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烏鬼

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Pronunciation

Peng'im: ou1 gui2
POJ: o͘-kuí
Variety: chaozhou

Meanings and usage

noun: (dated, derogatory) black person, African, (literary) Japanese cormorant
黑人

Shares this reading with an unrelated 'Japanese cormorant' sense; the dialect-tagged sense here is a dated/derogatory historical term for a black person, glossed neutrally as Wiktionary does.

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