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狂瀾

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Cantonese · source Jyutpingkwong4 laan4

raging tides; roaring waves

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Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.

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Reading & tones

kwong44 · low fallinglaan44 · low falling

Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.

Reading difference from Unihan

狂 has the reading kwong4 here; Unihan’s citation reading is kong4. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 狂 kwong4 as its own entry.

Computed by zimai: each syllable of the CC-Canto word reading is compared with Unihan 17.0.0 kCantonese for its character. The comparison does not say why a reading differs (a changed tone, 變音, a reading tied to one meaning, or a source variant).

Same syllable, six tones

kwongkwong1—kwong2—扩kwong3enlargekwong4—kwong5—kwong6—

laanlaan1—laan2—laan3—兰laan4orchid 懒laan5lazy 烂laan6soft

Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.

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