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載

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Mandarin · pinyin zǎi#

to record in writing
to carry (i.e. publish in a newspaper etc)
Taiwan pr. zài
year

Mandarin · pinyin zài#

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载: zài · load; carry; transport, convey

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3 · zai3

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zoi2 · zoi3 · zoi6

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character

to ride; to travel (by); to take
to carry; to hold; to be loaded with; to transport; to deliver; to escort; to accompany (to a certain place)
to bear (the weight of); to support; to hold up; to uphold; to sustain
to be charged with; to assume (responsibility)
to put into force; to come into effect
to set out; to display
to be in a certain condition
to offer sacrifices to gods or ancestors
to begin; to start
to decorate; to deck out
(in the form of 載…載…) Indicating simultaneous, interspersed, or continually repeated actions.
as well as; also
to be full of; to fill (the road); to be all over
(colloquial) short for 下載 (“to download”)
vehicle; car; ship
things loaded; loads
affair; cause; undertaking
Classifier for amount loaded by one chariot.
(Eastern Min) would rather; rather

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to record; to put down in writing (i.e. “to be conveyed”)
to describe; to depict

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Classifier for years.
(numeral) hundred tredecillion (10⁴⁴)

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