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褊

Mandarin · pinyin biǎn

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褊: biǎn · cramped, narrow, crowded; mean

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3 · bian3

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bin2 · pin5

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(historical dictionaries only) tight-fitting (of clothing)
(literary) narrow and small; crowded
(literary) short; deficient
(literary) narrow-minded; lacking in experience
(literary) irritable; short-tempered
(literary) alternative form of 扁 (“flat”)

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only used in 褊褼 (“fluttering”)

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