佬
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male; man (Cantonese)
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 人 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 佬
- Common rank
- #2,143
- Unicode
- U+4F6C
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Formation & memory
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How 佬 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
An old 老 person 亻; 老 also provides the pronunciation
Words with 佬
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 口水佬 | talkative person (Cantonese) | |
| 美国佬 | an American (derog.); a Yankee | |
| 城巴佬 | (slang) (jocular) "city bumpkin", city person lacking basic rural or natural-world knowled… | |
| 金鱼佬 | pedophile (slang, referring to the case of a Hong Kong child abductor who lured girls with… | |
| 和事佬 | peacemaker; mediator; (derog.) fixer | |
| 道真仡佬族苗族自治县 | Daozhen Gelao and Miao Autonomous County, in Zunyi City 遵義市|遵义市[Zun1 yi4 Shi4], Guizhou | |
| 北方佬 | northerner; guy from the north; Yankee | |
| 务川仡佬族苗族自治县 | Wuchuan Gelao and Miao Autonomous County, in Zunyi City 遵義市|遵义市[Zun1 yi4 Shi4], Guizhou | |
| 罗城仫佬族自治县 | Luocheng Mulao Autonomous County, in Hechi City 河池市[He2 chi2 Shi4], Guangxi | |
| 乡下佬 | villager; hick | |
| 乡巴佬 | (derog.) country bumpkin; hick | |
| 姆佬族 | Mulao ethnic group of Guangxi | |
| 大佬 | big shot (leading some field or group); godfather (in an organization) | |
| 北佬 | northerner, person from Northern China (Cantonese) | |
| 基佬 | (slang) gay guy | |
| 鹤佬人 | Hoklo people, southern Chinese people of Taiwan | |
| 福佬 | Hoklo | |
| 鬼佬 | foreigner (Cantonese); Westerner | |
| 赤佬 | (dialect) scoundrel; rascal | |
| 姆佬 | Mulao ethnic group of Guangxi |