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具
Mandarin · pinyin jù
Meanings
- tool
- device
- utensil
- equipment
- instrument
- talent
- ability
- to possess
- to have
- to provide
- to furnish
- to state
- classifier for devices, coffins, dead bodies
Characters in this entry
- 具
- jù · tool, implement; draw up, write
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Mandarin tones
4 · ju4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
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Cantonese word readings for 具. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- tool; implement
- to possess; to have
- (literary) to provide; to furnish
- (literary) ability; talent
- (literary) to state; to report; to list
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 俱 (“all; every”)
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) feast
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) in full detail
- Classifier for coffins, corpses, and certain instruments.
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