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九九六

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Pronunciation

Peng'im: gao2 gao2 lag8
POJ: káu-káu-la̍k
Variety: chaozhou

Meanings and usage

noun: 996 work schedule (9am-9pm, six days a week)
九九六, 996

This is a modern internet-era neologism (from the Mandarin '996' labor-schedule slang); it is uncertain whether it is genuinely established Teochew colloquial vocabulary rather than a borrowed term read with literal digit pronunciations.

Usage: neologism, slang

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