Cantonese Slang
💡 Tip: [[to receive; to endure; to suffer]]
Definitions
  1. 1 [[to receive; to endure; to suffer]]
  2. 2 sauh 受 — to receive a prison sentence (gwdl 100, 19).
  3. 3 sauh bāa 受把 — imprisonment; to be sentenced to prison.
  4. 4 sauh géi noih 受幾耐 — a question about someone's prison sentence, "how long did you get?", "how long is your sentence?".
  5. 5 sauh gwo meih 受過未 — a question about someone's criminal record, "have you ever been in prison?".
  6. 6 sauh kāu 受溝 — to accept a sexual advance, to get picked up, to allow one's self to be chatted up.
  7. 7 sauh lohk 受落 — popular, widely admired (e.g. film star).
  8. 8 sauh yàhn chìhn chòih 受人錢財 — [if you accept others' money, you must help with others' disasters] one must be committed to complete the task for which one has been paid.
  9. 9 sauh yàhn yih fàan sei 受人二分四 — [to accept a few cents from someone] to work as an employee.
  10. 10 sauh yúhn ih̀h sauh ngaahng 受軟嗱受硬 — [to take the soft but not the hard] used of someone who is more easily persuaded than coerced.
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