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饯别

jiàn bié

2-character word Traditional 餞別

What 饯别 means

1. to give a farewell dinner

The characters in 饯别

• 饯jiànfarewell dinner; preserves
• 别biéto leave; to part (from); (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish…

Sounds the same

Read jiàn bié, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 鉴别to differentiate; to distinguish

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