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跑

Mandarin · pinyin páo#

(of an animal) to paw (the ground)

Mandarin · pinyin pǎo#

to run
to run away
to escape
to run around (on errands etc)
(of a gas or liquid) to leak or evaporate
(verb complement) away
off

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跑: pǎo · run, flee, leave in hurry

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2 · pao2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

paau2 · paau4

Cantonese word readings for 跑. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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character · Etymology 1

to run
to run away; to flee
(dialectal) to walk; to stroll; to go to
to rush about; to make the rounds; to be busy
to leak; to evaporate
to go away; to be gone; to be lost
(computing, colloquial) to run (a program)
(Xiamen, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou Hokkien) well-liked; popular
(Taiwanese Hokkien) to steal and run away

character · Etymology 2

(of an animal) to paw the earth

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