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容

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Pronunciation

Peng'im: iong5
POJ: iông
Variety: chaozhou

Pronunciation note: Whether the fronting extends to the nasal-coda rime is less clearly attested than for the open rime. Verify before citing. No source located: Wikipedia's fronting list covers the nasalised-vowel rime (ĩõ) and the checked rime (ioʔ), not a true nasal-CODA rime like this one, and Learn Teochew's regional-differences section explicitly says it does not address codas at all. This value is an editorial extrapolation from the attested open-rime pattern, not independently sourced.

Meanings and usage

verb: to contain; to hold, to tolerate; to allow
容, 容納

The character has many distinct senses (contain/tolerate/allow, facial appearance, surname, etc.) and the Wiktionary page does not indicate which sense corresponds specifically to this Teochew reading, so the core verb sense was chosen as most representative.

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