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棺材板
Mandarin · pinyin guān cai bǎn
Meanings
- wooden board used to make a coffin (also refers to the coffin itself); (fig.) (of a facial expression) grim; unsmiling
- coffin bread, a Taiwanese snack consisting of a thick slab of bread, fried or toasted, then hollowed out, filled with a thick stew, and capped with a "coffin lid" (slice of fried bread)
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1–5–3 · guan1 cai5 ban3
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gun1 coi4 baan2
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noun
- coffin bread (a snack from Taiwan)
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