粵

榜bong2眼ngaan5

bong2 ngaan5bǎng yǎn

English

  1. candidate who came second in the Han-lin examination
  2. see 狀元|状元[zhuang4 yuan2]
  3. the second place in an examination; directly derived from the term from court examinations in dynastic China

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 即係第二名；源自古代科舉殿試進士第二名嘅稱呼

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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