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甜

Mandarin · pinyin tián

sweet
(fig.) pleasant; endearing; lovely

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甜: tián · sweet, sweetness

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

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

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sweet; sugary; honeyed
(figurative) pleasant; comfortable; happy
(figurative, of sleep) sound
(dialectal) bland; tasteless; not salty
(dialectal) delicious; tasty
(neologism, of a price) cheap; inexpensive
(figurative) romantic
(Hong Kong Cantonese) euphemistic form of 鹹 /咸 (haam⁴, “erotic”)

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