Chinese

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country; village the people; nationality; citizen
trad. (鄉民)
simp. (乡民)

Etymology

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The second sense is from a line in the Mandarin-dubbed version of Stephen Chow's movie Hail the Judge:

鄉民進來看熱鬧 [MSC, trad.]
乡民进来看热闹 [MSC, simp.]
Wǒ shì gēn xiāngmín jìnlái kànrènào de. [Pinyin]
I'm here just following the villagers to see what's happening.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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鄉民

  1. villager; country folk
  2. (Taiwan, Internet slang) one who likes to follow online discussions and add their opinions

Synonyms

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  • (villager):