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Mandarin · pinyin pō#

Mandarin · pinyin Pō#

surname Po
Taiwan pr. Pǒ

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颇: pō · lean one side; very, rather

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1 · po1

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(literary) leaning to one side; oblique; slanting
very; rather; quite; considerably
(Eastern Min) about; almost
a surname, Po

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