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垂
Mandarin · pinyin chuí
Meanings
- to hang (down)
- droop
- dangle
- bend down
- hand down
- bequeath
- nearly
- almost
- to approach
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- 垂
- chuí · let down; suspend, hand; down
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Mandarin tones
2 · chui2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
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Cantonese word readings for 垂. 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.
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- to suspend; to hang (down); bend (down)
- to drip, to shed (tears)
- to hand down, to bequeath, to transmit (something abstract, such as a message or tradition) to one’s successors or aftercomers
- nearly; almost
- to approach
- (Teochew) listless
- (Teochew) wilted
- (obsolete) difficult; hard
- (obsolete) hardly; harshly
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