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樂
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4 · lao4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
lok3 · lok6 · ngaau6 · ngok6
Cantonese word readings for 樂. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Definitions
- music; tune; melody; song
- (obsolete) to play music; to sing
- (obsolete) musician
- (obsolete) musical instrument
- short for 樂經／乐经 (Yuèjīng, “Classic of Music”)
- a surname
- (slang) short form for 樂子
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- joyful; happy; glad
- (obsolete) lasciviousness; lechery; decadence
- to laugh; to smile
- (Cantonese) short for 可樂／可乐 (kělè, “cola”)
- 24th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "joy" (𝌝)
- a surname
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- (obsolete) to be fond of; to enjoy; to appreciate
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- Used in place names.
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- Used in compounds.
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