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大方
Mandarin · pinyin dà fāng#
Meanings · dà fāng
- expert
- scholar
- mother earth
- a type of green tea
Mandarin · pinyin dà fang#
Meanings · dà fang
- generous
- magnanimous
- stylish
- in good taste
- easy-mannered
- natural and relaxed
Mandarin · pinyin Dà fāng#
Meanings · Dà fāng
- see 大方縣 Dà fāng Xiàn
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4–1 · da4 fang1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
daai6 fong1
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noun
- (literary) expert; master; scholar
- (traditional Chinese medicine) large formula; potent prescription
- (literary) distinguished family
- (literary) earth; world
- (literary) basic rule
- name for a variety green tea grown mainly in Anhui and Zhejiang provinces
adj
- generous; liberal; magnanimous
- natural and unaffected
- in good taste; tasteful; stylish
name
- (～縣) Dafang County (a county of Guizhou, China)
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