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蠡
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- 蠡
- lí · lǐ · wood-boring insect; bore into wood
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Mandarin tones
2 · li2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
lai4 · lai5 · lo4
Cantonese word readings for 蠡. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
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- (literary) gourd ladle
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- (obsolete) to wear out
- (～縣) Li County (a county of Hebei, China)
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- (obsolete) alternative form of 蠃
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