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椏

简桠 · 繁椏

Mandarin · pinyin yā

forking branch

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桠: yā · the forking branch of a tree

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1 · ya1

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

aa1 · ngaa1 · ngaa6

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

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(alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 丫 (yā, “the forking branch of a tree”)
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to close
(historical dictionaries only) a kind of tree

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only used in 㰁椏／㰁桠

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(Eastern, Min, Southern) a branch of a tree (especially a large one splitting from a tree fork as one of the primary divisions of a trunk); a twig

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