A string of disasters struck the region.
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chuàn · cyun3 (Jyutping)
- to string together
- to skewer
- to connect wrongly
- to gang up
- to rove
- string
- bunch
- skewer
- classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of
- to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus)
- to move across
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Character breakdown
Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.
Example sentences
She made a series of medical discoveries.
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