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Jyutping lau4
Pinyin liú

Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
  1. precious stone
Definitions (CC-CANTO)
  1. precious stone/sparkling stone/glazed/opaque
Definitions (Wiktionary)
  1. character
    Used in compounds.
Definitions (Unihan)
  1. sparkling stone
  2. glazed, opaque
  3. Cangjie Input
    MGYIU
Examples (Tatoeba—Mandarin-English)
  1. Mandarin
    在15世纪,琉球王国是中国帝国的附庸国。
    在15世紀,琉球王國是中國帝國的附庸國。
    zài 15 shì jì , liú qiú wáng guó shì zhōng guó dì guó de fù yōng guó 。
    • During the 15th century, the Ryukyu Kingdom was a tributary state of Imperial China.
Examples (Wiktionary)
  1. Mandarin
    琉球群岛曾经是美国和日本激战地区,当地居民死亡惨重,战争创伤深深烙印在琉球人民心中。
    琉球羣島曾經是美國和日本激戰地區,當地居民死亡慘重,戰爭創傷深深烙印在琉球人民心中。
    liú qiú qún dǎo céng jīng shì měi guó hé rì běn jī zhàn dì qū , dāng dì jū mín sǐ wáng cǎn zhòng , zhàn zhēng chuàng shāng shēn shēn lào yìn zài liú qiú rén mín xīn zhōng .
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  2. Mandarin
    荷马时代希腊的“议事会”,惯常在主要的巴西琉斯的宫廷举行,在食桌上讨论王所提出的问题。
    荷馬時代希臘的“議事會”,慣常在主要的巴西琉斯的宮廷舉行,在食桌上討論王所提出的問題。
    hé mǎ shí dài xī là de “ yì shì huì ” , guàn cháng zài zhǔ yào de bā xī liú sī de gōng tíng jǔ xíng , zài shí zhuō shàng tǎo lùn wáng suǒ tí chū de wèn tí .
    • In Homeric Greece, councils used to be held in the court of a major basileus, where the king's questions were deliberated at the dining table.