| hose |
| 1. 长筒袜；软管; 水龙管 | |
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| 软 |
| 1. Simplified form of 軟 | |
| 管 |
| 1. (musical instrument) a cylindrical double-reed woodwind instrument made of bamboo or wood | |
| 2. (musical instrument, by extension) any wind instrument | |
| 3. (by extension) slender tubular hollow object; pipe; tube; duct; canal; valve; fistula | |
| 吸管 - straw | |
| 4. (literary) calligraphy brush; inkbrush | |
| 5. to administer; to manage; to control; to be in charge | |
| 管理 - to manage | |
| 6. to subject someone to discipline; to discipline | |
| 7. to concern oneself with; to interfere with | |
| 8. to be responsible for the provision of; to provide; to supply | |
| 9. to assure; to guarantee; to ensure; to keep | |
| 10. despite; regardless of; irrespective of | |
| 11. (colloquial) (used in the pattern 管 is followed by the entity that is being called a name) | |
| 臺灣人 管 花生 也 叫 土豆。 - Taiwanese people also call peanuts 土豆. | |
| 12. (dialectal, colloquial) (indicates the object of an action:) to | |
| 13. (Sichuan) to be worth | |
| 管 寧 - Guan Ning | |
