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禿

简秃 · 繁禿

Mandarin · pinyin tū

bald (lacking hair or feathers)
barren; bare; denuded
blunt (lacking a point)
(of a piece of writing) unsatisfactory; lacking something

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(of a person's scalp) having little or no hair; bald
(of a mountain, vegetation, etc.) bare; barren; stripped
(of a tool) blunt
(of a work) unfinished; unsatisfactory
(Quanzhou Hokkien) slick and sly, hard to deal with (especially due to age)
(Northern Wu) all, everything

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