條
简 条 · 繁 條Meanings
- strip
- item
- article
- clause (of law or treaty)
- classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)
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2 · tiao2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
tiu4 · tiu5
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- strip; slip
- twig; branch
- long and thin objects
- (of law or treaty) item; article; section; clause; condition
- informal note
- order
- (Teochew) settled; stable
- Classifier for long and thin objects or animals.
- Classifier for something that can be listed item by item, such as reasons, (pieces of) news, messages, advices, etc.
- Classifier for lives or minds.
- (dialectal Cantonese, Hakka, Southern Min) Classifier for songs.
- (Cantonese) Classifier for villages.
- (Cantonese, often derogatory) Classifier for people.
- (Cantonese) Classifier for consecutive digits.
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