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"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hakka",
"Hong-Kong"
],
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hakka",
"Luchuan"
],
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"tags": [
"Jin",
"Taiyuan"
],
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"tags": [
"Jin",
"Zhangjiakou"
],
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"tags": [
"Jin",
"Handan"
],
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"tags": [
"Jian'ou"
],
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"tags": [
"Fuzhou"
],
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"tags": [
"Xiamen"
],
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"tags": [
"Zhao'an"
],
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"tags": [
"Tainan"
],
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Penang"
],
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Singapore"
],
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"tags": [
"Haikou"
],
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"word": "菩督"
},
{
"tags": [
"Southern-Pinghua",
"Nanning",
"Tingzi"
],
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"tags": [
"Guilin"
],
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"tags": [
"Wu",
"Shanghai"
],
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"tags": [
"Wu",
"Suzhou"
],
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"tags": [
"Wu",
"Danyang"
],
"word": "癩葡萄瓜"
},
{
"tags": [
"Wu",
"Hangzhou"
],
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"tags": [
"Wu",
"Ningbo"
],
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"tags": [
"Wu",
"Wenzhou"
],
"word": "紅瓤"
},
{
"tags": [
"Wu",
"Jinhua"
],
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"tags": [
"Xiang",
"Changsha"
],
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"tags": [
"Xiang",
"Loudi"
],
"word": "苦瓜"
},
{
"tags": [
"Xiang",
"Quanzhou"
],
"word": "苦瓜"
}
],
"word": "涼瓜"
}
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