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本地人

Mandarin · pinyin běn dì rén

Meanings

  1. native person (of a country)
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本
běn · root, origin, source; basis
地
de · dì · earth; soil, ground; region
人
rén · man; people; mankind; someone else
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3–4–2 · ben3 di4 ren2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

bun2 dei6 jan4

Cantonese word readings for 本地人. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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bun2 dei6 jan4

Pleco · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Word reading; meanings not aligned.

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

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noun

  1. native; local resident; local
  2. (Hong Kong) Punti
  3. (Dongguan Cantonese) Dongguan Cantonese-speaking local in contrast to Hakka speaker

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