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花會
简 花会 · 繁 花會Mandarin · pinyin huā huì
Meanings
- flower fair or festival
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1–4 · hua1 hui4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
faa1 wui2
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noun
- flower fair (a traditional activity popular in Hebei province, often held during the Chinese New Year and Lantern Festival, featuring numerous varieties of folk song, dance, Chinese opera, stiltwalking, fan drums, lion dance, and "dry boats")
- (Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien and Mandarin, gambling, historical) an illegal gambling numbers game, from Early Ming dynasty till it was banned in 1949, historically popular in Fujian, Guangdong, Shanghai, Guangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Tianjin, Beijing, and further across Mainland China, Taiwan and abroad
- (Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien and Mandarin, gambling, historical) an illegal gambling numbers game, from Early Ming dynasty till it was banned in 1949, historically popular in Fujian, Guangdong, Shanghai, Guangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Tianjin, Beijing, and further across Mainland China, Taiwan and abroad — (gambling, historical) a gambling game using an octangular teetotum with 5 to 8 characters
- (Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien and Mandarin, gambling, historical) an illegal gambling numbers game, from Early Ming dynasty till it was banned in 1949, historically popular in Fujian, Guangdong, Shanghai, Guangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Tianjin, Beijing, and further across Mainland China, Taiwan and abroad — (gambling, historical) a gambling game played by shaking dice without a teetotum with up to 37 characters
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