai3 · gwat6 · kyut3 · zyut6

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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

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to lift; to raise; to stick up
to snap off
(Mainland China, neologism, Internet slang) to have sexual intercourse, especially anal sex; to sodomize

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(alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 掘 (jué, “to dig; to excavate”)

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(obsolete) to lift (clothes)

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