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大娘
Mandarin · pinyin dà niáng
Meanings
- (coll.) father's older brother's wife
- aunt (polite address)
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4–2 · da4 niang2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
daai6 noeng1
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noun
- (dialectal, chiefly northern China) paternal aunt (wife of father's eldest brother)
- (Gan) paternal aunt (father's sister)
- (Hengyang Xiang) maternal aunt (one's mother's elder sister)
- (Hengyang Xiang) one's husband's elder brother's wife
- (dialectal, polite) A term of address to an elderly woman, usually older than one's mother.
- (dated) A term of address from a concubine to the primary wife of her husband, or from a child of a concubine to the primary wife of their father.
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