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老表
Mandarin · pinyin lǎo biǎo
Meanings
- (coll.) male cousin through a female relative
- (coll.) friendly form of address between men of similar age
- (coll.) nickname for a person from Jiangxi
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3–3 · lao3 biao3
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
lou5 biu2
Cantonese word readings for 老表. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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noun
- male cousin (mother's sibling's or father's sister's son)
- (dialectal) polite form of address to a male stranger
- (humorous) form of address to someone from Jiangxi province (by people from the rest of China)
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