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魁
Mandarin · pinyin kuí
Meanings
- chief
- head
- outstanding
- exceptional
- stalwart
Characters in this entry
- 魁
- kuí · chief; leader; best; monstrous
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Mandarin tones
2 · kui2
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Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
fui1
Cantonese word readings for 魁. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- first; leading; best
- chief; leader; head
- tall and big; imposing; stalwart
- outstanding; prominent; exceptional
- (literary) soup ladle; dipper; spoon
- (literary, astronomy) Dubhe (the first star in the Big Dipper, farthest from the handle)
- (literary, astronomy) Dubhe (the first star in the Big Dipper, farthest from the handle) — (literary, astronomy) the four stars comprising the bowl of the Big Dipper
- (obsolete) mound; small hill
- (obsolete) blood clam
- a surname
character
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 塊 /块 (kuài, “alone; solitary”)
character
- (Hokkien) used in 魁頭／魁头 (khe-thâu)
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