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棺
Cantonese Slang
💡 Tip: [[a coffin]] a coffin
Definitions
  1. 1 [[a coffin]] a coffin
  2. 2 gūn choi bûn 棺材本 — money for one's coffin; money put aside for one's old age
  3. 3 gūn chóih póu 棺材鋪 — coffin shop; anti-corruption bureau (OS); The Independent Commission Against Corruption, the ICAC (the Hong Kong government's anti-corruption agency) (OS)
Other Readings
棺
# adapted from cc-cedict | to place a corpse in the coffin
棺
coffin
Words containing 棺
棺材舖
a coffin shop; Anti-Corruption Bureau
買棺材唞知定/破/打
[[don't know where to buy wood for coffin]] what the hell are you playing at?; w
見棺唔見褔材眼流
[[to not cry until one sees the coffin]] to know no fear, to not be afraid, to b
買棺材唔知埞
(don't know where to buy a coffin); to act recklessly
棺木
coffin
不見棺材不落淚
not shed a tear until one sees the coffin - refuse to be convinced until one is
棺材舖
(noun) a shop sells coffins
唔見棺材唔流眼淚
not crying until one sees the funerary box, not willing to believe until one fac
棺材本
money saved up for one's death
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