件
Meanings
- item
- component
- classifier for events, things, clothes etc
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- 件
- jiàn · numerary adjunct for article; matter
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4 · jian4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
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Cantonese word readings for 件. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- (literary) to separate; to distinguish
- item; component
- document; letter
- Classifier for things which can be numerically counted, such as pieces of luggage, clothes, events: piece
- a surname
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