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十八廿二

sap6 baat3 jaa6 ji6*2

women in the bloom of youth (lit., "eighteen and twenty-two")

This word can only be used in Spoken Cantonese or informal Cantonese writing. 粵

Level: 4

十八廿二

十 sap6 shi2 - ten
八 baat3 ba1 - eight
廿 je6 jaa6 nim6 nian4 - twenty; twentieth
二 ji6 er4 - number two

This word was added by bybell on 24th Sep 2006

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