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纖

简纤 · 繁纖

Mandarin · pinyin xiān

fine
delicate
minute

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纤: xiān · fine, delicate; minute; graceful

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

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

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character

finely-woven silk
fine; delicate
minute
graceful; slender
stingy; frugal
fiber
(Buddhism) the number 10⁻⁷

character

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to stab; to prick
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) sharp; pointed
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 籤 /签 (qiān, “bamboo slips”)

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