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瑣碎

简 琐碎 · 繁 瑣碎
Mandarin · pinyin suǒ suì

Meanings

  1. trifling
  2. trivial
  3. tedious
  4. inconsequential
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瑣
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碎
suì · break, smash; broken, busted
琐
suǒ · trifling, petty; troublesome
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3–4 · suo3 sui4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

so2 seoi3

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

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so2 seoi3

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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

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adj

  1. trivial; inconsequential; trifling

adj

  1. (Taiwanese Hokkien) entangled; complicated (to the point of being hard to settle or manage)

verb

  1. (Taiwanese Hokkien) to have a quarrel; to become embroiled into a dispute or trouble (of people)

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