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遏
Mandarin · pinyin è
Meanings
- to restrain
- to check
- to hold back
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- 遏
- è · stop, suppress, curb, check; a bar
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Mandarin tones
4 · e4
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Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.
Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 4 senses · 2 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
aat3 · kit3
Cantonese word readings for 遏. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
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- to stop; to suppress; to curb; to check
- (Hokkien) to snap something off; to break something
- (Hokkien) to drain; to strain (by pressing down on the solids)
- (Hokkien) to drain; to strain (by pressing down on the solids) — (Taiwanese Hokkien) to scoop off the scum on the surface of a soup while pressing down on the solids with a ladle
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