Cantonese Dictionary

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搶嘢
Mandarin: qiang3 ye3
Simplified: 抢嘢
Cantonese
to rob with force
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搶奪
Mandarin: qiang3 duo2
snatch; seize; take by force; steal
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搶手
Mandarin: qiang3 shou3
in demand (goods, service, person), sought after
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搶手貨
Mandarin: qiang3shou3huo4
Simplified: 抢手货
(noun) Hot item | product
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搶掠
Mandarin: qiang3 lve4
to loot, looting
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搶救
Mandarin: qiang3 jiu4
to rescue; to save; to salvage
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搶槓和
Mandarin: qiang3 gang4 hu2
(mahjong) (v.) to rob a kong, stealing a tile that an opponent has added to his/her melded triplet to form a melded quadruplet to win (the 和 may be left out)
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搶灘
Mandarin: qiang3 taan1
1. capture a beachhead 2.rush to take over a market
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搶火
Mandarin: qiang3 huo3
Simplified: 抢火
backdraft of fire;
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搶眼
attractive
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搶答
Mandarin: qiang3 da2
rush to answer a question before someone else
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搶購
Mandarin: qiang3 gou4
panic buying, rushing to buy | [粵]: 擸, 掃貨
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搶走
to snatch
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搶走票源
Mandarin: qiang3zou3 piao4 yuan2
Simplified: 抢走票源
to snatch away the votes [written and colloquial]
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搶鏡
Mandarin: qiang3 jing4
Simplified: 抢镜
to steal the limelight; to steal the scene
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搶閘
Mandarin: qiang3 zha2
Simplified: 抢闸
to race to be the first to get something or to do something
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搶頭香
Mandarin: qiang3 tou2 xiang1
scamble to be the first to obtain a benefit
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搶風頭
Mandarin: qiang3 feng1 tou5
upstage; steal the scene/show
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搶食
Mandarin: qiang3 shi2
Simplified: 抢食
feeding frenzy; fighting to make a living
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搶食
feeding frenzy
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搽
Mandarin: cha2
to apply (ointment, powder) | to smear | to paint on | to rub on | to put on | to anoint | # adapted from cc-cedict
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搽脂蕩粉
Mandarin: cha2 zhi1 dang4 fen3
Simplified: 搽脂荡粉
whitewash; to beautify; to put on make up
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搽葯膏
Cantonese
to apply ointment to the skin
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搽藥
Mandarin: cha2 yao4
Simplified: 搽药
to apply | rub on medicine
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摧
Mandarin: cui1
to break | to destroy | to devastate | to ravage | to repress | to injure | # adapted from cc-cedict
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摧
Mandarin: cui1
break; destroy; crush; wreck
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摧枯拉朽
Mandarin: cui1 ku1 la1 xiu3
to describe something that can easily be destroyed as it is already in ruins
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摧殘
Mandarin: cui1 can2
to ravage; to ruin
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摧毀
Mandarin: cui1 hui3
to destroy; to wreck; to ruin
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摷櫃桶
Cantonese
search the drawers
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