ruò

  1. ruò adjective weak
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '弱'; Guoyu '弱' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '弱' 1a, p. 393;Unihan '弱'; XHZD '弱' 1, p. 642)
  2. ruò adjective little; young
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '弱'; Guoyu '弱' adj 4; Kroll 2015 '弱' 1b, p. 393; XHZD '弱' 2, p. 642)
  3. ruò verb to die
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '弱' v 1; XHZD '弱' 3, p. 642)
  4. ruò verb to decrease
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '弱' 2, p. 393)
  5. ruò adjective almost
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: When following a numeral (CC-CEDICT '弱'; Guoyu '弱' adj 3; Kroll 2015 '弱' 2a, p. 393)
  6. ruò proper noun Ruo [river]
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Name of a legendary river (Kroll 2015 '弱' 3, p. 393)
  7. ruò verb to fail
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '弱' v 2)
  8. ruò adjective fragile; delicate
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (Guoyu '弱' adj 2; Kroll 2015 '弱' 1, p. 393; Unihan '弱')
  9. ruò adjective weak; durbala
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: durbala, Japanese: jaku, or: nyaku (BCSD '弱', p. 436; MW 'durbala'; Unihan '弱')

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