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出汁

Mandarin · pinyin chū zhī

dashi (soup stock used in Japanese cuisine) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese)

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出: chū · go out, send out; stand; produce
汁: zhī · juice, liquor, fluid, sap, gravy, sauce

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1–1 · chu1 zhi1

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noun

dashi (type of soup or cooking stock)

adv

(Cantonese) extremely (used idiomatically with the particle 到 after several specific single-word adjectives)

verb

(Quanzhou Hokkien) to seep out; to exude (liquid)

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