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飲彈

简饮弹 · 繁飲彈

Mandarin · pinyin yǐn dàn

to shoot oneself

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饮: yǐn · drink; swallow; kind of drink
弹: dàn · pellet, bullet, shot, shell

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3–4 · yin3 dan4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

jam2 daan2

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

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verb

(literary) to be hit by a bullet
to commit suicide by shooting oneself in the back of the throat

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