Cantonese Dictionary

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焉道
Mandarin: yan1 dao4
where [colloquial]
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焙
Mandarin: bei4
to dry over a fire | to bake | to roast | # adapted from cc-cedict
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焙火爐
Mandarin: bei4 huo3 lu2
Simplified: 焙火炉
(verb) beside a fireplace and to keep someone warm
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焙煎
Mandarin: bei4 jian1
to dry and roast over a low fire (tea, chestnuts, seaweed etc); to torrefy
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煏
Mandarin: bi4
(dialect) to dry by a fire | to iron | # adapted from cc-cedict
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煲
Mandarin: bao1
to cook slowly over a low flame | pot | saucepan | to heat | to boil in a saucepan | to stew | to simmer | to smoke cigarettes | to do something for a prolong period of time | to destroy | to crush one's enemy | # adapted from cc-cedict
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煲仔
Cantonese
a small claypot for cooking; clay pot style
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煲仔
Mandarin: bao1 zi3
clay pot
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煲仔類
Cantonese
clay pot style
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煲仔飯
Mandarin: bao1 zi3 fan4
Simplified: 煲仔饭
a dish where rice is cooked in the clay pot
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煲冇米粥
Mandarin: bao1 mao3 mi3 zhou1
Cantonese
describes the act doing something that has no positive outcome or where there is no chance of success; all talk and no trousers; to waste time discussing something that will amount to nothing
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煲冬瓜
Mandarin: bao1 dong1 gua1
a pun on the word 'Putonghua' (Mandarin); literally 'to boil a winter melon'
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煲劇
Mandarin: zhui1 ju4
Simplified: 追剧
Cantonese
to binge-watch TV series (Cantonese)
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煲呔
Mandarin: Bao1 Dai1
bowtie (spoken)
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煲水
Mandarin: bao1 shui3
to boil water; fabricated (false)
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煲水新聞
Mandarin: bao1 shui3 xin1 wen2
Simplified: 煲水新闻
fabricated news or news without substantial facts
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煲湯
Mandarin: bao1 tang1
Simplified: 煲汤
(Verb) cook soup
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煲無米粥
Mandarin: bao1 wu2 mi3 zhou1
Simplified: 煲无米粥
plans never realised or confirmed (slang)
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煲煙
Mandarin: bao1 yan1
Simplified: 煲烟
to smoke
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煲燶粥
Mandarin: bao1 nong2 zhou1
Simplified: 煲㶶粥
to overcook and burn rice porridge
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煲燶飯
Cantonese
to overcook rice such that the rice at the bottom of the pot is burnt
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煲碟
Mandarin: bao1 die2
Cantonese
to watch DVD's or VCD's, to spend several hours at a time viewing DVD's or VCD's especially TV series 劇集
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煲粥
Mandarin: bao1 zhou1
cooking congee; to have a long chat on phone
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煲老茄
Mandarin: bao1 lao3 qie2
a younger woman in a relationship with a much older man [colloquial]
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煲老藕
Mandarin: bao1 lao3 ou3
(slang) a younger man in a relationship with older woman
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煲腍
Mandarin: bao1 ren3
to boil something until it is soft
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煲茶
Mandarin: bao1 cha2
(verb) make tea
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煲藥
Mandarin: bao1 shuo4
to boil Chinese medicine
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煲蠟
Mandarin: bao1 la4
Simplified: 煲蜡
(verb) boil wax
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煲起
Mandarin: bao1 qi3
to completely destroy | crush one's enemy [colloquial]
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