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外家

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Pronunciation

Peng'im: ghua7 gê1
POJ: guā-ke
Variety: chaozhou

Meanings and usage

noun: married woman's natal family home, mother's family home
外家

Wiktionary lists several senses (maternal grandparents' home, married woman's parents' home, historical mistress/concubine meanings); the Teochew dialect table points to the 'married woman's parents' home' sense but the exact scope for this reading is not fully disambiguated.

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