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小強
简 小强 · 繁 小強Mandarin · pinyin Xiǎo Qiáng
Meanings
- (slang) cockroach ("Little Qiang" was originally the name given to a dead cockroach that had supposedly been a pet of the lead character in the 1993 Hong Kong comedy movie "Flirting Scholar". Subsequently, it came to be used as a name for any cockroach, and also for characters in film and television who are seemingly indestructible or repeatedly resurrected.)
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3–2 · Xiao3 Qiang2
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siu2 koeng4
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noun
- (colloquial) cockroach
- (colloquial, figurative) something difficult to kill or eradicate
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