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薏

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Pronunciation

Peng'im: in3
POJ: ìⁿ
Variety: chaozhou

Meanings and usage

noun: Job's tears (seed), center of a lotus seed
薏

Fetched live (absent from dossier); the character page gives two senses (Job's tears vs. lotus-seed center) without clarifying which corresponds to the Teochew reading, though it is most likely used mainly in the compound 薏米.

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