芋仔
Chinese edit
Colocasia antiquorum | minutely; young; duty minutely; young; duty; responsibility | ||
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trad. (芋仔) | 芋 | 仔 | |
simp. #(芋仔) | 芋 | 仔 |
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
芋仔
- (Hakka, Southern Min) taro
- (Taiwanese Hokkien, figurative, sometimes ironic or derogatory) waishengren; immigrants who moved to Taiwan from mainland China after the end of World War II
- 老芋仔 [Taiwanese Hokkien] ― lāu-ō͘-á [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― old Chinese Civil War veteran
- (Cantonese) eddo
- (Zhenqian Min) potato
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References edit
- “Entry #3408”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.