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潑
简 泼 · 繁 潑Mandarin · pinyin pō
Meanings
- to splash
- to spill
- rough and coarse
- brutish
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1 · po1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
but3 · put3
Cantonese word readings for 潑. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
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- to pour; to splash
- to submerge; to drown
- to brew (tea); to make (tea)
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) wild and unreasonable
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) fierce and bold
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) bad; poor
- (Hokkien, intransitive) to splatter; to splash
- (Xiamen Hokkien) to fan
- (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) Classifier for short periods of an event.
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- only used in 潑潑／泼泼 (bōbō, “wiggling of fish's tail”)
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