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小玩意兒 (siu2 wun6 ji3 ji4) — gismo, gadget in Cantonese

siuˊ²小wunˍ₆玩ji˗₃意jiˎ₄兒
简 小玩意儿
Mandarin Pinyin: xiao3 wan2 yi4 er5

Meaning of 小玩意兒

noungismo, gadget

Characters in 小玩意兒

小siu2
humble; mean; lowly
玩waan2
play (with); have fun; amuse oneself
意ji3
expect; anticipate; foresee
兒ji4
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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