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感覺

简感觉 · 繁感覺

Mandarin · pinyin gǎn jué

feeling; impression; sensation
to feel; to perceive

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感: gǎn · feel, perceive, emotion
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觉: jué · to wake up from sleep; conscious

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3–2 · gan3 jue2

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gam2 gok3

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verb

to feel; to sense; to have a feeling that
to think (that); to believe (that); to be of the opinion that

noun

feeling (sensation; emotion; intuition) (Classifier: 個／个 m; 種／种 m)
sense (manner by which living beings perceive the physical world) (Classifier: 個／个 m; 種／种 m)

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