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chen

See also: Appendix:Variations of "chen"

Achang

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Pronunciation

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  • (Myanmar) /tʃʰɛn˧/
  • (Lianghe) [tɕʰiŋ⁵⁵]
  • (Longchuan) [tsʰen⁵⁵]
  • (Luxi) [tsʰən³⁵]
  • (Xiandao) [tsʰɛn⁵⁵]

Noun

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chen

  1. rice

Further reading

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  • Inglis, Douglas; Sampu, Nasaw; Jaseng, Wilai; Jana, Thocha (2005), A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎[1], Payap University, page 17

Chuukese

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Noun

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chen

  1. grace

Galician

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Adjective

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chen (feminine chía, masculine plural chíos, feminine plural chías)

  1. (Galician-Asturian) alternative form of cheo
    • 1898, Marcelino Fernández Fernández, El Franco y su Concejo, page 112:
      En casa chía, llougo se fai a cía.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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Haitian Creole

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From French chien (“dog”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʃɛ̃/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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chen

  1. dog

References

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  • Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎[2], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 38

Ligurian

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Noun

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chen m

  1. plural of can

Mandarin

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Alternative forms

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  • ĉen — very rare shorthand

Romanization

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chen (chen5 / chen0, Zhuyin ˙ㄔㄣ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 傖 / 伧

chen

  1. nonstandard spelling of chēn
  2. nonstandard spelling of chén
  3. nonstandard spelling of chěn
  4. nonstandard spelling of chèn

Usage notes

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  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Old French

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Noun

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chen oblique singular, m (oblique plural chens, nominative singular chens, nominative plural chen)

  1. (Anglo-Norman) alternative form of chien

Old Irish

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Etymology 1

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Preposition

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chen

  1. lenited form of cen

Etymology 2

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Noun

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chen

  1. alternative spelling of chenn

Vietnamese

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Etymology

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Possibly related to xen and chèn.

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Verb

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chen • (眞, 󱢨, 擅, 羶, 氈, 𢷆, 扦, 󰭦, 旃, 𦍫)

  1. to get into a crowd, to elbow into, to jostle

Derived terms

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