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牛肉乾
简 牛肉干 · 繁 牛肉乾Mandarin · pinyin niú ròu gān
Meanings
- dried beef; beef jerky
Characters in this entry
- 牛
- niú · cow, ox, bull; Kangxi radical 93; 9th lunar mansion, determinative star β Capricorni (Dabih)
- 肉
- ròu · flesh; meat; Kangxi radical 130
- 乾
- qián · gān · dry; warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male); trigram ☰; hexagram ䷀
- 干
- gàn · oppose, offend; invade; dried
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Mandarin tones
2–4–1 · niu2 rou4 gan1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
ngau4 juk6 gon1
Cantonese word readings for 牛肉乾. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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ngau4 juk6 gon1
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
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noun
- dried beef; beef jerky; bakkwa (Classifier: 塊/块 m c)
- (Cantonese, figurative) parking ticket (legal summons) (Classifier: 張/张 c; 疊/叠 c)
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