wan4芸
Jyutpingwan4
Yalewàhn
Definition
Used in personal names.
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How it's used
Primarily encountered as a character in female given names, it carries a sense of elegance and literary beauty. It is rarely used as a standalone word in modern spoken Cantonese, functioning almost exclusively as a morpheme within personal names.
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芷zi2芸
A common female given name
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Grammar guides
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