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析
Mandarin · pinyin xī
Meanings
- to separate
- to divide
- to analyze
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- 析
- xī · split wood; break apart; divide
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Mandarin tones
1 · xi1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
cik1 · sik1
Cantonese word readings for 析. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- (literary) to split, cleave (specifically wood)
- (in compounds or literary) to divide, separate, disperse
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to dispel, relieve
- (in compounds or literary) to analyse, distinguish
- (Hakka) Classifier for small fragments: piece, slice
- (Hakka) side (either half)
- (Hakka) to sprain
- used in 析析 and 析翳
- A former town of Chu during the Spring and Autumn period, former county in Han dynasty, and former province of Northern Wei during the Northern and Southern dynasties; now in Xixia, Nanyang, Henan
- a surname
character · Etymology 1
- (obsolete) a type of grass resembling oat
- used in 脾析 (“omasum”)
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