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莊子
简 庄子 · 繁 莊子Characters in this entry
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1–5 · zhuang1 zi5
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
zong1 zi2
Cantonese word readings for 莊子. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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noun
- village; hamlet (Classifier: 座)
name
- Zhuangzi (an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States Period)
- Zhuangzi (an ancient Chinese collection of anecdotes and fables, one of the foundational texts of Taoism, traditionally attributed to the philosopher)
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