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革

Mandarin · pinyin gé

animal hide
leather
to reform
to remove
to expel (from office)

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革: gé · leather, animal hides; Kangxi radical 177; hexagram ䷰

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

gaak3 · gaap3 · gik1

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character · Etymology 1

leather; animal hide
(historical) leather armour and weaponry
(historical) ornament on the front of the cart
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 勒 (“headstall”)
to change; to alter; to reform
to remove; to expel
49th hexagram of the I Ching
a surname

character · Etymology 2

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 亟 (“terminally ill; critical”)

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