撇 (pit3 | pie1 pie3 ) : cast aside; disregard

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撇

pit3

pie1 pie3

(jyutping) pit3, (pinyin) pie1
[1] cast aside; disregard; ignore; neglect
[2] skim off (cream etc)

(jyutping) pit3, (pinyin) pie3
[1] stroke made in the lower left direction in Chinese character
[2] throw; fling; cast; sling; toss
[3] [classifier] for brow, mustache etc that resemble the left-falling stroke
[4] curl one's lips; twitch one's mouth

(jyutping) pit3 [Cantonese only]
[1] run away; flee
[2] dump/ditch (a lover); get rid of
[3] a thousand dollars; a grand

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Stroke count: 15

Level: 3

Radical: 扌 (#64)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

撇

This word has been viewed 1 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 6th Jun 2010 03:03

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撇甩 pit3 lat1 = get rid of 粵

左撇子 zo2 pit3 zi2 zuo3 pie3 zi5 = left-handed 國

一撇水 jat1 pit3 seoi2 = $1000 粵

二撇雞 ji6 pit3 gai1 = a split mustache with two strips of hair above the upper lip (八字鬍子)

十劃都未有一撇 sap6 waak6 dou1 mei6 jau5 jat1 pit3 shi2 hua4 dou1 wei4 you3 yi4 pie3 = There is not the slightest sign of anything happening yet 粵

撇旁又 pit3 pong4 jau6 pie3 pang2 you4 = Kangxi radical 34 (go) (夂)

撇削又 pit3 soek3 jau6 = Kangxi radical 35 (go slowly) (夊)

三撇 saam1 pit3 san1 pie3 = Kangxi radical 59 (bristle) (彡)

撇低 pit3 dai1 pie3 di1 = to abandon; to ditch; to desert; to dump 粵

撇油 pit3 yau4 pie1 you2 = to skim grease off while cooking 粵

撇開 pit3 hoi1 pie1 kai1 = cast aside; ignore; disregard

Showing 1 example containing 撇

呢個復活節係咪去北海道滑雪,重係十劃都未有一撇。粵
It's still far too early to tell if we are going skiing in Hokkaido this Easter.
[In this sentence, the third character 都 in the idiom 十劃都未有一撇 could be moved three spaces up so that the latter half of the sentence would become 都重係十劃未有一撇. The meaning would remain the same. ]

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
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