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重拾

Mandarin · pinyin chóng shí

to pick up (a theme etc)
to regain (confidence)
to revive (a custom, friendship etc)

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重: zhòng · heavy, weighty; double
拾: shí · pick up, collect, tidy up; accounting form of the numeral ten

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2–2 · chong2 shi2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

cung4 sap6

Cantonese word readings for 重拾. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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