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鐵馬
简 铁马 · 繁 鐵馬Mandarin · pinyin tiě mǎ
Meanings
- armored horse
- cavalry
- metal chimes hanging from eaves
- steel barricade
- (Tw) bike
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3–3 · tie3 ma3
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
tit3 maa5
Cantonese word readings for 鐵馬. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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noun
- (literary) armoured warhorse (Classifier: 匹 m)
- (literary, figurative) valiant cavalry
- metal chimes hanging from eaves
- (chiefly Taiwan, Malaysia, dated in Xiamen and Quanzhou Hokkien) bicycle (Classifier: 臺／台 m mn; 部 m; 匹 m)
- (chiefly Cantonese) mills barrier; crowd control barrier (made of metal) (Classifier: 個／个 c)
- (Hong Kong) police motorbike (Classifier: 輛／辆 m; 部 m c; 架 c)
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