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綢
简 绸 · 繁 綢Mandarin · pinyin chóu
Meanings
- (light) silk
- Classifier: 匹 pǐ
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2 · chou2
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- silk cloth; satin damask
- (literary) to bind; to wind around; to wrap around
- (Xiamen Hokkien) to strain liquid (using silk cloth or finely woven gauze)
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to remove dregs which is let to precipitate and float on water (when refining kudzu starch, etc.)
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