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擷

简撷 · 繁擷

Mandarin · pinyin xié

to collect
Taiwan pr. jié

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撷: xié · pick up, gather up; hold in lap

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2 · xie2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

git3 · kit3

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

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(literary) to take; to pick; to pluck; to gather
(alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 襭 /𮖱 (xié, “to carry beneath one's robe”)

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(Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) to wave; to flutter; to fly

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