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Rh :; 亂石頭
 * ruby; unknown stone; cable-stones.
 * 莫亂規矩
 * don't break or transgress the customs.
 * 你亂拿東西
 * you take up things in a disorderly manner.
 * 打胡亂說
 * you talk wildly! nonsense!

The 6th radical. (亅)

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 * 了
 * often pronounced la3 in sentences like the last.
 * 不得了
 * in a fix; lit. it cannot be ended or settled.
 * 又了咯一件事
 * that's another row settled.
 * 了不得
 * extraordinary; extreme; infinite; inexhaustible.
 * 一看就了然
 * you will understand it as soon as you look at it.
 * 纔來了
 * just come [indicates past time].
 * 了性酒
 * a kind of medicinal wine.

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 * 事
 * 我的事不好
 * my affairs are in a bad state.
 * 那是個不懂事的
 * he is an ignorant fellow.
 * 好事不出門惡事傳千里
 * good deeds never travel, but bad deeds spread a thousand miles.
 * 辦事的
 * the manager of a business.
 * 做事不對
 * you do not do your work properly.
 * 沒事業
 * having no occupation.
 * 同事的人
 * partners in an undertaking.
 * 有甚麽心事
 * what are you grieving about; lit. what is your heart trouble?
 * 惹出多少的事來
 * it will stir up a lot of trouble.
 * 服事
 * to serve.

The 7th radical. (二)

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 * 二
 * 二百個人
 * two hundred men.

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