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興

简兴 · 繁興

Mandarin · pinyin xīng#

to rise
to flourish
to become popular
to start
to encourage
to get up
(often used in the negative) to permit or allow (dialect)
maybe (dialect)

Mandarin · pinyin xìng#

feeling or desire to do sth
interest in sth
excitement

Mandarin · pinyin Xīng#

surname Xing

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興: xìng · thrive, prosper, flourish
兴: xìng · thrive, prosper, flourish

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1 · xing1

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

hing1 · hing3 · jan6

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

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character

to rise; to get up
to thrive; to prosper; to flourish
prosperous; flourishing
to be popular; to be fashionable
to start; to build; to establish
to elect; to promote
to succeed; to achieve success
to send; to dispatch; to launch; to mount
to collect; to recruit
to do; to perform
to advocate; to encourage
to indulge; to spoil
(dialectal, chiefly in the negative) to allow; to permit
maybe; perhaps
(Teochew) lucky; fortunate
a surname

character

excitement; interest; desire; mood in doing something
sensual desire; sexual desire; passion
(obsolete or Min) to like; to be fond of; to love; to desire
to liken; to analogise
(rhetoric) metaphor
(poetry) association; speaking first of something else to lead up to the main theme
(Wu) bustling; lively

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