chéng ba lǎo

城巴佬 (chéng ba lǎo) is a Chinese word meaning “(slang) (jocular) "city bumpkin", city person lacking basic rural or natural-world knowledge (play on 鄉巴佬|乡巴佬[xiang1 ba5 lao3])”.

Meanings

  1. 1(slang) (jocular) "city bumpkin", city person lacking basic rural or natural-world knowledge (play on 鄉巴佬|乡巴佬[xiang1 ba5 lao3])

Characters in 城巴佬

城chéng · city walls巴bā · to long for佬lǎo · male

Related words

城市city; town城city walls巴to long for巴Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan)佬male巴黎Paris, capital of France城堡castle嘴巴mouth (CL:張|张[zhang1])古巴Cuba巴斯Bath city in southwest England费城Philadelphia, Pennsylvania巴西Brazil

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