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阿公
Mandarin · pinyin ā gōng
Meanings
- (old) grandfather
- polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law
- (Taiwanese) grandfather
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1–1 · a1 gong1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
aa3 gung1
Cantonese word readings for 阿公. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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noun
- (dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Cantonese, Hakka, Min, dialectal Wu, dialectal Xiang) paternal grandfather
- (dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu, Gan, Southern Min, Southern Sixian Hakka) maternal grandfather
- (dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Hakka, Wu, dialectal Xiang) father-in-law (husband's father)
- (Cantonese, Singapore Hokkien, slang) government
- (Cantonese, colloquial, dated) commons; shared resources (among a group of people)
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