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長短
简 长短 · 繁 長短Mandarin · pinyin cháng duǎn
Meanings
- length
- accident; mishap
- right and wrong; good and bad; merits and demerits
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2–3 · chang2 duan3
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
coeng4 dyun2
Cantonese word readings for 長短. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
noun
- length (measurement)
- size; dimensions (of an object)
- accident; mishap
- right and wrong; good and bad points
- (archaic) method of promoting political ideas used by the School of Diplomacy during the Warring States period
adv
- (literary or Teochew) in any case; at any rate; whatever happens; no matter what
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