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利市

Mandarin · pinyin lì shì

business profit
auspicious
lucky
small sum of money offered on festive days

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利: lì · gains, advantage, profit, merit
市: shì · market, fair; city, town; trade

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4–4 · li4 shi4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

lai6 si6 · lei6 si6

Cantonese word readings for 利市. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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noun

profits
(literary) good business; good market
(dialectal) omen of good business
(Cantonese, Hakka, Nanning Pinghua, Guangxi Mandarin, Teochew) red envelope; red packet; lai see (a monetary gift which is given during holidays or special occasions) (Classifier: 封)

adj

(dialectal, chiefly Cantonese, Hakka) lucky
(Zhangzhou Hokkien, of a business) prosperous

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