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餓莩

简饿莩 · 繁餓莩

Mandarin · pinyin è piǎo

variant of 餓殍 è piǎo

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莩: fú · membrane lining inside of reed
饿: è · hungry; greedy for; hunger

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4–3 · e4 piao3

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

ngo6 piu5

Cantonese word readings for 餓莩. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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noun

(archaic) the corpse of someone who has died of starvation

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