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Chinese
Etymology
From Hokkien 潘 (phun).
Pronunciation
Noun
ㄆㄨㄣ
- (Taiwanese Mandarin, slang) dirty wastewater; used cooking oil; waste runoff
Usage notes
- Loanwords from Taiwanese Hokkien are occasionally written in Bopomofo, so as to alert the reader that the word should be pronounced according to its sound in Min Nan rather than Mandarin.