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jiān ㄐㄧㄢ

  1. double
  2. twice
  3. simultaneous
  4. holding two or more (official) posts at the same time

Sources

  • CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • pinyinjs, Apache-2.0

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