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剖腹藏珠
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die for the purpose of gain; disregard one's life to amass riches-cut one's stomach open in order to a hide a pearl inside Level: 3 This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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This word has been viewed 1 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by Michael 忠仔 on 13th Aug 2010 06:01 |
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Characters in this word:剖 fau2 pau2 - cut open; analyse腹 fuk1 - stomach; belly 藏 cong4 zong6 - hide; store; reserves; Tibet 珠 zyu1 - pearl; bead; drop |
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: the Cantonese pronunciation of the word in jyutping.
Also, CantoDict uses a unique "asterisk (*)" convention, to show readings such as jyu4*2. For more information please see CantoDict Tone Conventions.
: the Mandarin pronunciation of the word in pinyin (only if present).