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稔

Mandarin · pinyin rěn

(literary) ripe grain; ripe; harvest; year
(literary) very familiar with; well acquainted with

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稔: rěn · ripe grain; harvest; to know, be familiar with

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3 · ren3

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

jam5 · nam5 · nim1

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

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character · Etymology 1

year
(of crops, grains) to ripen; ripe; mature; fully-grown
Classifier for number of crops grown in a year: crop; harvest
to accumulate in the course of time; to collect; to pile up
to be familiar with; to know
usually; normally
beautiful
(alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 飪 /饪 (rèn, “to steam (till cooked)”)

character · Etymology 2

(Cantonese) alternative form of 棯 (nim1, “rose myrtle”)

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