"cau" meaning in Chinese

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Verb

IPA: /kʰɔː⁵⁵/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /kʰɔː⁵⁵/ Chinese transliterations: ko¹ [Cantonese, Jyutping], kō [Cantonese, Yale], ko¹ [Cantonese, Pinyin], ko¹ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization]
Etymology: From clipping of English caution. Etymology templates: {{der|yue|en|caution|caution}} English caution Head templates: {{head|zh|verb}} cau
  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to caution (especially in a legal process) Tags: Cantonese, Hong-Kong Derived forms: cau文

Download JSON data for cau meaning in Chinese (1.6kB)

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