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  pit3   jyutping
  pie1 pie3   pinyin
(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

Default PoS: verb Additional PoS: nounclassifier
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Stroke count: 15
Level: 3
Radical: (#64)

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

This word has been viewed 5869 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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detail  pit3 lat1   = get rid of
detail  zo2 pit3 zi2  zuo3 pie3 zi5 = left-handed
detail  jat1 pit3 seoi2   = $1000
detail  ji6 pit3 gai1   = a split mustache with two strips of hair above the upper lip (八字鬍子)
detail  sap6 waak6 dou1 mei6 jau5 jat1 pit3  shi2 hua4 dou1 wei4 you3 yi4 pie3 = There is not the slightest sign of anything happening yet
detail  pit3 pong4 jau6  pie3 pang2 you4 = Kangxi radical 34 (go) (夂)
detail  pit3 soek3 jau6   = Kangxi radical 35 (go slowly) (夊)
detail  saam1 pit3  san1 pie3 = Kangxi radical 59 (bristle) (彡)
detail  pit3 dai1  pie3 di1 = to abandon; to ditch; to desert; to dump
detail  pit3 yau4  pie1 you2 = to skim grease off while cooking
See all 11 compounds (CantoDict reports 10 compounds in total, which would seem to be an error - please report this on the CantoDict forum)

Showing 1 example containing 撇
detail 呢個復活節係咪北海道滑雪,重係十劃都未有一撇
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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