檎

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Pronunciation

Peng'im: kim5
POJ: khîm
Variety: chaozhou

Meanings and usage

noun: sugar apple (bound form, used only in 林檎)
林檎

檎 has no independent meaning apart from the compound 林檎; per Wiktionary's dialect table the Teochew (kim5) sense of 林檎 is sugar apple (Annona squamosa), not Malus domestica apple (that reading is Taiwanese Hokkien/Hakka only).

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