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管道

Mandarin · pinyin guǎn dào

tubing
pipeline
(fig.) channel
means

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管: guǎn · pipe, tube, duct; woodwind music
道: dào · path, road, street; method, way

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3–4 · guan3 dao4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

gun2 dou6

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noun

(literal) pipeline; duct
(figurative) means (especially of communication); channel
(computing) pipe (mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input)

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