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過冷河

简过冷河 · 繁過冷河

Cantonese · source Jyutpinggwo3 laang5 ho4

rinse cooked food with cold water (spoken)

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Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.

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Reading & tones

gwo33 · mid levellaang55 · low risingho44 · low falling

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Same syllable, six tones

gwo戈gwo1spear 果gwo2fruit 过gwo3to crossgwo4—gwo5—gwo6—

laanglaang1—laang2—laang3—laang4—冷laang5coldlaang6—

ho呵ho1to scold 可ho2canho3—河ho4riverho5—贺ho6to congratulate

Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.

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Written characters

過冷河过

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: guo4 leng3 he2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

gwo3 laang5 ho2

Cantonese word readings for 過冷河. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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verb

(cooking) to rinse in cold water after boiling
(Cantonese, figuratively, verb-object) to swim or bathe in cold water when one is hot
(Cantonese, figuratively, verb-object) to briefly go into a building with air conditioning during hot weather
(Cantonese, figuratively, verb-object) to go through a "sanitization period"; to go through a "cooling period"; to go through a period in which one is prohibited from engaging in a similar activity, job, task, etc

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