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阿蓮
aa3 lin4; aa3 lian2 |
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[1] aa3 lin4: the name "Ah Lin" ("Lin!") [2] aa3 lian2: Ah Lian, a pejorative term commonly given to a certain group of young Chinese girls in Southeast Asia, especially Singapore and Malaysia. These Chinese girls, whose collective age ranges from their adolescent years to late 20s, are usually centralised in the busier and more developed cities in the region. They are regarded as bimbos, and are stereotyped as anti-intellectual, superficial, materialistic, and shallow. [source: Wikipedia] "lian2" as a reading for 蓮 is not Cantonese, this is a Hokkien term used directly as a loanword.
Level: 4 This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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Characters in this word:阿 aa3 o1 - prefix to a name; flatter蓮 lin4 - lotus 1 compounds containing this word:阿蓮鄉 - Alien (village in Taiwan) |
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