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淌

Mandarin · pinyin tǎng

to drip
to trickle
to shed (tears)

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淌: tǎng · trickle; flow down; drip

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3 · tang3

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tong2

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to drip; to trickle; to flow down
to shed (tears)
(alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 蹚 (tāng, “to ford; to wade”)
(dialectal) Classifier for blood over a surface.

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(historical dictionaries only) large wave

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(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) only used in 淌游 (chǎngyóu, “(of water) wavy”)

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