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料

Mandarin · pinyin liào

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料: liào · consider, conjecture; materials, ingredients

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4 · liao4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

liu2 · liu6

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

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character

to anticipate; to predict; to foresee; to expect
to oversee; to manage; to deal with
material; matter; substance
ingredient; constituent; component
material (person or thing suited for a certain purpose); makings
a unit of displacement for naval vessels
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(Penang Hokkien) sugar in drink

character

(alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 撩 (“to tease; to provoke”)

character

(Hakka) alternative form of 嫽

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