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外江佬

Cantonese · source Jyutpingngoi6 gong1 lou2

noun; one who come from another province or other side of the river (indicating Yangtze or Yellow River as the border); one who come from Mainland China to Hong Kong; discriminatory in meaning

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Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.

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Reading & tones

ngoi66 · low levelgong11 · high levellou22 · high rising

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Same syllable, six tones

ngoingoi1—ngoi2—ngoi3—呆ngoi4ngoi5—外ngoi6outside

gong江gong1large river 港gong2harbor 降gong3to dropgong4—gong5—gong6—

lou噜lou1grumble 佬lou2man / guy / bloke / dudelou3—劳lou4to toil 老lou5prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral…路lou6road

Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.

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外江佬

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: wai4 jiang1 lao3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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ngoi6 gong1 lou2

Cantonese word readings for 外江佬. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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noun

(chiefly Cantonese, Hakka, Teochew) Chinese person from a different province, especially one north of Guangdong

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