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(chicken) egg / hen's egg / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
hen / don't know (humorous slang mimicking Cantonese 唔知, Jyutping: m4 zi1)
HSK 6
(coll.) (of a hen) to sit in the nest to lay or hatch eggs / (fig.) (of a person) to be laid up from illness or exhaustion / (fig.) (of a machine, vehicle etc) to break down; to be out of commission
lit. (a place where) birds don't defecate and hens don't lay eggs (idiom) / fig. god-forsaken / remote and desolate
(dialect) hen
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *莱* | 莱* | *莱
name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc) / Chenopodium album
water-hen / gallinula
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鷕* | 鷕* | *鷕
cry of hen pheasant
(coll.) hen's egg
fat hen (Chenopodium album), edible annual plant
laying hen
(dialect) hen; prostitute / (Tw) (adjective) interfering; nosy; (noun) busybody (from Taiwanese 家婆, Tai-lo pr. [ke-pô])
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *埘* | 埘* | *埘
hen roost
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *藜* | 藜* | *藜
name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc) / Chenopodium album
free-range chicken / (dialect) hen / cowardly
(bird species of China) hen harrier (Circus cyaneus)
laying hen


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