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良

Mandarin · pinyin liáng

good
very
very much

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良: liáng · good, virtuous, respectable

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2 · liang2

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loeng4

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character

good; fine; well
good; virtuous; respectable
good person; virtuous person
(literary) innate; inherent; natural
very; very much; quite
(literary) really; certainly; surely
(obsolete) term of address used by a woman for her husband
a surname, Liang
(Catholicism) Leo (papal name)

character

(alt-of, alternative) only used in 方良, alternative form of 魍魎 /魍魉 (wǎngliǎng)

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