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噴

简喷 · 繁噴

Mandarin · pinyin pēn#

to spout; to spurt; to spray; to puff
(slang) to criticize scathingly (esp. online)

Mandarin · pinyin pèn#

(of a smell) strong
peak season (of a crop)
(classifier for the ordinal number of a crop, in the context of multiple harvests)

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喷: pēn · spurt, blow out, puff out

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

fan5 · pan1 · pan3

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

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to spurt; to gush; to jet out
to spray
(colloquial, slang) to angrily rebuke or scold
(colloquial, slang, vulgar) to squirt
(of smell) strong; fragrant
(colloquial) busy season (of something)
Classifier for the number of times a plant blooms, bears fruits, ripens or is harvested.

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(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to play a wind instrument

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