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杖
Mandarin · pinyin zhàng
Meanings
- a staff
- a rod
- cane
- walking stick
- to flog with a stick (old)
Characters in this entry
- 杖
- zhàng · cane, walking stick
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Mandarin tones
4 · zhang4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
zoeng6
Cantonese word readings for 杖. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- walking stick
- staff; rod; cane; wand
- (historical) flogging with a stick
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to flog (a prisoner)
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to support; to prop
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to hold; to grasp
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 仗 (zhàng, “to rely on; to depend on”)
- (Eastern Min) Classifier for segments of sugarcane.
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