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鞠

Mandarin · pinyin jū#

to incline (one's torso); to bow
leather ball used in ancient times
(literary) to bring up; to rear
Taiwan pr. jú

Mandarin · pinyin Jū#

surname Ju

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鞠: jū · bow, bend; rear, raise, nourish

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(historical) leather ball used in games
to bend; to curve
to bow
bow
to rear; to raise; to nourish
young; childish
to warn; to admonish
(alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 鞫 (“to interrogate; to exhaust”)
(alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 菊 (jú, “chrysanthemum”)
a surname

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(Ancient, alt-of) Ancient form of 麴 /曲 (“starter with brewer's yeast”)

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