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逕

简径 · 迳 · 繁逕

Mandarin · pinyin jìng#

footpath; path; track; (fig.) a way; a means (variant of 徑 jìng)
directly; straight (variant of 徑 jìng)

Mandarin · pinyin jìng#

used in personal names and place names

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径: jìng · narrow path; diameter; direct

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4 · jing4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

gaang3 · ging3

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

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(alt. form 徑) small path
to go to; to reach
(literary, of water) to flow through
directly
(archaic) diameter

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