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gu3
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[1] ancient; old; former; past; earlier; previous; antique [2] cause; reason [3] intentional; willful; on purpose; knowingly [4] [v] die [5] [n] incident; event; matter; happening [6] consequently; hence; therefore; [7] friend; acquaintance Stroke count: 9
Level: 3
Radical: 攴 (#66)
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| This character was last edited on 7th Apr 2008 | |
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故事
gu3 si6 = story
故意
gu3 ji3 = purposely; on purpose; deliberately
事故
si6 gu3 = accident
緣故
jyun4 gu3 = reason
故鄉
gu3 hoeng1 = one's native land; hometown, native place
故障
gu3 zoeng3 = glitch, breakdown, snag, fault, error
故此
gu3 ci2 = for this reason, on this account
鬼故事
gwai2 gu3*2 si6 = a ghost story
是必有故
si6 bit1 jau5 gu3 = there must be a reason國
講故事
gong2 gu3 si6 = to tell a story or a tale, taletellingSee all 29 compounds |
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Showing 1 example containing 故
唔使故意約埋，我哋兩個心有靈犀咖嘛 粵
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There's no need to make arrangement, both of us know what the other thinks. Legend 國 : Written Chinese only 粵 : Spoken Cantonese only |
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Decimal representation of this word: 故
Unicode code for this character: U+6545 (off-site link)
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/437/]故[/url][/big]
HTML Code to link to this word:
<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/437/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">故</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 故
Unicode code for this character: U+6545 (off-site link)
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