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賤

简贱 · 繁賤

Mandarin · pinyin jiàn

inexpensive
lowly
despicable
(bound form) (humble) my

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贱: jiàn · mean, low; cheap, worthless

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4 · jian4

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cheap; inexpensive
lowly; low-ranking; poor; plebeian
bad; inferior; poor
mean; base; despicable; obnoxious
(colloquial, derogatory) mean, bitchy, annoying
(humble) my
(Min) naughty; restless
to look down upon; to despise
to hate; to detest
a surname, Jian

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