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牛肉乾

简牛肉干 · 繁牛肉乾

Mandarin · pinyin niú ròu gān

dried beef; beef jerky

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牛: niú · cow, ox, bull; Kangxi radical 93; 9th lunar mansion, determinative star β Capricorni (Dabih)
肉: ròu · flesh; meat; Kangxi radical 130
乾: qián · gān · dry; warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male); trigram ☰; hexagram ䷀
干: gàn · oppose, offend; invade; dried

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2–4–1 · niu2 rou4 gan1

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ngau4 juk6 gon1

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noun

dried beef; beef jerky; bakkwa (Classifier: 塊／块 m c)
(Cantonese, figurative) parking ticket (legal summons) (Classifier: 張／张 c; 疊／叠 c)

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