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譚詠麟
taam4 wing6 leon4
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Alan Tam Wing Lun (born 23 August, 1952) is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and is a film actor. During the golden age of Cantopop, he was well-known in Hong Kong for singing romantic ballads and other songs and was not renowned for singing fast songs in the style of fellow Cantopop star Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui. He is also known as 'Lucky Lun' (幸運麟 homonym word play on "Wheel of Fortune") as well as his affectionate title 'Principal' (校長/譚校長) as he is the principal of a Hong Kong school. (source: Wikipedia)  Level: 5 This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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This word has been viewed 3018 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by bybell on 30th Oct 2005 00:34 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008 19:03 |
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Characters in this word:譚 taam4 - [1] a Chinese family name [2] same as 談詠 wing6 - chant; intone; sing 麟 leon4 - unicorn |
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