Cantonese Dictionary

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打死狗講價
Mandarin: da3 si3 gou3 jiang3 jia4
Simplified: 打死狗讲价
an unethical way of business dealing where the trader indirectly forces the customer to pay a higher price afterwards when it is too late to reverse the deal
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打死纈
Mandarin: da3 si3 xie2
Simplified: 打死缬
to tie a dead knot
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打比
Mandarin: da3 bi3
Derby; Hong Kong Derby
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打比郡
Mandarin: da3 bi3 jun4
Derbyshire County, United Kingdom
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打氣
Mandarin: da3 qi4
Simplified: 打气
(verb) Pump someone up;
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打氣筒
Mandarin: da3 qi4 tong3
an air pump
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打氣隊
Mandarin: da3 qi4 dui4
supporters
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打沉
Mandarin: da3 chen2
verb; to discourage; decline; reject; dishearten
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打波
Mandarin: da3 qiu2
Simplified: 打球
Cantonese
to play ball (Cantonese)
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打滾
Mandarin: da3 gun3
roll about; wallow; flounder; sway
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打潛艇
Cantonese
masturbation, to masturbate (female) - a variation of the male term 打飛機 using a submarine instead of an aeroplane, presumably because of the "diving" action of submarines...
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打瀉茶
Mandarin: da3 xie4 cha2
Simplified: 打泻茶
to spill the tea; it describes the situation when women are assigned to marry a certain men, and has accepted the marriage proposal gifts, yet the future husband pass away before having the wedding ceremony
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打火機
lighter
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打炮
to masturbate
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打烊
Mandarin: da3 yang2
to close a store for the night, to shut up shop [Var.] 打煬
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打爆機
Mandarin: da3 bao4 ji1
Simplified: 打爆机
finish all stages of a game (spoken)
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打爆油缸
Mandarin: da3 bao4 you2 gang1
lit. hit the fuel tank until it explodes, meaning to refuel complete to the gas or petrol tank to its max
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打爛
Mandarin: da3 lan4
Simplified: 打烂
to break or destroy
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打爛咗
Mandarin: da3 lan4 zuo5
Simplified: 打烂咗
Cantonese
to have shattered something [colloquial]
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打爛沙盤問到篤
Mandarin: da3 lan4 sha1 pan2 wen4 dao4 du3
Simplified: 打烂沙盘问到笃
to investigate and find out everything; to keep asking many many questions; to ask many questions to try to get to the bottom of something
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打爛砂盆問到篤
Mandarin: da3 lan4 sha1 pen2 wen4 dao4 du3
Simplified: 打烂砂盆问到笃
to find things out in a thorough way by asking every detail
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打爛齋缽
Mandarin: da3 lan4 zhai1 bo1
Simplified: 打烂斋钵
fail to maintain self-discipline; fail to keep up with one's resolution (restricted diet e.g.)
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打爛齋鉢
Mandarin: da3 lan4 zhai1 bo1
Simplified: 打烂斋鉢
end a period of abstention (Lent, Ramadan, etc); break a resolution; to break a precept; to breach the principles
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打牌
Mandarin: da3 pai2
play mahjong; play cards; (Mahjong) discard a tile
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打牌九
Mandarin: da3 pai2 jiu3
to play a game of Chinese dominoes
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打牙鉸
Mandarin: da3 ya2 jiao3
Simplified: 打牙铰
verb; chatting, chew the fat
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打牙骹
Mandarin: da3 ya2 qiao1
to chat
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打獵
Mandarin: da3 lie4
go hunting
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打獻
Mandarin: da2 xian4
Cantonese
variant of 打芡
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打球
Mandarin: da3 qiu2
to play ball
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