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瘥
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- 瘥
- chài · to recover from any disease; an epidemic
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4 · chai4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
caai3 · co1 · co4
Cantonese word readings for 瘥. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- sickness, illness
- epidemic, plague
- defect
character · Etymology 2
- cure
- (literary or Eastern Min) to recover from an illness
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