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ài

Chinese mugwort or wormwood

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āo

concave; depressed; sunken; indented; female (connector etc)

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old variant of 拔[ba2]

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denote a sound or sharp noise (gunfire etc)

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to peel

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bái

white

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bàn

half

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bāo

to cover

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běi

north

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běn

(bound form) root; stem

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certainly

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biàn

(old) cap (garment)

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biān

side

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bǐng

third of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]

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Kangxi radical 105, known as 登字頭|登字头[deng1 zi4 tou2]

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cloth

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used in the transliteration of the names of organic compounds porphyrin 卟啉[bu3 lin2] and porphin 卟吩[bu3 fen1]

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Chinese character

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book

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chì

to scold

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chì

to blame

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chú

to mow or cut grass

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chù

old variant of 處|处[chu3]

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chù

to reside

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chū

to go out; to come out

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cóng

cluster

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cōng

hurried

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to beat

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dài

to substitute

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dàn

(literary) dawn; daybreak

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dàng

Chinese character

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dāo

garrulous

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dāo

grieved

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foundation

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diàn

lightning

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diāo

to hold with one's mouth (as a smoker with a cigarette or a dog with a bone)

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dīng

to sting or bite (of mosquito, bee etc)

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dōng

east

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dōng

(onom.) beating a drum

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duì

right; correct

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è

second-round simplified character for 餐[can1]

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ěr

thus

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to send out

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fán

Chinese character

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fàn

to violate

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fǎn

to take

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féng

to gallop

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(literary) not

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to pay

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little (dialect)

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gān

surname Gan

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gōng

meritorious deed or service

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ancient

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guǎ

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guā

melon; gourd; squash

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guàn

two tufts of hair

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guǐ

traitor

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氿guǐ

mountain spring

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guī

to return

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hán

name of an ancient river

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hàn

Han ethnic group

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hāng

to ram; to tamp

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hào

roar

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cereal

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hóng

great

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hòng

strife

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(classical particle similar to 於|于[yu2]) in

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huì

plants

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huì

to remit

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to record

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to hit

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grumble

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(bound form) hungry

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jiǎ

first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]

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jiā

to add

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jiān

narrow

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jiào

to shout

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jiāo

Chinese character

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jié

joint; node

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jié

to accuse

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jīn

Chinese character

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jiōng

archaic variant of 坰[jiong1]

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jiù

Chinese character

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jiù

old

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jiū

to gather together

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sentence

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to stop

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kān

to print

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kāo

(literary) buttocks; rump; coccyx; sacrum

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(prefix) can; may; able to; -able

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kòu

to knock

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kuàng

surname Kuang

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lán

orchid (蘭花|兰花 Cymbidium goeringii)

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happy

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(used in place names)

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strict

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to stand

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gift

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liáo

short name for Liaoning 遼寧|辽宁[Liao2 ning2] province

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lìng

to order

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lìng

other

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lóng

Chinese dragon; loong

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(old) rice vessel

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mài

put forth effort

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máng

Mt Mang at Luoyang in Henan, with many Han, Wei and Jin dynasty royal tombs

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máo

spear

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mǎo

mortise (slot cut into wood to receive a tenon)

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men

plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals

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miè

to extinguish or put out

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mín

(bound form) the people

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mǐn

(bound form) dish; vessel; shallow container

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tip

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used in 仫佬族[Mu4 lao3 zu2], Mulao ethnic group of Guangxi

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eye

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mother

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nǎi

breast

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nǎi

Chinese character

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sick

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Buddhist nun

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niǎo

bird

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níng

abbr. for Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 寧夏回族自治區|宁夏回族自治区[Ning2xia4 Hui2zu2 Zi4zhi4qu1]

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slave

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leather

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to prepare

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foot

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grand

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piē

protium 1H

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píng

flat

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not

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to throw oneself at

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finished

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qiān

thousand (banker's anti-fraud numeral)

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qiān

road leading north and south

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qiǎo

opportunely

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qiě

and

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qióng

mound

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qiú

prisoner

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qiú

used in 犰狳[qiu2yu2]

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qiū

mound

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to go

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rǎn

edge of a tortoiseshell

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ràng

to yield

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rèn

(measure)

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rēng

to throw

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róu

trample

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three (colloquial equivalent of 三個|三个)

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shàn

to mock

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shǎn

to dodge

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shēn

to extend

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shèng

(bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral virtue, skill etc)

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shēng

to be born

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shí

rock

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shì

life

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shì

to serve as an official

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shì

market

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shì

to show

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shǐ

history

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shǐ

arrow

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shī

to lose

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shù

method

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shuài

(bound form) commander-in-chief

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shuǎi

to throw

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shuǐ

archaic variant of 水[shui3]

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four

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silk

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to take charge of

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he; him (used for either sex when the sex is unknown or unimportant)

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it

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tái

platform

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tàn

to sigh

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tǎo

to invite

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tāo

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tián

field

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tīng

sandbar

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tóng

Chinese character

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tóu

head

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to stick out; protruding; convex; male (connector etc)

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tuō

nonstandard simplified variant of 託|托[tuo1]

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wài

outside

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wǎn

to turn over when asleep

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wǎng

net (Kangxi radical 122)

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wèi

not yet

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affair

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fifth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]

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used in 阢隉|阢陧[wu4nie4]

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forty

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xiān

immortal

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xiě

to write

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xiōng

elder brother

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xuán

black

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xué

cave

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xùn

to teach; to train; to admonish

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xùn

(bound form) to ask; to inquire

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to crush together (in a crowd)

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yāng

center

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line of business

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leaf

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apparatus

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used in 仡佬族[Ge1 lao3 zu2], Gelao or Klau ethnic group of Guizhou

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to comment on

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the left-radical form of Kangxi radical 145, 衣[yi1]

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yìn

to print

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yòng

to use

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yǒng

forever

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yóu

to follow

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yóu

used in 曱甴[yue1zha2]

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yòu

(bound form) right; right-hand side

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yòu

young

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surname Yu

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jade

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to drive

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yuè

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yuē

used in 曱甴[yue1zha2]

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yùn

pregnant

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(literary) to encircle; to go around; to surround

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zǎi

(bound form) (of domestic animals or fowl) young

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zhá

thin piece of wood used a writing tablet (in ancient China)

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zhà

at first

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zhàn

to take possession of

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zhàng

weaponry

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zhào

to call together

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zhèng

straight

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zhěng

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zhī

goblet

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zhī

only; merely; just

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zhī

juice

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zhú

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zhǔ

owner

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zuǒ

left

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