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臘腸

简腊肠 · 繁臘腸

Mandarin · pinyin là cháng

sausage

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腸: Look up this written character
腊: là · year-end sacrifice; dried meat
肠: cháng · intestines; emotions; sausage

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4–2 · la4 chang2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

laap6 coeng2

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

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noun

Chinese sausage; lap cheong (Classifier: 根 m; 條／条 c; 孖 c)
(dialectal) sausage

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