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歃

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Pronunciation

Peng'im: cah4
POJ: tshah
Variety: chaozhou

Meanings and usage

verb: to eat (esp. in an undignified/greedy manner), to smear blood on the mouth (literary)
歃

The page lists a Teochew pronunciation (cah4) in the pronunciation table but does not explicitly attach a sense to it; the gloss assumes the colloquial Southern Min 'to eat' sense shared with the neighboring Xiamen/Quanzhou/Zhangzhou Hokkien entries rather than the literary 'smear blood' sense.

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