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讓
简 让 · 繁 讓Mandarin · pinyin ràng
Meanings
- to yield
- to permit
- to let sb do sth
- to have sb do sth
- to make sb (feel sad etc)
- by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被 bèi)
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
joeng6
Cantonese word readings for 讓. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- to allow; to let; to permit
- to ask (someone to do something); to get (someone to do something); to have (someone do something)
- to yield; to concede
- (driving) to yield; to give way
- by (passive signifier)
- (literary) to criticise; to reproach
character · Etymology 2
- a transliteration of the French surname and male given name Jean
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