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首推

Mandarin · pinyin shǒu tuī

to regard as the foremost
to name as a prime example
to implement for the first time

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首: shǒu · head; first; leader, chief; a poem; Kangxi radical 185
推: tuī · push, expel; push forward

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3–1 · shou3 tui1

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sau2 teoi1

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