Gweilo or gwailou (Chinese: 鬼佬; Cantonese Yale: gwáilóu, pronounced [kʷɐ̌i lǒu] ⓘ) is a common Cantonese slang term for Westerners. In the absence of modifiers, it refers to white people as White Devils and has a history of racially deprecatory and pejorative use.

2017年9月15日 · Composed of the Cantonese 鬼 “ gwái ” (“ghost”) and 佬 “ lóu ” (“man, chap, regular guy”), gweilo / gwai lo literally means “ghost/devil man”, and has been considered pejorative, especially if...

2025年1月8日 · gweilo (plural gweilos or gweilo) (colloquial, ethnic slur) A white person in China, (particularly) a man; a ‘ foreign devil ’. Some expatriates in Hong Kong now reclaim the word to jokingly refer to themselves.

2018年9月10日 · I will come right out and say it: "gweilo" is overtly, inherently, intentionally racist. It stigmatizes an entire race as inferior beings. If any white person tells you that it is not racist, they are being self-effacing / deprecating or ironic (shuō fǎnhuà 說反話).

Gweilo Beer (Chinese: 鬼佬啤酒) is a craft brewery founded in July 2014 in Hong Kong. It released its first beer in June 2015. [1]

Definition of gweilo noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. (especially in Hong Kong) a white man, especially from the US or Britain. The local people referred to me as a gweilo. Word Origin Cantonese, literally ‘ghost man’. The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words.

Gweilo or gwai lo (鬼佬; Cantonese gwai2 lou2, pronounced [kʷɐ̌i lǒu]) is a common Cantonese slang term for foreigners although this does not apply to many other Asian races, and has a history of racially deprecatory use.

Gweilo or (pronounced pronounced as /kʷɐ̌i lǒu/) is a common Cantonese slang term for Westerners. In the absence of modifiers, it refers to white people and has a history of racially deprecatory and pejorative use.

2024年9月27日 · Gweilo or gwai lo (鬼佬; Cantonese gwai2 lou2, pronounced [kʷɐ̌i lǒu]) is a common Cantonese slang term for Westerners. In its unmodified form, it applies only to European ethnicities and has a history of racially deprecatory use.

2022年5月9日 · Gweilo, also pronounced as gwailou is a Cantonese slang word for ‘western foreigner’. Gweilo is being used to typify ‘white’ people or to be more precise: people who are not Chinese. Gwái means “ghost” or “devil”, and lóu means “man” or “guy”. So, gwáilóu means “ghostly man” or “devil man” when translated ...