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卻

简却 · 繁卻

Mandarin · pinyin què

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卻: Look up this written character
却: què · still, but; decline; retreat

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4 · que4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

koek3

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

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to withdraw; to retreat
(literary) to drive back (enemy)
to decline; to refuse
(particle placed after monosyllabic verbs) to do away with
(only sentence-medially) but; yet; however

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