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動情

简动情 · 繁動情

Mandarin · pinyin dòng qíng

to get excited
passionate
aroused to passion
to fall in love
on heat (of animals)

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動: dòng · move, happen; movement, action
情: qíng · feeling, sentiment, emotion
动: dòng · move, happen; movement, action

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4–2 · dong4 qing2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

dung6 cing4

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

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verb

(verb-object) to get worked up; to get excited; to do something with emotion; to do something passionately
(verb-object) to have one's passions aroused; to become (sexually) aroused; to fall in love; (of animals) to be in heat

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