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擢
Mandarin · pinyin zhuó
Meanings
- to pull out
- to select
- to promote
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- 擢
- zhuó · pull up, draw up; select
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Mandarin tones
2 · zhuo2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
zok6
Cantonese word readings for 擢. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- (literary) to pull out
- (literary) to select; to promote
- (Hokkien) to pull; to tug
- (Mainland China Hokkien, figurative) to guide and support; to lead
- (Mainland China Hokkien) to coax out of somebody; to trick somebody into telling (of a secret, information, the truth, etc.)
- (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) to roughly sew and mend
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to flatten out (especially clothes)
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