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郎

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Pronunciation

Peng'im: neng5
POJ: nûrng
Variety: chaozhou
Peng'im: lang5
POJ: lâng
Variety: chaozhou

Meanings and usage

noun: young man; man (as in compounds like bridegroom, lover), darling; term of address for a husband or lover
郎

2 of 3 candidate readings from Wiktionary confirmed (neng5, lang5) — genuine Chaozhou colloquial form not yet confirmed by a speaker. The third candidate (lang6) is attested only for a narrow bound morpheme used solely in 屎殼郎 (dung beetle), not an independently definable sense, so it was dropped.

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