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KᴺUI KUN KʽUN KÙN

Kⁿui.

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A large chest; a press with shelves and doors; exhausted.
3
A box; a press; a shop; counter.
3
Chief town of a district; the officer who presides over it.

Kun.

-1
A petticoat; lower part of a dress.
1
Many persons; an army; 12,500 men.
1
A chief; prince; king; to rule; honorable; virtuous.
2
Imperial raiment; court dresses.
2
Flowing water; moving rapidly; rolling; to roll.
2
A large fish.
-3
A principality.
3-
A stick; a staff; a rod.

Kʽun.

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A flock of sheep; a company of persons; to accord.
1
The earth; inferior; submissive.
1
An elder brother; to take precedence; altogether.
1
A fabulous mountain in central Asia.
1
The spawn of fish; a very large fish.
1
To cut or shave off the hair; a leafless tree.
2
A round granary; a place to collect grain.
2
To beat and bind; to make firm; well made.
2
The two sideposts of a door or gate; to finish; close.
2
To tie up; bind; weave.
2
Posts of a gate; apartments for the women.
2
A species of deer very timid.
2
Pressed by poverty or want; embarrassed; enfeebled.
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Fatigued; exhausted; poor; weak; to weary; repress.

Kùn.

1
A piece of cloth; a napkin.
1
An axe; a catty; Chinese pound; to examine.
1
The root of a tree; radical; the source or origin of.
1
The heel of the foot.
1
Equal; equally; all alike; to equalise; blend.
1
Thirty catties weight; to make, as a potter; nature.
1
Tendons; strong muscular fibres; strong and nervous.