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鹹菜

简咸菜 · 繁鹹菜

Mandarin · pinyin xián cài

salted vegetables
pickles

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鹹: Look up this written character
菜: cài · vegetables; dish, order; food
咸: xián · together; all, completely; united; hexagram ䷞

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2–4 · xian2 cai4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

haam4 coi3

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noun

salted vegetable; pickle
(Guangzhou Cantonese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien, Taiwanese Hakka, Teochew) pickled mustard greens

adj

(figurative, of paper) crumpled

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