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sau3
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[1] elegant; beautiful; graceful [2] outstanding; excellent; standout [3] clever; intelligent; brilliant [4] [普] show [English transliteration] [5] (of grain crops) put forth flowers or ears Default PoS:  Additional PoS:   Stroke count: 7
Level: 3
Radical: 禾 (#115)
This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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| This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008 | |
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優秀
jau1 sau3 = outstanding; excellent
秀麗
sau3 lai6 = beautiful; pretty
脫口秀
tyut3 hau2 sou3 = a talkshow (as loanword)
華秀
waa4 sau3 = [n] an extremely greedy person
閨秀
gwai1 sau3 = a well-educated girl brought up in a good family; elegant society ladies
作秀
zok3 sau3 = [n][台] a show (as loanword)
新秀
san1 sau3 = a rising star (e.g., in entertainment, sports, etc.)
越秀公園
jyut6 sau3 gung1 jyun4 = Yuexiu Park
曼秀雷敦
maan6 sau3 leoi4 deon1 = Mentholatum
鄭秀文
zeng6 sau3 man4 = Sammi ChengSee all 18 compounds |
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Decimal representation of this word: 秀
Unicode code for this character: U+79c0 (off-site link)
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/2741/]秀[/url][/big]
HTML Code to link to this word:
<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/2741/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">秀</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 秀
Unicode code for this character: U+79c0 (off-site link)
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- : the Mandarin pronunciation of the word in pinyin.
- a detailed description of all the meanings
- the number of strokes needed to write the character correctly
- our arbitrarily assigned difficulty level
- a smaller version of the character in a computerised, printed font, along with the PRC simplified version if applicable
- a list of characters which look similar and are therefore possible sources of confusion (where relevant)
- a list of compound words that use this character, ordered by difficulty level.
(we would really appreciate new volunteers to add some more compound words to the database so please post to the CantoDict forum if you would like to spend an occasional 10 mins or so helping)
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