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漲

简涨 · 繁漲

Mandarin · pinyin zhǎng#

to rise (of prices, rivers)

Mandarin · pinyin zhàng#

to swell
to distend

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涨: zhǎng · rise in price

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3 · zhang3

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

zoeng2 · zoeng3

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

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to rise; to go up; to increase

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(alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 脹 /胀 (zhàng, “to swell; to distend”)
to be filled
(Mainland China) to exceed by
a surname

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(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Alternative name for 南海 (Nánhǎi, “South Sea”).

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