Cantonese Dictionary

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頸鍊
Mandarin: jing3 lian4
Simplified: 颈炼
a necklace
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頸鏈
Cantonese
necklace -- may also be written as 頸鍊 (Standard Chinese: 項鏈 or 項鍊)
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顧
Mandarin: gu4
Simplified: 顾
to look after | to take into consideration | to attend to | a surname | to look back | to look at | to look around | however | thus | so | nevertheless | indeed | really | to visit | to patronize | customer | patron | client | # adapted from cc-cedict
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顧主
Mandarin: gu4 zhu3
Simplified: 顾主
an employer
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顧住
Mandarin: gu4 zhu5
Simplified: 顾住
(verb) to pay attention to; to take care of; to watch for; to be mindful of; to be careful; to look after; to keep thinking about
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顧住收尾嗰兩年
Mandarin: gu4 zhu5 shou1wei3 ge3 liang3 nian2
Simplified: 顾住收尾嗰两年
Cantonese
watch out, you will pay for this in time [colloquial]
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顧全大局
Mandarin: gu4 quan2 da4 ju2
to look the big picture; to take a holistic view
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顧及
Mandarin: gu4 ji2
Simplified: 顾及
(verb) Concern about
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顧名思義
Mandarin: gu4 ming2 si1 yi4
as the name implies
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顧命
Mandarin: gu4 ming4
Simplified: 顾命
not willing to sacrifice; to be apprehensive of one's life
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顧問
Mandarin: gu4 wen4
adviser, consultant
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顧客
Mandarin: gu4 ke4
client, customer
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顧家
Mandarin: gu4 jia1
Simplified: 顾家
family-oriented
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顧左右而言他
Mandarin: gu4 zuo3 you4 er2 yan2 ta1
Simplified: 顾左右而言他
(literally: look at both sides and talk about something away from the topic) ; to speak evasively
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顧得頭嚟腳反筋
Mandarin: gu4 de2 tou2 li2 jiao3 fan3 jin1
Simplified: 顾得头嚟脚反筋
Cantonese
to attend to one thing and lose another; to focus on one thing and neglect another thing; to pay attention to one aspect and overlook another
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顧忌
Mandarin: gu4 ji4
scruple, misgiving
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顧忠
Mandarin: gu4 zhong1
Gu Zhong
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顧念
Mandarin: gu4 nian4
take into consideration; take into account
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顧慮
Mandarin: gu4 lv4
misgivings; apprehensions; worry
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顧此失彼
Mandarin: gu4 ci3 shi1 bi3
to focus on one thing and neglect another thing; pay attention to one aspect and overlook another
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顧盼
Mandarin: gu4 pan4
Simplified: 顾盼
to look around
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顧面
for the sake of face
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顧面
Mandarin: gu4 mian4
Simplified: 顾面
to care about others' opinion; for the sake of one's face; to save face; to keep up one's appearances; to spare somebody's feelings
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顧面子
for the sake of face
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顧食唔顧著
Mandarin: gu4 shi2 m2 gu4 zhe5
Simplified: 顾食唔顾着
Cantonese
to only care about eating and totally neglect one's appearance
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颳
Mandarin: gua1
to blow
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颳風
Mandarin: gua1 feng1
to be windy
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颶
Mandarin: ju4
Simplified: 飓
hurricane | cyclone | typhoon | gale | # adapted from cc-cedict
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颶風
Mandarin: ju4 feng1
Simplified: 飓风
(noun) (of storm) Typhoon
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飢
Mandarin: ji1
Simplified: 饥
hungry | starving | famine | hunger | # adapted from cc-cedict
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