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蓽

简荜 · 繁蓽

Mandarin · pinyin bì

bean
pulse

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蓽: Look up this written character
荜: bì · species of bean; Piper longum

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4 · bi4

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bat1

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

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(literary) alternative form of 篳 /筚 (bì, “wicker or bamboo fence”)
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) A kind of bean.
Used in compounds.

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