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框
Mandarin · pinyin kuàng
Meanings
- frame (e.g. door frame)
- casing
- fig. framework
- template
- to circle (i.e. draw a circle around sth)
- to frame
- to restrict
- Taiwan pr. kuāng
Characters in this entry
- 框
- kuàng · kuāng · frame; framework; door frame
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Mandarin tones
4 · kuang4
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Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 8 senses · 2 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
hong1 · kwaang1
Cantonese word readings for 框. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
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- frame; circle; case
- box; block
- to restrain; to restrict; to confine; to bind
- (colloquial, dialectal, including Taiwanese Hokkien) to draw a frame (around words or an image)
- (Classical) door of a coffin
- (Cantonese) to circle around (a building, area, etc.)
- (Cantonese, Taiwanese Hokkien) to enclose something
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to dig out with the edge of a blade (to remove something)
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