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- 丁 tin1.
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- 丁香
- cloves; lit. nail spice, (from the old meaning of the character).
- 好多人丁
- how many persons?
- 成丁
- to come of age.
- 丁憂
- a son mourning for his father (official).
- 家丁 and 門丁
- servants and door keepers.
- 兵丁
- soldiers.
- 他兩個的力量丁對
- they are about matched in strength.
- 丁梆兩句
- they squabbled a bit.
- 丁年
- "tin" year, i.e, the year in the cycle in which "tin" occurs.
- 七 tsʻi5, tsʻie5.
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- 七百
- seven hundred.
- 第七本
- the seventh volume.
- 燒七
- to burn cash paper after a death every seventh day till the 40th day.
- 他在那裏說七說八的
- he just talked a lot of nonsense there.
2
- 丈 chang4.
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- 一丈大
- ten feet long; a Chinese yard.
- 好多丈尺
- what is the measurement?
- 丈田
- to measure fields.
- 丈夫
- a husband.
- 大丈夫
- an able man.
- 老丈人
- wife's father.
- 下 shia4.
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- 棹子底下
- under the table.
- 在下面
- on the lower side.
- 下等的貨
- an inferior class of goods.
- 下民
- the vulgar classes.
- 下半天
- after-noon.
- 下月
- next month.
- 快快下來
- come down quickly.
- 把瓦下下來
- take down the files off the house.
- 下馬
- to dismount from a horse.
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