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風水

简风水 · 繁風水

Mandarin · pinyin fēng shuǐ

feng shui
geomancy

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風: fēng · wind; air; manners, atmosphere; Kangxi radical 182
水: shuǐ · water, liquid, lotion, juice
风: fēng · wind; air; manners, atmosphere

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1–3 · feng1 shui3

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

fung1 seoi2

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noun

(literally) wind and water; wind and rain
feng shui (a Chinese system of geomancy about the ideal topography, geography, and spatial arrangement of things at a place)
(Hakka, Southern Min, Puxian Min) tomb (Classifier: 穴 h mn-t)
(Zhejiang Wu) typhoon

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