Cantonese Dictionary

禁地

gam3 dei6

Mandarin: jin4 di4

Forbidden place

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禁忌症

gam3 gei6 zing3

Mandarin: jin4 ji4 zheng4

[Medicine] contraindication: something (as a symptom or condition) that makes a particular treatment or procedure inadvisable

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禁書

gam3 syu1

Mandarin: jin4 shu1

banned books

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禁果

gam3 gwo2

Mandarin: jin4 guo3

forbidden fruit (used as a metaphor for "forbidden" pleasures and vices)

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禁止

gam3 zi2

Mandarin: jin4 zhi3

to prohibit; to ban; to disallow; prohibited; disallowed; forbidden

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禁止通行

gam3 zi2 tung1 hang4

Mandarin: jin4 zhi3 tong1 xing2

No entry

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禁止進入

gam3 zi2 zeon3 jap6

Mandarin: jin4 zhi3 jin4 ru4

no entry; entry forbidden (public signage)

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禁煙區

gam3 jin1 keoi1

Mandarin: jin4 yan1 qu1

non-smoking area [Syn.] 非吸煙區 , 非煙區

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禁藥

gam3 joek6

Mandarin: jin4 yao4

a prohibited drug/banned substances (e.g., for athletes)

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禁運

gam3 wan6

Mandarin: jin4 yun4

embargo

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禁錮

gam3 gu3

Mandarin: jin4 gu4

to ban a person from government service; to imprison, keep in custody, confine

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禁飛名單

gam3 fei1 ming4 daan1

Mandarin: jin4 fei1 ming2 dan1

No Fly List

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禁食

gam3 sik6

Mandarin: jin4 shi2

abstain from food; fast

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稈

gon2

Mandarin: gan3

Simplified: 秆

stalks of grain | straw | # adapted from cc-cedict

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稿

gou2

Mandarin: gao3

manuscript | draft | stalk of grain | to discuss | to engage in doing | article | piece of writing | # adapted from cc-cedict

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稿件

gou2 gin6

Mandarin: gao3 jian4

[1] rough draft; manuscript [2] contribution (to a final document)

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稿子

gou2 zi2

Mandarin: gao3 zi5

[1] draft; sketch [2] manuscript; contribution [3] idea; plan

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稿紙

gou2 zi2

Mandarin: gao3 zhi3

draft paper

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穀倉

guk1 cong1

Mandarin: gu3 cang1

granary

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穀場

guk1 coeng4

Mandarin: gu3 chang2

a threshing floor

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穀子

guk1 zi2

Mandarin: gu3 zi5

[1] millet [2] (regional) unhusked rice

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穀牛

guk1 ngau4

Mandarin: gou4 niu2

rice weevil

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穀雨

guk1 jyu5

Mandarin: gu3 yu3

Grain Rain, 6th of the 24 solar terms 20th April-4th May

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究

gau3

Mandarin: jiu1

to investigate | to study carefully | Taiwan pr. [jiù] | to examine | to dig into | after all | actually | really | in the end | ultimately | # adapted from cc-cedict

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究竟

gau3 ging2

Mandarin: jiu4 jing4 (Taiwan), jiu1 jing4 (PRC)

adv. [1] actually; exactly [2] after all; in the end. n. outcome; what actually happened

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窖

gaau3

Mandarin: jiao4

cellar | pit | # adapted from cc-cedict

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窟

gwat6

Mandarin: ku1

cave | hole | cellar | underground | pit | cavity | den | hiding place | a chuck | portion of, a quantifier | # adapted from cc-cedict

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竟

ging2

Mandarin: jing4

unexpectedly | actually | to go so far as to | indeed | finally | after all | at last | to finish | to complete | to accomplish | territory | the end | to investigate | ultimately | to one's surprise | throughout | whole | # adapted from cc-cedict

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竟然

ging2 jin4

Mandarin: jing4 ran2

unexpectedly; still; surprisingly

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競

ging6 ging3

Mandarin: jing4

compete; vie; contend; contest

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