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疾

Mandarin · pinyin jí

(bound form) disease; ailment
(bound form) swift
(literary) to hate; to abhor

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疾: jí · illness, disease, sickness; to hate

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2 · ji2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

zaat6 · zat6

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

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(literary or in compounds) swift; quick; hasty
(literary or in compounds) strong; forceful
(literary or in compounds) illness; disease; sickness
(obsolete or dialectal Hakka) to ache; to be painful
(obsolete) (alt. form 嫉) to hate; to loathe
(alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 嫉 (jí, “to envy”)

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