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行

Mandarin · pinyin háng#

(bound form) row; line
(bound form) line of business; trade; profession
(bound form) commercial firm
(bound form) to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age)
(in data tables) row; (Tw) column
classifier for rows or lines

Mandarin · pinyin héng#

used in 道行 dào héng

Mandarin · pinyin xíng#

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行: xíng · go; walk; move, travel; circulate; Kangxi radical 144

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2 · hang2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

haang4 · hang4 · hang6 · hong2 · hong4 · hong6

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

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(literary or dialectal) to walk
(literary) trip; journey
(Cantonese, of a vehicle) to go
(Cantonese) to navigate
(Cantonese) to roam; to stroll; to wander
(Cantonese, computing) to run
to go; to move
to carry out; to execute
to perform (a salute)
OK; good
to be good; to work
to be good (opposed to bad) (usually in negative sentences, or with 還 / 还)
to be able to do something (usually mentioned before)
(Northern Wu) trending; fashionable; popular
(Hinduism, Buddhism) vedana

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profession; industry; trade; business
place for specific transaction
line of objects; row
(Mainland China) row (in data tables)
(Taiwan) column (in data tables)
(Cantonese) short for 行貨／行货
(Cantonese) coarse; of poor quality; too general

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(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) behaviour; conduct

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skill from monk training

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order; rank
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) used in 行行 (“bold; staunch; strong”)
used in 樹行子／树行子 (“row of trees”)

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to endure; to bear; to get by

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