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倭賊
- (literary or Puxian Min, historical) wokou (pirates from a mixture of ethnicities who raided the coastlines of China and Korea from the 13th to 16th centuries)
- (literary or Puxian Min, ethnic slur) Japanese person, a Jap
豈意日本小邦倭賊，背主欺君，拒獻貢禮；不遵王法，藐視中原，侵犯疆土。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
岂意日本小邦倭贼，背主欺君，拒献贡礼；不遵王法，藐视中原，侵犯疆土。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]- From: Û Chheng-hong's Proclamation" , 1915
- Qǐ yì rìběn xiǎobāng wōzéi, bèi zhǔ qī jūn, jù xiàn gònglǐ; bù zūn wángfǎ, miǎoshì zhōngyuán, qīnfàn jiāngtǔ.
- Who would have thought that Japan, a petty nation of barbarians, would betray their sovereign and deceive their lord, refusing to pay tribute; they disregard royal law, show contempt for the Central Plains, and violate our territories.
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- 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “倭贼”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 419.