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鹹

简咸 · 繁鹹

Mandarin · pinyin xián

salted
salty
stingy
miserly

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咸: xián · together; all, completely; united; hexagram ䷞

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

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salty; briny
(Southern Min) stingy; miserly
(Southern Min) rice topping; viand
(Teochew, of clothes) dirty; unwashed
(Cantonese, Hailufeng Min) erotic; pornographic; obscene
(Yangjiang Yue) salt

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