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槓
简 杠 · 繁 槓Mandarin · pinyin gàng
Meanings
- (old) coffin-bearing pole
- thick pole; bar; rod
- bold line; thick stroke
- to mark with a thick line
- to sharpen (a knife, razor etc)
- (slang) to argue; to be deliberately argumentative
- standard; criterion
- hyphen; dash
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4 · gang4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
gong3 · gung3 · lung5
Cantonese word readings for 槓. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- thick rod; thick pole
- (gymnastics) bar
- stout poles used to carry a coffin
- rod-shaped part of a machine
- thick line (Classifier: 道 m)
- to cross out; to strike out
- to whet
- to argue; to bicker
- (mahjong) kong
character · Etymology 2
- (Cantonese) alternative form of 籠 /笼 (“trunk; chest; large box”)
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