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Mandarin · pinyin jiào#

a nap
a sleep
Classifier: 場 cháng

Mandarin · pinyin jué#

to feel
to find that
thinking
awake
aware

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觉: jué · to wake up from sleep; conscious

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4 · jiao4

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gaau3 · gok3

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character

to become aware; to dawn on; to awaken to
to feel; to think
sense; sensation; feeling
a surname, Jue

character

(literary) to wake up from sleep

character

sleep; nap
Classifier for periods of sleep.
(obsolete) alternative form of 較 /较 (“to compare”)

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