杠 gàng
(old) coffin-bearing pole; thick pole; bar; rod; bold line; thick stroke; to mark with a thick line; to sharpen (a knife, razor etc); (slang) to argue; to be deliberately argumentative; standard; criterion; hyphen; dash
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