撇
Meanings · pit3
- leftfalling stroke (in Chinese characters)
- to leave or escape (Cantonese)
- to dump
Meanings · pit3
- to cast away
- to fling aside
- a type of stroke in Chinese character
- to skim off
- a quantifier for moustache
- to curl one's lip
- to flee
- to ditch someone
- a grand, a thousand dollars
- to discard
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.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 撇 piē CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto cast away; to fling aside
- 撇 piě CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto throw; to cast; left-slanting downward brush stroke (calligraphy)
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: pie1. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 18 senses · 1 Cantonese reading
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
pit3
Cantonese word readings for 撇. 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
- to discard; to abandon; to throw away
- to skim; to clear (a liquid) from the substance (oil, foam, etc.) floating on it
- to move the corners of one's mouth downward (to express disdain, disgust, distrust or unhappiness)
- (Chinese calligraphy) stroke that falls downwards towards the left (㇒)
- Classifier for things that look like the stroke ㇒; glancing actions or thin, slanted objects.
- (Cantonese, of rain) to move in a slanted direction
- (Cantonese) to leave (without concern)
- (Hakka) to flog the buttocks; to spank; to smack lightly with palm
- (Hokkien) skill; ability
- (Mainland China Hokkien) to drift with the wind
- (Xiamen and Taiwanese Hokkien) charming; fashionable; good-looking; smart
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to write a left falling stroke
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to write unseriously
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to turn one's head away
character · Etymology 2
- (Hakka) Used after a verb to indicate perfective aspect (action completion).
- (Hakka) Normally followed by 了 to mark a state change.
character · Etymology 3
- (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) to lightly scoop from the surface of something (oil, etc.)
- (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) to cut meat with a knife
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