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倔篤 (gwat6 duk1) — No way out (the idea is not going to work; there's no way out down this road) in Cantonese

gwatˍ₆倔dukˉ¹篤
简 倔笃
Mandarin Pinyin: jue2 du3

Meaning of 倔篤

nounNo way out (the idea is not going to work; there's no way out down this road)

Characters in 倔篤

倔gwat6
stubborn; obstinate; unbending
篤duk1
to poke; to prod; to stab | Variously written as 篤, 督, or 擉 because there is no real consensus as to the 'proper' character for this Cantonese meaning | 漢: 戳; 刺

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