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波鞋
Mandarin · pinyin bō xié
Meanings
- (dialect) sports shoes; sneakers (originally Cantonese: 波 is borrowed from English "ball", Jyutping bō)
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1–2 · bo1 xie2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
bo1 haai4
Cantonese word readings for 波鞋. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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noun
- (Cantonese, dialectal Hakka, Pinghua, Hainanese, Teochew, Zhongshan Min) sneakers; trainers; athletic shoes (Classifier: 隻/只 c; 對/对 c)
- (Shanghainese) light-up shoes; shoes that light up when walking
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