Cantonese Dictionary

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半衰期
Mandarin: ban4 shuai1 qi1 (PRC), ban4 shuai1 qi2 (Taiwan)
half-life period; half-time
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半規
Mandarin: ban4 gui1
semicircular
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半規則
Mandarin: ban4 gui1 ze2
quasi-regular
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半規管
Mandarin: ban4 gui1 guan3
semicircular canal
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半視野
Mandarin: ban4 shi4 ye3
half visual field
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半路
Mandarin: ban4 lu4
halfway; midway; along the way
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半路出家
Mandarin: ban4 lu4 chu1 jia1
without solid foundation; switch to a job one was not trained for
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半身不遂
Mandarin: ban4 shen1 bu4 sui2
[Medicine] paraplegia, hemiplegia (paralysis of one side of the body)
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半身像
Mandarin: ban4 shen1 xiang4
half-length photo or portrait; bust
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半載
Mandarin: ban4 zai3
half year; six months
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半輩子
Mandarin: ban4 bei4 zi5
half of a lifetime | [粵]: 半世人
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半透明
Mandarin: ban4 tou4 ming2
translucent; semi-transparent
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半透明點
Mandarin: ban4 tou4 ming2 dian3
translucent spot
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半途
Mandarin: ban4 tu2
halfway; midway
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半途而廢
Mandarin: ban4tu2er2fei4
Simplified: 半途而废
(verb) Drop out in half way
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半邊
Mandarin: ban4 bian1
half of sth; one side of sth
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半邊天
Mandarin: ban4 bian1 tian1
half the sky; womenfolk | Mao Zedong-era Communist-speak. From Mao's famous maxim "Women hold up half the sky" i.e. women are as important as men.
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半邊艸
Mandarin: ban4 bian1 cao3
Kangxi radical 45 屮
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半開
Mandarin: ban4kai1
Simplified: 半开
ajar [written and colloquial]
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半開合
Cantonese
half open half shut
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半隻燒鴨
half roast duck
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半響
Mandarin: ban4 xiang3
half the day; a long time; quite a while
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半鹹半淡
Mandarin: ban4 jian3 ban4 dan4
lit. in between salty and tasteless, meaning one has not mastered a set of skills or language
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半鹹淡
Mandarin: ban4 xian2 dan4
Simplified: 半咸淡
describes the situation where a person is speaking a language inaccurately which is not his | her mother tongue
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半點
Mandarin: ban4 dian3
the least bit
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卑
Mandarin: bei1
low | base | vulgar | inferior | humble | vile | despicable | modest | of lower generation | # adapted from cc-cedict
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卑下
Mandarin: bei1 xia4
base; low; menial; humble; mean
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卑利街
Mandarin: bei1 li4 jie1
Peel Street starts from the Queen's Road Central and spans uphills into the Mid-levels.
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卑劣
Mandarin: bei1 lie4
base; mean; despicable
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卑南鄉
Mandarin: bei1 nan2 xiang1
Peinan (village in Taiwan)
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