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U+5625, 嘥
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5625

[U+5624]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5626]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 30 +11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 口竹人人 (RHOO), composition)

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 206, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 1, page 677, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+5625

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation


Verb

  1. (Cantonese) to waste

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 浪費 (“to waste; to squander”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 浪費
Mandarin Beijing 浪費糟蹋、糟踐
Taiwan 浪費糟蹋
Harbin 浪費糟蹋、糟盡
Wuhan 浪費糟蹋、拋撒
Cantonese Guangzhou 、嘥撻
Hong Kong
Yangjiang 、嘥撻
Hakka Miaoli (N. Sixian) 打爽
Liudui (S. Sixian) 打爽、浪核
Hsinchu (Hailu) 打爽
Dongshi (Dabu) 打爽
Zhuolan (Raoping) 打爽
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 打爽
Min Bei Jian'ou 糟蹋
Min Dong Fuzhou 、作蹋
Min Nan Quanzhou 拍損
Xiamen 拍損
Zhangzhou 拍損
Taipei 拍損
Kaohsiung 拍損
Wu Wenzhou 浪費

Derived terms

Adjective

  1. (Cantonese) a waste of resources
  2. (Cantonese) wasteful; tending to waste resources