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滾
简 滚 · 繁 滾Mandarin · pinyin gǔn
Meanings
- to boil
- to roll
- to take a hike
- Get lost!
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3 · gun3
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
gwan2
Cantonese word readings for 滾. 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.
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- to roll; to turn; to rotate
- (of a flood) to flow at great speed
- to boil (bubble and turn to vapour)
- (Cantonese, Gan, Hakka) boiling hot; scalding hot
- (dialectal Hakka) hot; high in temperature (in general)
- (chiefly as imperative, derogatory, colloquial, dismissal) to go away; to scram; to beat it; to get out
- to roll along or about (in snow or flour); to get bigger
- extremely; very
- (sewing) to use a narrow piece of cut fabric to create an edge
- (software engineering, colloquial) to rolling update
- a surname: Gun
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