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猩猩

Mandarin · pinyin xīng xing

orangutan
(slang) dialect speaker whose speech is corrupted by Standard Mandarin

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猩: xīng · species of orangutan

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1–5 · xing1 xing5

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noun

An unspecified kind of ape; generally assumed to be gibbons or orangutans, since they are the only ones geographically possible. (Classifier: 隻／只)
orangutan

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