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道歉
Mandarin · pinyin dào qiàn
Meanings
- to apologize
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Mandarin tones
4–4 · dao4 qian4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
dou6 hip3
Cantonese word readings for 道歉. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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dou6 hip3
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verb
- (intransitive, verb-object) to apologize
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