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刷

Mandarin · pinyin shuā#

a brush
to paint; to daub
to brush; to scrub
(fig.) to remove; to eliminate (from a contest); to fire (from a job)
(onom.) swish; rustle
to swipe (a card)
to scroll on (a phone)
(gaming) to grind; to farm (for experience points, equipment, levels etc)

Mandarin · pinyin shuà#

to select

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刷: shuā · brush; clean with brush, scrub

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1 · shua1

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

caat3 · saat3

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brush (tool)
(transitive) to brush; to scrub; to clean with a brush
(transitive) to paint with a brush
(colloquial, transitive) to eliminate
(transitive) to swipe (a card, etc.); to scan
(chiefly Mainland China, neologism, colloquial, transitive) to browse through (updates on social media etc.); to flip through
(colloquial, transitive) to write; to finish (a massive quantity of works)
(computing, transitive) to flash
(video games, transitive) to grind
(video games, transitive) to spawn

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(dialectal) to pick; to choose

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