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Hanzi Character Search: 沛

6C9B

 
abundant, full, copious; sudden
Radical 𣱱
Strokes (without radical) 4 Total Strokes 7
Mandarin reading peì Cantonese reading pui3
Japanese on reading hai Japanese kun reading sawa sakan
Korean reading phay Vietnamese reading phải

CEDICT Entries:

   [ peì xiàn ]    Pei county in Xuzhou 徐州[Xu2 zhou1], Jiangsu
⇒    [ liú diān peì ]    destitute and homeless (idiom); displaced and without means
⇒    [ fēng peì ]    copious, plentiful (of water), surging (of waves), refers to home village of first Han emperor 漢高祖|汉高祖[Han4 Gao1 zu3], fig. majestic
⇒    [ xiàng zhuāng jiàn zhì zaì peì gōng ]    see 項莊舞劍,意在沛公|项庄舞剑,意在沛公[Xiang4 Zhuang1 wu3 jian4 , yi4 zai4 Pei4 gong1]
⇒    [ xiàng zhuāng jiàn zaì peì gōng ]    lit. Xiang Zhuang performs the sword dance, but his mind is set on Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] (idiom); refers to 206 BC plot to murder Liu Bang, aka Duke of Pei 沛公[Pei4 gong1] and the future Han emperor, during a sword dance at the Hongmen feast 鴻門宴|鸿门宴[Hong2 men2 yan4], an elaborate deception to hide malicious intent
⇒    [ diān peì ]    destitute, difficulty, hardship, trouble
⇒    [ diān peì liú ]    homeless and miserable (idiom); to wander about in a desperate plight, to drift

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