Cantonese Dictionary

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打赤膊
bare-backed
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打起
Mandarin: da3 qi3
to fight; to beat; to hit; to be alert; to add
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打踭
Mandarin: da3 zheng1
fixing the heels of the shoes
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打躉
Mandarin: da3 dun3
Simplified: 打趸
hang around (spoken)
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打躬作揖
Mandarin: da3 gong1 zuo4 yi1
bow and scrape; bow and raise one's clasped hands in salute
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打車輪
Mandarin: da3 che1 lun2
Simplified: 打车轮
to french kiss
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打車輪
Cantonese
to french kiss | also 打茄輪
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打輸
Mandarin: da3 shu1
Simplified: 打输
to lose
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打輸數
Mandarin: da3 shu1 shu4
Simplified: 打输数
expecting failure; to prepare for the worst
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打轉
Mandarin: da3 zhuan4
to spin, rotate, revolve
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打返轉頭
Mandarin: da3 fan3 zhuan3 tou2
Simplified: 打返转头
to bouce back; to make a u-turn; to turn back [colloquial]
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打返電話
Cantonese
call back; ring back; reply to a call [華]: 回電話
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打退堂鼓
back out
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打通
get through; open up
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打通晒
Mandarin: da3tong1 shai4
to facilitate something by bribery [colloquial]
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打通關
Mandarin: da3 tong1 guan1
Simplified: 打通关
to play morra with everyone in a feast
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打通關係
Mandarin: da3tong1 guan1xi5
Simplified: 打通关系
Cantonese
to gain connections by bribery [colloquial]
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打造
Mandarin: da3 zao4
build; make; create; develop; forge
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打遊戲機
Mandarin: da3 you2 xi4 ji1
Simplified: 打游戏机
Playing video games
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打道
Mandarin: da3 dao4
to clear the way
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打邊爐
Mandarin: chi1 huo3 guo1
Simplified: 吃火锅
Cantonese
to have hot pot (Cantonese)
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打邊爐同打屎窟
Mandarin: da3 bian1 lu2 tong2 da3 shi3 ku1
Simplified: 打边炉同打屎窟
cannot be compared
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打醒
to wake up; to awaken
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打醒十二個精神
Cantonese
to be extremely alert (120% awake)
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打醒十二個精神
Mandarin: da3 xing3 shi2 er4 ge4 jing1 shen5
Simplified: 打醒十二个精神
to be attentive and highly concentrated
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打醒十二分精神
Mandarin: da3 xing3 shi2 er4 fen1 jing1 shen5
stay fully alert (slang)
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打醒精神
Cantonese
take care; look out; be careful; to be alert
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打醒精神
Mandarin: da3 xing3 jing1 shen5
to be attentive and concentrated
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打醮
Mandarin: da3 jiao4
Tai ping qing jiao, perform a Taoist ritual
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打量
Mandarin: da3 liang5
to size up; to take measure of
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