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飾
简 饰 · 繁 飾Mandarin · pinyin shì
Meanings
- decoration
- ornament
- to decorate
- to adorn
- to hide
- to conceal (a fault)
- excuse (to hide a fault)
- to play a role (in opera)
- to impersonate
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4 · shi4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
cik1 · sik1
Cantonese word readings for 飾. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- to decorate; to adorn
- ornament; decorations; adornments
- to cover up; to deceive
- to play the role of
- to polish
- 61st tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "embellishment" (𝍂)
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