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阿蓮
  aa3 lin4; aa3 lian2   jyutping
[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 is not Cantonese, this is a Hokkien term used directly as a loanword.
Vulgar
noun

Level: 4
This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
阿蓮

This word has been viewed 2791 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by bybell on 15th Jul 2008 20:52 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008 19:03
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Characters in this word:

 aa3 o1  -  prefix to a name; flatter
 lin4  -  lotus

1 compounds containing this word:

阿蓮鄉 - Alien (village in Taiwan)

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Not sure whether Ah Lin wants to go or not.
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