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積
简 积 · 繁 積Mandarin · pinyin jī
Meanings
- to amass; to accumulate; to store up
- (math.) product (the result of multiplication)
- (TCM) constipation; indigestion
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
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Cantonese word readings for 積. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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- to store up crops; to store cereal crops
- to accumulate; to amass; to store; to gather
- to hold in store; to store up (for future use); to be latent
- to stagnate; to become stagnant
- to add up; to sum up to
- accumulated goods
- (traditional Chinese medicine) indigestion
- (mathematics) short for 乘積/乘积 (chéngjī, “product (in a multiplication)”)
- long-standing; long
- habitual; inveterate
- sixtieth (60th) tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "accumulation" (𝍁)
- (Cantonese, card games) jack; knave (Classifier: 隻/只 c)
- (Cantonese) alternative form of 唧 (“jack; to jack”)
- (Hokkien) to suffer from indigestion (of children)
- (archaic) alternative form of 漬 /渍 (zì, “to soak”)
- (archaic) alternative form of 績 /绩 (jì, “achievement”)
- (archaic) alternative form of 迹 (jì, “movement”)
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