八哥兒 (baat3 go1 ji4) — myna in Cantonese | HKDictionary

baat˗₃八goˉ¹哥jiˎ₄兒

简八哥儿

Mandarin Pinyin: ba1 ge1 er2

Meaning of 八哥兒

nounmyna

Characters in 八哥兒

brother (term of address for an elder male)

final particle / suffix, placed after many commonly used nouns to avoid employing one-syllable terms in speech (very common in the Beijing dialect 北京話, see: 兒化, 兒化韻)

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