Cantonese Dictionary

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跌價
Mandarin: die2 jia4
to go down in price
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跌入
Mandarin: die1 ru4
to fall into
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跌咁多
Cantonese
a little bit
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跌咗
Mandarin: die1 zuo5
Cantonese
dropped; lost (spoken)
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跌咗落地嗱番乍沙
Mandarin: die1 zuo5 luo4di4 na2 fan1 zha4 sha1
Cantonese
to give poor excuse to cover up one's faults | mistakes | failure inorder to save one's face [colloquial]
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跌嚫
Mandarin: die1 chen4
Cantonese
get injured in a fall
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跌多
a little bit
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跌幅
range of a price drop
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跌打
Mandarin: die1 da3
bone-setter; Chinese medical practitioning on bones and muscles
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跌打酒
Mandarin: die1 da3 jiu3
a liniment for traumatic injuries
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跌眼鏡
Cantonese
to make a wrong prediction or an error of judgement (lit., "to drop glasses")
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跌眼鏡
Mandarin: die1 yan3 jing4
Simplified: 跌眼镜
(slang) someone gets disappointed because makes wrong expectation and prediction on people or events
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跌落
Mandarin: die1 luo4
to fall; to fall down; to fall into
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跌落地揦返拃沙
Mandarin: die1 luo4 di4 la2 fan3 zhan3 sha1
Cantonese
to salvage one's pride; to save face; to pretend that one did not make a mess of things, although in fact one did mess up | Lit.: "To (accidentally trip and) fall, but (to pretend) to grab some sand (as if that was the purpose of going down on the ground)" | Sometimes as 跌咗揦返拃沙 or 跌倒揦返拃沙 or 跌咗落地拿返拃沙
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跌親
Mandarin: die1 qin1
Simplified: 跌亲
to tumble; to fall over; to fall down; to fall on one's face
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跌跤
Cantonese
stumble, trip, fall
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踏
Mandarin: ta4
to tread | to stamp | to step on | to press a pedal | to investigate on the spot | to trample | to walk | steady | free from anxiety | # adapted from cc-cedict
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踏兩頭船
Mandarin: ta4 liang3 tou2 chuan2
Simplified: 踏两头船
literally: 'stepping on two ships with one foot', to date two people at the same time; two-timing
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踏唔切
Mandarin: ta4 wu2 qie4
Cantonese
(of a car) not brake in time
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踏單車
Mandarin: ta4 dan1 che1
Simplified: 踏单车
to ride a bike
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踏實
Mandarin: ta1 shi5
Simplified: 踏实
down-to-earth | good foundation
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踏月
Mandarin: ta4 yue4
take a walk under the moonlight
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踏板
Mandarin: ta4 ban3
a pedal; a footrest
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踏正
Cantonese
on the dot (i.e. 三點鐘踏正 = 3 o'clock exactly)
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踏正
Mandarin: ta4 zheng4
on the spot (timing; spoken)
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踏步
footfall; mark time
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踏水
[v] to tread water
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踏破鐵鞋無覓處
Mandarin: ta4 po4 tie3 xie2 wu2 mi4 chu4
Simplified: 踏破铁鞋无觅处
to describe something that is nowhere to be found even after painstakingly exhausting all of one's energy and effort to look for it
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踏腳石
Mandarin: ta4 jiao3 shi2
Simplified: 踏脚石
a stepping stone (a metaphor for someone who is being used as a stepping stone by others to reach their goals)
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踏足
Mandarin: ta4 zu2
set foot on
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