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收拾
Mandarin · pinyin shōu shi
Meanings
- to put in order
- to tidy up
- to pack
- to repair
- (coll.) to sort sb out
- to fix sb
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1–5 · shou1 shi5
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
sau1 sap6
Cantonese word readings for 收拾. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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verb
- to tidy (a table, room, etc.); to put in order; to clean up; to clear; to pack (one’s bags)
- to tidy (a table, room, etc.); to put in order; to clean up; to clear; to pack (one’s bags) — to clean up a fish to be ready for cooking (e. g. to kill a fish if not dead, remove its guts, wash it and remove scales and fins if necessary)
- to mend; to repair
- (colloquial) to deal with; to punish; to discipline
- (colloquial) to settle a score with; to kill or harm; to wipe out
- (archaic, transitive) to free oneself of; to extricate oneself from; to relieve oneself of; to get rid of (sorrow, sadness)
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