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鎩

简铩 · 繁鎩

Mandarin · pinyin shā

(old) spear; lance
(literary) to cripple; to harm; to injure

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铩: shā · moult

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

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long spear; lance
(literary) to wreck; to devastate
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to clip the wing of birds

character

(Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) to cut with a blade
(Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) with the sound of blade cutting

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