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突
Mandarin · pinyin tū
Meanings
- to dash
- to move forward quickly
- to bulge
- to protrude
- to break through
- to rush out
- sudden
- Taiwan pr. tú
Characters in this entry
- 突
- tū · suddenly, abruptly, unexpectedly
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Mandarin tones
1 · tu1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
dat6 · duk1
Cantonese word readings for 突. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
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- to dash forward; to break through; to charge
- suddenly; abruptly; unexpectedly
- to stick out; to protrude
- (historical) flue; chimney
- (onomatopoeia) pit-a-pat (tapping sounds)
- (onomatopoeia) chugging (of machine noise)
- tumor-like growth (in organisms)
- (abbreviation, alt-of) short for 突尼斯 (Tūnísī, “Tunisia”)
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to go against; to offend; to affront
- (Cantonese) to be in excess; to have extra
- (Cantonese) with excess
- (obsolete) to penetrate; to pierce
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- Used in the place name 趵突泉, a famous spring in Jinan, Shandong, China.
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