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"roman": "Wēixìn",
"sense": "app - transliterations and translations",
"word": "微信"
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],
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},
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"sense": "app - transliterations and translations",
"word": "WeChat"
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"sense": "app - transliterations and translations",
"word": "ウェイシン"
},
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"word": "ウィーチャット"
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"sense": "app - transliterations and translations",
"word": "위챗"
},
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"code": "ko",
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"lang_code": "ko",
"roman": "weissin",
"sense": "app - transliterations and translations",
"word": "웨이씬"
},
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"sense": "app - transliterations and translations",
"word": "weitꑠ"
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"code": "ms",
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"sense": "app - transliterations and translations",
"word": "WeChat"
},
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"code": "ms",
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"sense": "app - transliterations and translations",
"word": "Wicet"
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"code": "fa-ira",
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"word": "ویچَت"
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"word": "Вэйси́н"
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"code": "th",
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"roman": "wii-chɛ̂ɛt",
"sense": "app - transliterations and translations",
"word": "วีแชต"
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"lang": "Tibetan",
"lang_code": "bo",
"roman": "skad 'phrin",
"sense": "app - transliterations and translations",
"word": "སྐད་འཕྲིན"
},
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"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"lang_code": "ug",
"roman": "ündidar",
"sense": "app - transliterations and translations",
"word": "ئۈندىدار"
},
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"code": "vi",
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"lang_code": "vi",
"sense": "app - transliterations and translations",
"word": "Vi tín"
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"code": "vi",
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"lang_code": "vi",
"sense": "app - transliterations and translations",
"word": "WeChat"
},
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"code": "za",
"lang": "Zhuang",
"lang_code": "za",
"sense": "app - transliterations and translations",
"word": "veihsin"
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"code": "za",
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"lang_code": "za",
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"ref": "2017 April 5, Huidi Ma, Er Liu, Traditional Chinese Leisure Culture and Economic Development: A Conflict of Forces, Springer:",
"text": "The \"heads bowed down\" (to look at cell phones), those obsessed with cell phones, virtual chat, the Internet, and excessive WeChatting, which we see as a phenomenon everywhere, reflect attempts to overcome the loneliness and disinterest this generation feels, and to make up for their empty spiritual world through newly available technologies.",
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"text": "With the development of social platforms such as micro blogging and wechatting, Chinese short text classification has great impact on public opinion analysis and sentiment mining.",
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"ref": "2019 November 5, Andy Ng, Tina Burrett, Jeffrey Kingston, Routledge:",
"text": "Wechatting American politics: Misinformation, polarization, and immigrant Chinese media",
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"text": "I WeChatted a seller calling herself Linda — a name that, amid others like Aadi, Aooko, Mr. Bao and Zippy, made her seem the least likely to scam me and/or get me placed on a C.I.A. watch list — and instantly she sent me photos of a dozen possible Triomphes.",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"sense": "to use the app",
"word": "V (Wēi)"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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"roman": "fā wēixìn",
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"word": "發微信 /发微信"
}
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