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駢

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Pronunciation

Peng'im: bêng6
POJ: pěng
Variety: chaozhou

Meanings and usage

adjective: parallel; side-by-side, antithetical (of prose or couplets)
駢

Classical literary character with both a noun sense ('two horses side-by-side') and an adjective sense ('parallel') under the same reading; it appears almost exclusively bound in compounds such as 駢文.

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