割肉

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Chinese

cut off meat; flesh
trad. (割肉)
simp. #(割肉)

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Verb

割肉

  1. to cut meat
  2. to cut flesh from one's own body
  3. (figurative) to make a sacrifice very reluctantly
  4. (figurative, stock market) to sell (products, stocks, etc.) at a much lower price
  5. (Hokkien, figurative) to be grieved; to be pained (to let go of money as it cuts flesh in one's body)

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