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虧蝕

简亏蚀 · 繁虧蝕

Cantonese · source Jyutpingkwai1 sit6

Losses; to have a deficit

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Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.

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Reading & tones

kwai11 · high levelsit66 · low levelchecked · -t

Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.

Reading difference from Unihan

蝕 has the reading sit6 here; Unihan’s citation reading is sik6. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 蝕 sit6 as its own entry.

Computed by zimai: each syllable of the CC-Canto word reading is compared with Unihan 17.0.0 kCantonese for its character. The comparison does not say why a reading differs (a changed tone, 變音, a reading tied to one meaning, or a source variant).

Same syllable, six tones

kwai规kwai1a compass 跬kwai2kwai3—葵kwai4sunflower 愧kwai5ashamedkwai6—

sitsit1—sit2—舌sit3tonguesit4—sit5—sit6—

Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.

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