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渠

Mandarin · pinyin jù#

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Mandarin · pinyin qú#

(artificial) stream; canal; drain; ditch (Classifier: 條 tiáo)
(literary) big; great
(dialect) he; she; him; her
(old) rim of a carriage wheel; felloe

Mandarin · pinyin Qú#

surname Qu

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渠: qú · ditch, canal, channel, gutter

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4 · ju4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

keoi4

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character · Etymology 1

ditch; canal; drain; man-made channel (Classifier: 條／条 m c)
(literary) big; huge
a surname

character · Etymology 2

(literary or dialectal) third-person pronoun; he; she; it

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