See ; on Wiktionary
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"english": "Excuse me; where are the toilets?",
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"ref": "1878, Franz Delitzsch with Neumann, translated by Thomas Rawson Birks, Commentary on the Book of Isaiah (in English), page 247:",
"text": "The name Θῖναι, Strabo, Σῖναι, Ptol., Τζίνιτζα, Kosmas, did not obtain currency first from the founder of the dynasty Tsin; but, long before this, Tsin was the name of a feudal kingdom in Shensi, one of the western provinces of the Sinese land, and Feitsa, the first feudal King of Tsin, began to reign as early as b.c. 897.",
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"(speech therapy) Used to separate the year and month of a child's age."
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