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遑
Mandarin · pinyin huáng
Meanings
- leisure
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- 遑
- huáng · leisure, leisurely; hurry about
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Mandarin tones
2 · huang2
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Cantonese word readings for 遑. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
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- (literary) free time; leisure; spare time
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) hurried; hasty
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) how; how can (in rhetorical questions)
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 徨 (huáng)
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 惶 (huáng, “frightened; terrified”)
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