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村

Mandarin · pinyin cūn

village
(dialect) to scold
rustic; boorish

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村: cūn · village, hamlet; uncouth, vulgar

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village; hamlet (Classifier: 條／条 c)
(especially Hong Kong) housing estate
(attributive) rustic; boorish; uncouth; vulgar
(Beijing Mandarin) to scold
rural village (an administrative unit in the Republic of China)

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