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霜
Mandarin · pinyin shuāng
Meanings
- frost
- white powder or cream spread over a surface
- frosting
- (skin) cream
Characters in this entry
- 霜
- shuāng · frost; crystallized; candied
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Mandarin tones
1 · shuang1
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Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 5 senses · 1 Cantonese reading
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
soeng1
Cantonese word readings for 霜. 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.
character
- frost
- frost-like powder
- (medicine) cream
- (literary, figurative) white
- (Southern Min) ice
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