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擴散

简扩散 · 繁擴散

Mandarin · pinyin kuò sàn

to spread; to proliferate; to diffuse

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擴: Look up this written character
散: sàn · scatter, disperse, break up
扩: kuò · expand, enlarge, stretch

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4–4 · kuo4 san4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

kwok3 saan3 · kwong3 saan3

Cantonese word readings for 擴散. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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verb

to spread; to diffuse; to proliferate; to scatter about
(physics, chemistry, of molecules or atoms) to diffuse
(medicine, of tumour) to spread; to metastasise

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