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吮
Mandarin · pinyin shǔn
Meanings
- to suck
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- 吮
- shǔn · suck with mouth, sip, lick
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Mandarin tones
3 · shun3
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Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 7 senses · 3 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
cyun5 · seon5 · syun5
Cantonese word readings for 吮. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character · Etymology 1
- to suck (with one's mouth)
- (Hokkien) to lick; to taste with the tongue
- (Mainland China Hokkien) to land on food and feed (of flies, mosquitoes, etc.)
character · Etymology 2
- (Hokkien) to pick off or strip off or scrape off edible food from inedible material like bone, shell, or seeds (usually with one's teeth and/or tongue)
- (Hokkien) to gnaw; to nibble off causing holes (by insects)
- (Hokkien) to comb; to pluck or pick off dirt (as a bird grooms itself with its beak)
- (Hokkien, figurative) to nitpick; to find fault; to be fussy
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