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涮
Mandarin · pinyin shuàn
Meanings
- to rinse; to swish (in water)
- to trick; to fool sb
- to cook by dipping finely sliced ingredients briefly in boiling water or soup (generally done at the dining table)
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- 涮
- shuàn · rinse; cook or boil in juice
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Mandarin tones
4 · shuan4
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Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 3 senses · 3 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
hyun1 · saan3 · syun3
Cantonese word readings for 涮. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- to rinse clean; to swill
- to scald thin slices of meat in boiling water (then immediately taken out)
character · Etymology 2
- (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to scald thin slices of meat in boiling water (then immediately taken out)
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