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敵意
Mandarin: di2 yi4
enmity; hostility; animosity
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敵手
Mandarin: di2 shou3
antagonist
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敵方
Mandarin: di2 fang1
enemy
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敵視
Mandarin: di2 shi4
to be antagonistic
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斗令
Cantonese
[1] a 5 cent coin, five cents (also sometimes seen as 斗零) [2] "darling" as a loanword
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斗令
Mandarin: dou4 ling4
describes the amount of money – a small amount | a little bit; half dime
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斗六
Mandarin: dou3 liu4
Touliu (city in Taiwan)
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斗南鎮
Mandarin: dou3 nan2 zhen4
Tounan (town in Taiwan)
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斗底
Mandarin: dou3 di3
Chinese pomfret, a kind of fish, popular for the table | Sometimes called 斗底白鯧 or 斗底鯧 | Scientific name: Pampus chinensis | This fish with this name is encountered more often in Malaysia and Singapore
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斗篷
Mandarin: dou3 peng5
a cape; a cloak | [粵]: 披風
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斗轉星移
Mandarin: dou3 zhuan3 xing1 yi2
(of time or seasons) to pass by; to change
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斗門
Mandarin: dou3 men2
Doumen (place in Guangdong)
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斗零
Mandarin: dou4 ling2
a cent (slang)
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斗零
Cantonese
[1] five cents [Var.] 斗令 [Syn.] 五仙 [華]: 五分 [2] "darling" as a loanword [Var.] 打令
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斷
Mandarin: duan4
Simplified: 断
to break | to snap | to cut off | to give up or abstain from sth | to discontinue | apart | # adapted from cc-cedict
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斷代史
Mandarin: duan4 dai4 shi3
Simplified: 断代史
the Dynasty history
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斷估
Mandarin: duan4 gu1
Simplified: 断估
(v.) to take a wild guess.
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斷定
Mandarin: duan4 ding4
to come to a conclusion [粵]: 睇白
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斷搶
Mandarin: duan4 qiang3
Simplified: 断抢
to complete for; to push, rob to get to someone | something
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斷搶
Mandarin: duan4 qiang3
Cantonese
to practically scramble for; to fight for sth.; to vie for
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斷擔挑
Mandarin: duan4 dan1 tiao1
Simplified: 断担挑
the living costs and burden from having many children are too heavy to take up
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斷斷
Mandarin: duan4 duan4
Simplified: 断断
adj; faithful, absolute
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斷然
Mandarin: duan4 ran2
absolutely; firmly
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斷片
Mandarin: duan4 pian4
1.a fragment 2. (Canto only) blackout after drinking too much
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斷窮根
Mandarin: duan4 qiong2 gen1
Simplified: 断穷根
to escape poverty
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斷章取義
Mandarin: duan4 zhang1 qu3 yi4
quote out of context
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斷背
Mandarin: duan4 bei4
[derog.] homosexuality, from the movie title 「斷背山（Brokeback Mountain）」. An alternate title for the movie in China is also 斷臂山. 斷臂 (Broken arm) probably derived from 斷袖 (Breaking Sleeve), the old Chinese term for homosexuality coined by Han Emperor Ai 哀.
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斷背山
Mandarin: duan4 bei4 shan1
Brokeback Mountain
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斷臂
Mandarin: duan4 bi4
armless; cut-off/broken arm(s)
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斷袖
Mandarin: duan4 xiu4
[derog.] homosexuality, (Breaking Sleeve), the old Chinese term for homosexuality coined by Han Emperor Ai.
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