See Hui in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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],
"word": "Hui"
}
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"English lemmas",
"English proper nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Cantonese",
"English terms borrowed from Mandarin",
"English terms derived from Cantonese",
"English terms derived from Mandarin",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
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"Pages with 2 entries",
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"Terms with French translations",
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"en:Ethnicity",
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"1": "en",
"2": "cmn",
"3": "^徽"
},
"expansion": "Mandarin 徽 (Huī)",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Mandarin 徽 (Huī).",
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{
"args": {},
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}
],
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"pos": "name",
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{
"glosses": [
"A Chinese lect spoken in Southern Anhui and neighbouring Zhejiang and Jiangxi."
],
"links": [
[
"lect",
"lect"
],
[
"Anhui",
"Anhui"
],
[
"neighbouring",
"neighbouring"
],
[
"Zhejiang",
"Zhejiang"
],
[
"Jiangxi",
"Jiangxi"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Huizhou"
}
],
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{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "dialect",
"word": "徽州話"
},
{
"alt": "fai¹ zau¹ waa⁶⁻²",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "dialect",
"word": "徽州话"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "dialect",
"word": "徽語"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "fai¹ jyu⁵",
"sense": "dialect",
"word": "徽语"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "dialect",
"word": "徽州話"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Huīzhōuhuà",
"sense": "dialect",
"word": "徽州话"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "dialect",
"word": "徽語"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Huīyǔ",
"sense": "dialect",
"word": "徽语"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "dialect",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hui"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xoj",
"sense": "dialect",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "хой"
}
],
"word": "Hui"
}
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"English terms derived from Cantonese",
"English terms derived from Mandarin",
"English uncountable nouns",
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"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Ethnicity",
"en:Languages"
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cmn",
"3": "^惠"
},
"expansion": "Mandarin 惠 (Huì)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
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"1": "en",
"2": "yue",
"3": "-"
},
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"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "許",
"tr": "hui2"
},
"expansion": "許／许 (hui2)",
"name": "zh-l"
}
],
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"head_templates": [
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"pos": "name",
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{
"categories": [
"English surnames",
"English surnames from Chinese"
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"glosses": [
"A surname from Chinese."
],
"links": [
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"surname",
"surname"
]
]
}
],
"word": "Hui"
}
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