Cantonese Dictionary

泌尿科醫師

bei3 niu6 fo1 ji1 si1

Mandarin: mi4 ni4 ke1 yi1 shi1

urologist

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波

bo1

Mandarin: bo1

wave | ripple | storm | surge | breakers | undulations | unexpected changes | ball | gear (car) | breasts | a typhoon | # adapted from cc-cedict

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波利尼西亞

bo1 lei6 nei4 sai1 aa3

Mandarin: bo1 li4 ni2 xi1 ya4

Polynesia

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波動

bo1 dung6

Mandarin: bo1 dong4

undulate; fluctuate; wave motion; unstable

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波動的

bo1 dung6 dik1

Mandarin: bo1 dong4 de5

fluctuant, rolling, undulated, undulating

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波及

bo1 kap6

Mandarin: bo1 ji2

[v] spread to; affect; involve

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波友

bo1 jau5*2

Cantonese

playmate in ball game

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波友

bo1 jau5

Mandarin: bo1 you3

a fellow football team mate

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波哥大

bo1 go1 daai6

Mandarin: bo1 ge1 da4

Bogota (capital of Colombia)

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波地

bo1 dei6*2

Cantonese

playing ground

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波地

bo1 dei6

Mandarin: bo1 di4

football pitch; football playground

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波場

bo1 coeng4

Mandarin: bo1 chang3

Simplified: 波场

(noun) a soccer field; or (noun) events of parties or balls

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波士

bo1 si6*2

Cantonese

[1] [loanword] boss [2] [華]: 老闆 ; 老板

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波士

bo1 si2

Mandarin: bo1 shi4

the boss

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波士頓

bo1 si6 deon6*2

Mandarin: bo1 shi4 dun4

Boston

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波士頓大學

bo1 si6 deon6*2 daai6 hok6

Mandarin: bo1 shi4 dun4 da4 xue2

Boston University

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波士頓龍蝦

bo1 si6 deon6*2 lung4 haa1

Boston lobster

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波多黎各

bo1 do1 lai4 gok3

Mandarin: bo1 duo1 li2 ge4

Puerto Rico

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波妹

bo1 mui6*1

a girl or young woman from Singapore | var. of 玻妹

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波子

bo1 zi2

Mandarin: bo1 zi3

(noun) marbles; or (noun) Porsche

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波子棋

bo1 zi2 kei2

Mandarin: bo1 zi5 qi2

Chinese checkers (a broad game)

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波子棋

bo1 zi2 kei4*2

jumping in Chinese Chess (跳棋); chinese checkers

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波子機

bo1 zi2 gei1

Mandarin: bo1 zi3 ji1

Simplified: 波子机

a pinball machine [colloquial]

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波密

bo1 mat6

Mandarin: bo1 mi4

Bomi (place in Tibet)

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波將金村

bo1 zoeng1 gam1 cyun1

Mandarin: bo1 jiang1 jin1 cun1

Potemkin village: these were purportedly fake settlements erected at the direction of Russian minister Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin to fool Empress Catherine II during her visit to Crimea in 1787. According to this story, Potemkin, who led the Crimean military campaign, had hollow facades of villages constructed along the desolate banks of the Dnieper River in order to impress the monarch and her travel party with the value of her new conquests, thus enhancing his standing in the empress's eyes. [source: Wikipedia]

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波導

bo1 dou6

Mandarin: bo1 dao3

waveguide

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波峰

bo1 fung1

Mandarin: bo1 feng1

wave crest

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波帽

bo1 mou6*2

Cantonese

a duck-billed cap (lit., "ball hat")

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波幅

bo1 fuk1

Mandarin: bo1 fu2

amplitude

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波形的

bo1 jing4 dik1

Mandarin: bo1 xing2 de5

undulated; undulating

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