老闆 (lou5 baan2 | lao3 ban3) : boss; manager; owner

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老闆

lou5 baan2

lao3 ban3

boss; manager; owner (sometimes written as: 老板; Cantonese 老細)

Level: 3 Google Frequency: 4,530,000

This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

老闆 / 老板

This word has been viewed 13478 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by claw on 14th Aug 2004 11:11 and last edited on 2nd Aug 2009 03:35

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Characters in this word:

老 lou5 - old, venerable
闆 baan2 - boss

2 compounds containing this word:

老闆娘 - proprietress
做老闆 - self-employed

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佢係個好老闆粵
He is a nice boss.

佢經常遲到﹐ 搞到老闆好唔高興。粵
He is always late, which makes his boss very upset.
[Cantonese grammar does not need a relative pronoun (which) to introduce a subordinate clause.]

近來傳出啲流言蜚語，話老闆畀人捉黃腳雞粵
Recently there has been all these slanderous tales about the boss being blackmailed for having some extra-marital affair.

One Cantonese Homophone / Homophone Variant for this word:

老板 lou5 baan2 = boss; manager; owner

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Decimal representation of this word: 老闆

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