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Gweilo

"Ghost person"; Cantonese slang for white people, sometimes as a racial slur
Thing slang Q1522610
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Gweilo

Summary

Gweilo is a slang[1]. Gweilo draws 435 Wikipedia views per month (slang category, ranking #4 of 33).[2]

Key Facts

  • Gweilo's instance of is recorded as slang[3].
  • Gweilo's instance of is recorded as ethnophaulism[4].
  • Gweilo's subclass of is recorded as white people[5].
  • Gweilo's language of work or name is recorded as Cantonese[6].
  • Gweilo's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02ltpy[7].

Why It Matters

Gweilo draws 435 Wikipedia views per month (slang category, ranking #4 of 33).[2] Gweilo has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_gweilo_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Gweilo}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/gweilo}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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