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Rh 1


 * 丁
 * 丁香
 * cloves; lit. nail spice, (from the old meaning of the character).
 * 好多人丁
 * how many persons?
 * 成丁
 * to come of age.
 * 丁憂
 * a son mourning for his father (official).
 * 家丁 and 門丁
 * servants and door keepers.
 * 兵丁
 * soldiers.
 * 他兩個的力量丁對
 * they are about matched in strength.
 * 丁梆兩句
 * they squabbled a bit.
 * 丁年
 * "tin" year, i.e, the year in the cycle in which "tin" occurs.


 * 七
 * 七百
 * seven hundred.
 * 第七本
 * the seventh volume.
 * 燒七
 * to burn cash paper after a death every seventh day till the 40th day.
 * 他在那裏說七說八的
 * he just talked a lot of nonsense there.

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 * 丈
 * 一丈大
 * ten feet long; a Chinese yard.
 * 好多丈尺
 * what is the measurement?
 * 丈田
 * to measure fields.
 * 丈夫
 * a husband.
 * 大丈夫
 * an able man.
 * 老丈人
 * wife's father.


 * 下
 * 棹子底下
 * under the table.
 * 在下面
 * on the lower side.
 * 下等的貨
 * an inferior class of goods.
 * 下民
 * the vulgar classes.
 * 下半天
 * after-noon.
 * 下月
 * next month.
 * 快快下來
 * come down quickly.
 * 把瓦下下來
 * take down the files off the house.
 * 下馬
 * to dismount from a horse.

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