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起色
Mandarin · pinyin qǐ sè
Meanings
- a turn for the better
- to pick up
- to improve
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3–4 · qi3 se4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
hei2 sik1
Cantonese word readings for 起色. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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noun
- improvement (from a bad state); turn for the better
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