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橡皮擦xiàng pí cā
eraser
Definitions
Chinese > English | ||
橡皮擦 | xiàngpícā | |
1. n. eraser (tool used to erase marks left by a pencil); rubber | ||
English > Chinese | ||
eraser | ||
1. 橡皮擦 | ||
Components | ||
橡 | xiàng | |
1. Acorn (the fruit of the oak tree). | ||
2. A tree in the genus Quercus. | ||
皮 | pí | |
1. skin; peel; shell | ||
甩皮 - to have flaky skin; to have peeling skin | ||
樹皮 - bark | ||
香蕉 皮 - banana peel | ||
2. hide; leather | ||
皮鞋 - leather shoes | ||
3. wrapper; cover; skin | ||
餃子zi 皮 - jiaozi wrapper | ||
4. surface; top part | ||
水皮 - water surface | ||
5. rubber | ||
6. thin sheet | ||
鐵皮 - iron sheet | ||
7. outer; superficial | ||
8. sticky; glutinous | ||
9. soggy; non-crispy | ||
10. naughty; disobedient | ||
11. thick-skinned | ||
12. pico- (SI unit prefix) | ||
13. (Cantonese, colloquial) ten thousand dollars | ||
14. (Cantonese) Short for 皮費, operation expense | ||
擦 | cā | |
1. to rub | ||
2. to be close to; to be near | ||
3. to wipe; to scour; to scrub; to erase | ||
把 黑板 擦 乾gān淨 - to wipe the blackboard clean - | ||
擦 嗮 啲 錯字 - to erase all the incorrect characters - | ||
4. to spread (paste etc.); to apply | ||
5. to shred (melons and fruits) | ||
6. (slang) Alternative form of 肏 (to fuck) | ||
7. utensil for rubbing (e.g., eraser, shoe polish) | ||
黑板擦 - blackboard eraser - | ||
8. (Taiwanese Hokkien) hanging scroll; wall hanging (a scroll that unrolls vertically for hanging on a wall) | ||
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xiàng pí cā
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