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熨斗
tong3 dau2 |
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(n.) iron – to iron clothes with. (Note: 熨 is orig. pronounced /wan6/ but has since adopted the pronunciation of 燙 so that people can still pronounce "iron" as /tong3 dau2/ as they have always done, but can write it as the standard Chinese "熨斗".) Level: 3 Google Frequency: 567,000 This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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Characters in this word:熨 tong3 wan6 wat1 - iron, press (clothes)斗 dau2 - measurement unit for grains 2 compounds containing this word:電熨斗 - electric iron蒸氣熨斗 - a steam iron | ||
One Cantonese Homophone / Homophone Variant for this word:燙斗 tong3 dau2 = iron 粵 Legend 國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese. 粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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