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枷板

jiā bǎn

2-character word

What 枷板 means

1. cangue
2. fig. difficult situation

The characters in 枷板

• 枷jiācangue (wooden collar like stocks used to restrain and punish criminals in China)
• 板bǎnboard; plank; plate

Sounds the same

Read jiā bǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 夹板wooden boards used to press sth together; (medicine) splint

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