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啜

Mandarin · pinyin chuò

(literary) to drink
to sip
to sob

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啜: chuài · sip, suck up; sob, weep

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4 · chuo4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

cyut3 · zyut3

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

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character · Etymology 1

(literary or dialectal) to taste; to eat; to drink; to sip
(Cantonese) to suck
(Cantonese) to kiss
(Cantonese) to stick to (a surface); to be stuck on
(literary) thick soup
(literary) to sob; to weep
(Hakka) alternative form of 撮 (cod⁵) to cheat; to deceive; to hoax

character · Etymology 2

(historical dictionaries only) to be talkative; to nag

character · Etymology 3

a surname

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