沙 — Cantonese Dictionary

沙

saa3

Cantonese Slang

💡 Tip: [[sand]]

Definitions

1 [[sand]]
2 sāa bōu hing daih 沙煲兄弟 — good friends, loyal brothers or comrades.
3 sāa bōu ngáang chaang 沙煲黑揸 — pots and pans, cooking utensils; household goods.
4 sāa cháhn 沙塵 — [sand and dust] a boastful, braggardly person (dkc 3,114).
5 sāa dáam 沙膽/膽 — courageous; foolhardy.
6 sāa déih 沙地 — Shatin, a place in the New Territories, Hong Kong (taxi driver jargon, mp 27.1.1999).
7 sāa ji 沙紙 — [sand paper] a school graduation certificate, a diploma (bmfy).
8 sāa ji péih faat saam sahp luhk saih faà péih 沙紙被發三十六誓化被 — covering with the yellow gauze paper or quilt", a stage in the triad ritual in which the recruit walks under a yellow paper (often with the thirty-six oaths of the society written on it) (traditional triad jargon, OS).
9 sāa jin 沙展 — [< sergeant] a sergeant in the Hong Kong police (bmfy).
10 sāa lùhng 沙龍 — [sand dragon] a hidden police camera that detects speeding motorists (gwjw 108, 29); snapshot, (good) photographs.
11 sāa pok 沙爆/POP — [sand blister] courageous, foolhardy.
12 sāa tāan louh syū 沙灘老鼠 — [beach rat] a robber on the beach, a thief who specialises in robbing people at the sea-side.
13 sāa tauh 沙頭 — [sand grains] rice (triad jargon, OS).