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呏

shēng

Character

What 呏 means

1. gallon
2. quart

Sounds the same

Read shēng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 生to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 声sound; voice; tone
• 升to ascend; to rise; to promote; to elevate; liter
• 牲domestic animal; sacrificial animal
• 笙sheng, a free reed wind instrument with vertical bamboo pipes
• 甥(bound form) sister's son; nephew
• 昇(used as a surname and in given names)
• 泩rising of water
• 鼪stoat; weasel
• 曻variant of 升

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• How characters are built from components.
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