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 qián zhuì prefix (linguistics)
 zì shǒu prefix
 cí tóu prefix
 qián guān heading / prefix
 qián chuò prefix
 méi (negative prefix for verbs) / have not / not
 lǎo prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough
 yì easy / amiable / to change / to exchange / prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible"
 cí zhuì prefix or suffix of a compound word / affix (linguistics)
 ā prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity / used in transliteration / also pr. [a4]
 wéi only / alone / -ism (in Chinese, a prefix, often combined with a suffix such as 主義|主义[zhu3 yi4] or 論|论[lun4], e.g. 唯理論|唯理论[wei2 li3 lun4], rationalism)
 láng (arch.) minister / official / noun prefix denoting function or status / a youth
 yōu distant, far / adverbial prefix
 cí zhuì bō chú affix stripping / to determine the root of a word by removing prefix and suffix
 Jiā ná dà Huáng jiā HMCS (Her Majesty's Canadian Ship) / prefix for Canadian Navy Vessels
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