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外省
Mandarin · pinyin wài shěng
Meanings
- another province (relative to the local one)
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4–3 · wai4 sheng3
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
ngoi6 saang2
Cantonese word readings for 外省. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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noun
- another province; province other than where one is
- another province; province other than where one is — (Taiwan) waishengren; mainland Chinese that settled in Taiwan after 1945 and right after 1949 and their descendants
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