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Chinese[edit]
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industrious; produce; bear
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breast; milk
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simp. and trad. (孳乳)
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孳
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乳
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Pronunciation[edit]
孳乳
- (literary) to multiply; to propagate
文者,物象之本;字者,言孳乳而寖多也。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]- From: 《說文解字》序
- Wén zhě, wùxiàng zhī běn; zì zhě, yán zīrǔ ér jìnduō yě. [Pinyin]
- Writing is the basis of expressing ideas; words are speech propagating and multiplying.
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