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竄

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Mandarin · pinyin cuàn

to flee
to scuttle
to exile or banish
to amend or edit

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窜: cuàn · run away; revise, edit; expel

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4 · cuan4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

cyun2 · cyun3

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

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(now derogatory) to flee; to go in exile
(literary) to exile; to banish
(literary) to hide
(literary, or in compounds) to revise; to edit
(neologism, officialese, derogatory) Short for 竄訪／窜访 (cuànfǎng)
a surname, Cuan

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