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勘

Mandarin · pinyin kān

to investigate
to survey
to collate

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勘: kān · investigate; compare; collate

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1 · kan1

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Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

ham1 · ham3

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

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to proofread; to compare
to investigate
(～日) (telegraphy) the twenty-eighth day of a month

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