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荷蘭

简荷兰 · 繁荷蘭

Mandarin · pinyin Hé lán

Holland; the Netherlands

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荷: hé · lotus, water lily; Holland
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兰: lán · orchid; elegant, graceful

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2–2 · He2 lan2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

ho4 laan1

Cantonese word readings for 荷蘭. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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name

Holland, the Netherlands (a country in Western Europe)
Holland (a historical province of the Netherlands)
(Mainland China, Internet slang, humorous) alternative form of 河南 (Hénán, “Henan province”) (mocking the accent of the Henan dialect, cf. Dutch in the "inferior" sense)

adv

(Cantonese, euphemistic, vulgar) alternative form of 好撚 (hou² lan², “fucking (as an intensifier)”)

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