Cantonese Dictionary

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敬
Mandarin: jing4
to respect | to venerate | to salute | to offer | to honor | respectfully | to present | a gift | a surname | to show respect to | # adapted from cc-cedict
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敬上
Mandarin: jing4 shang4
(formal) respectfully, sincerely (at the end of a letter immediately after one's name); often just 上 is used in more familiar situations; for example: 亞當敬上 or just 亞當上 (亞當 is the name of this site's owner, Adam)
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敬你一杯
"to us!" (a toast)
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敬佩
Mandarin: jing4 pei4
admire, esteem
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敬啟
Mandarin: jing4 qi3
used as a respectful closing to a letter
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敬啟者
Mandarin: jing4 qi3 zhe3
"to whom it may concern" as the opening to a letter
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敬意
Mandarin: jing4 yi4
[n] respect; tribute; compliments
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敬愛
Mandarin: jing4 ai4
respect and love
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敬業樂業
Mandarin: jing4 ye4 le4 ye4
respected and enjoyed your work / occupation; devotion to work
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敬畏
Mandarin: jing4 wei4
revere and fear; respect and fear
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敬禮
Mandarin: jing4 li3
salute
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敬稱
Mandarin: jing4 cheng1
honorific; term of respect
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敬而遠之
Mandarin: jing4 er2 yuan3 zhi1
keep sb at a respectful distance; hold sb at arm's length; keep respectfully aloof from sb
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敬虔
Mandarin: jing4 qian2
pious; devout
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敬語
Mandarin: jing4 yu3
words of courtesy/politeness; respectful remarks
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敬請
Mandarin: jing4 qing3
respectfully request
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敬酒
Mandarin: jing4jiu3
(verb) Toast
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敬酒唔飲飲罰酒
Mandarin: jing4jiu3 wu2 yin3 yin3 fa2jiu3
Simplified: 敬酒唔饮饮罚酒
Cantonese
so you want to play it tough instead; you've asked for it [colloquial]
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敬重
to revere; respect; esteem; adore
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斤
Mandarin: jin1
catty | weight equal to 0.5 kg | (Tw) weight equal to 0.6 kg | an axe | shrewdly | hundred (bucks) | # adapted from cc-cedict
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斤両
Mandarin: jin1 liang3
ability of someone or something to influence decisions or actions; the importance attributed to something; the weight [written and colloquial]
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斤兩
weight
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斤斤計較
Mandarin: jin1 jin1 ji4 jiao3
haggle over every ounce; be calculating
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旡
Mandarin: ji4
to choke on something eaten | KangXi radical 71 | # adapted from cc-cedict
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既來之，則安之
Mandarin: ji4 lai2 zhi1 ji4 an1 zhi1
make the best out of the situation that one is in
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既往不咎
Mandarin: ji4 wang3 bu2 jiu4
let someone of the hook for past mistakes
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既然
Mandarin: ji4 ran2
since this is so; as this is the case; this being the case; because
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旮旯
Mandarin: ga1 la2
(coll. Mandarin) corner | Probably a corruption of 角落 | Cant.: 角落頭
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旮旯兒
Mandarin: ga1 la2r
nook; corner; out-of-the-way place
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景仰
Mandarin: jing3 yang3
to admire
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