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餳
简 饧 · 繁 餳Mandarin · pinyin xíng
Meanings
- maltose syrup
- molasses
- heavy (eyelids)
- drowsy-eyed
- listless
- (of dough, candy etc) to soften
- to become soft and sticky
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2 · xing2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
cing4 · tong4
Cantonese word readings for 餳. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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- (literary) treacle; molasses; syrup
- (of dough, sweets, etc.) to get soft; to get sticky
- sleepy; drowsy
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