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舞
Mandarin · pinyin wǔ
Meanings
- to dance
- to wield
- to brandish
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- 舞
- wǔ · dance, posture, prance; brandish
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Mandarin tones
3 · wu3
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
mou5
Cantonese word readings for 舞. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- to dance (move rhythmically)
- dance (performance art); dancing (Classifier: 個／个 m; 支 m)
- to dance with something in one's hands
- to wield; to brandish; to shake
- (literary or in compounds) to fly; to flutter
- (literary or in compounds) to play with
- (Cantonese, Hakka, Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) to mess with; to play with; to tease
- (Cantonese, Hokkien) to fiddle with; to be busy with; to handle; to operate
- a surname, Wu
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