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Translation dingya (Ding3 Ya2) = (顶芽 or 頂芽) botanically speaking, Apical Bud, i.e. the bud at the end of a stem, which typically grows leaves a week earlier than any ceya, during which time their growth is suppressed as the dingya monopolizes the stem’s nutrition, by some accounts resulting in higher quality than the ceya
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