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香蕉人

Mandarin · pinyin xiāng jiāo rén

banana person (yellow outside, white inside)
mildly pejorative term used by Chinese for assimilated Asian Americans
Westernized person of Asian appearance

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香: xiāng · fragrant, sweet-smelling; incense; Kangxi radical 186
蕉: jiāo · banana; plantain
人: rén · man; people; mankind; someone else

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1–1–2 · xiang1 jiao1 ren2

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(figurative, mildly derogatory, slang, ethnic slur) person of Asian descent who has assimilated into Western culture or married a Caucasian; banana (indicating someone is yellow outside, white inside) (Classifier: 個／个 m)

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