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  1. to shade one's eyes with one's hand

    trad. 手搭涼棚

Also written 手搭涼棚【shǒu dā liáng péng】

Characters in this word

4
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hand, (formal) to hold, person engaged in certain types of work, person skilled in certain types of work, personal(ly), convenient, classifier for skill, CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]

Pinyin
shǒu
Strokes
4
Frequency
490 of 2500
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to put up, to build (scaffolding), to hang (clothes on a pole), to connect, to join, to arrange in pairs, to match, to add, to throw in (resources), to take (boat, train), variant of 褡[da1]

Pinyin
Strokes
12
Frequency
2053 of 2500
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the five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前涼|前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 後涼|后凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北涼|北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南涼|南凉[Nan2 Liang2] (397-414), Western Liang 西涼|西凉 (400-421)

Pinyin
Liáng
Traditional
Strokes
10
Frequency
7814 of 2500