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撇 (pit3) — meaning, pronunciation, examples

撇 (pit3, piē) — leftfalling stroke (in Chinese characters); to leave or escape (Cantonese); to dump; to cast away; to fling aside; a type of stroke in Chinese character; to skim off; a quantifier for moustache; to curl one's lip; to flee; to ditch someone; a grand, a thousand dollars; to discard

Classifier

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Usage

Level

beyond HSK

Related words

• 撇低 (pit3 dai1) — to ditch; to abandon
• 撇檔 (pit3 dong3) — Criminals found that things are going wrong, and they ran away
• 撇水片 (pit3 seoi2 pin2) — to skim a stone (in water)
• 撇甩 (pit3 lat1) — to get rid of
• 撇雨 (pit3 jyu5) — rain that is going 'sideways' due to strong winds.
• 撇嘢 (pit3 je5) — thousand dollars; bucks [colloquial]

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