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From :   micahw

Date : 2009-08-16 / 01:51PM

Benny, What is the proper word to say “blood”?

xie3 or xue4?

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2009-08-16 / 09:42PM

The standard pronunciation should be “xiě”. But orally people like to say it as “xuè”

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