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網羅

简网罗 · 繁網羅

Mandarin · pinyin wǎng luó

net for fishing or bird catching
(fig.) fetters
to snare (a valuable new team member etc)
to bring together under the one umbrella

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网: wǎng · net; network; Kangxi radical 122
罗: luó · net for catching birds; gauze

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3–2 · wang3 luo2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

mong5 lo4

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

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noun

net for fishing or bird-catching
(figurative) net-like thing; trap; shackles
(figurative) net of justice; long arm of the law

verb

(literary) to catch with a net
to seek from all places; to include all things; to gather; to enlist

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