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滾水

简滚水 · 繁滾水

Mandarin · pinyin gǔn shuǐ

boiling water

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水: shuǐ · water, liquid, lotion, juice
滚: gǔn · turn

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3–3 · gun3 shui3

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gwan2 seoi2

Cantonese word readings for 滾水. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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noun

(Malaysia, Singapore, Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien, Puxian Min) boiling water; very hot water
(dialectal) boiling water; boiled water
(dialectal Cantonese, dialectal Hakka, dialectal Gan, Puxian Min) hot water

intj

(Cantonese) Used to ask someone in the way to move aside.

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