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黜
Mandarin · pinyin chù
Meanings
- to dismiss from office
- to expel
Characters in this entry
- 黜
- chù · dismiss; demote, downgrade
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Mandarin tones
4 · chu4
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Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 7 senses · 5 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
ceot1 · zeot1 · zeot3 · zyut3 · zyut6
Cantonese word readings for 黜. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- (literary) to dismiss; to demote; to downgrade
- (literary) to discard; to reject
- (literary) to abolish
- (literary) to belittle and denounce
- (Hokkien) to come loose; to come off
- (Hokkien) to rub back and forth (to make something fall off)
- (Mainland China Hokkien) to trample with one's feet, or to rub one's feet against each other
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