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帶

简带 · 繁帶

Mandarin · pinyin dài

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带: dài · belt, girdle, band, strap, zone

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4 · dai4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

daai2 · daai3

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

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character · Etymology 1

belt; ribbon; tape (Classifier: 條／条 c)
tyre
zone; area; belt
cassette (Classifier: 餅／饼 c)
leucorrhoea
to take; to bring along; to carry
to do something incidentally
to lead; to head
to bear; to have
to have something attached
to contain; to carry
to drive; to spur on
to look after; to bring up
(Hokkien) to worry about; to care for
(Hokkien) to involve in trouble; to implicate
(Mainland China Internet slang) Pronunciation spelling of 大.

character · Etymology 2

(Hokkien, Hainanese) place
(Hainanese) where

character · Etymology 3

(Hokkien) alternative form of 紮 /扎 (chah, “to carry; to bring along”)

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