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河蟹

Mandarin · pinyin hé xiè

river crab
Internet censorship (pun on "harmonious" 和諧 hé xié, which is blocked by the great firewall of China)

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河: hé · river; stream; the Yellow River
蟹: xiè · crab

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2–4 · he2 xie4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

ho4 haai5

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

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noun

river crab; freshwater crab (Classifier: 隻／只 m)

verb

(Mainland China, neologism, pun, slang) alternative form of 和諧 /和谐 (héxié, “to censor; to enforce censorship”)

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