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割

Mandarin · pinyin gē

to cut
to cut apart

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割: gē · cut, divide, partition; cede

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to cut; to cut off; to sever
to divide; to cut apart; to break up; to partition; to split
70th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "severance" (𝍋)
to cut in self-harm; short for 割腕 (gēwàn)
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, literary) to give up; to abandon; to reject; to discard
(Mainland China Hokkien) to wholesale (of merchandise)
(Taiwanese Hokkien) to allocate; to divide (property)

character

only used in 割包 (gēbāo)

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