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冤

Mandarin · pinyin yuān

injustice
grievance
wrong

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冤: yuān · grievance, injustice, wrong

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jyun1

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to wrong; to treat unjustly
not cost-effective
(literary, or in compounds) grievance; unjust
(literary, or in compounds) enmity; hatred
(Cantonese) to pester; to bother; to annoy
(Cantonese) alternative form of 㾓 (jyun¹, “sore; achy and tired”)
(Southern Min) to argue; to quarrel

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