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黃
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2 · huang2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
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Cantonese word readings for 黃. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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- yellow
- yolk
- (abbreviation, alt-of) short for 蟹黃／蟹黄 (xièhuáng)
- yellow; Far East Asian
- (colloquial) pornographic; lewd
- (colloquial) to fizzle out; to fall through
- (Cantonese) to let the cat out of the bag (to let a secret be known)
- (Hong Kong, politics) supportive of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement
- (Southern Min) to ripen
- (abbreviation, alt-of) short for 黃帝／黄帝 (Huángdì)
- (abbreviation, alt-of) short for 黃河／黄河 (Huáng Hé, “Yellow River”)
- a surname
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