揈
Meanings · feng6
- to fling
Meanings · fing6
- to swing; to splash
Meanings · gwang1
- chasing away
Meanings · fang4
- to hit; to pound
Meanings · fang4
- to beat someone with a fist or a stick
Meanings · fing6
- to wave about
- to sway
- to dance crazily
- to behave in a wild manner
- to spend money lavishly
Meanings · gwang1
- to drive away
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Reading difference from Unihan
- 揈 has the reading feng6 here; Unihan’s citation reading is fang4. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 揈 feng6 as its own entry.
Computed by zimai: each syllable of the CC-Canto word reading is compared with Unihan 17.0.0 kCantonese for its character. The comparison does not say why a reading differs (a changed tone, 變音, a reading tied to one meaning, or a source variant).
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: . It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 9 senses · 4 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
fang3 · fang4 · fing6 · gwang1
Cantonese word readings for 揈. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character · Etymology 1
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, onomatopoeia) the sound of a strike.
- to drive away; to expel
- to sell
- (Southern Min) to slap (someone on their face)
character · Etymology 1
- (literary) to strike; to beat
- (Cantonese) to hit someone hard (with a fist, a stick, etc.)
character · Etymology 2
- (Cantonese) to sway; to swing
- (Cantonese) to shake
- (Cantonese, figurative) to spend (money) lavishly
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