Cantonese Dictionary

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鬼咁
Cantonese
terribly, awfully, dreadfully, "damned"
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鬼咁過癮
Mandarin: gui3 gan1 guo4yin3
Simplified: 鬼咁过瘾
Cantonese
very exciting; very fun [colloquial]
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鬼咁長氣
Mandarin: gui3 gan1 zhang3 qi4
Simplified: 鬼咁长气
Cantonese
to be very long-winded [colloquial]
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鬼噉
Mandarin: gui3 dan4
Simplified: 鬼啖
Cantonese
extremely; terribly; horribly; immensely; outrageously
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鬼地方
hell around
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鬼城
Mandarin: gui3 cheng2
a ghost city [written and colloquial]
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鬼壓床
Mandarin: gui3 ya1 chuang2
sleep paralysis (lit., "ghost pressing on bed") | [Syn.] 鬼壓身
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鬼壓身
Mandarin: gui3 ya1 shen1
sleep paralysis (lit., "ghost pressing on body") [Syn.] 鬼壓床
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鬼妹
Mandarin: gui3 mei4
(noun) western girl; caucasian girl
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鬼妹
Cantonese
a Caucasian girl (may be considered derogatory depending on the context) -- lit. "ghost girl" so called because of their pale complexion
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鬼婆
Cantonese
a Caucasian woman (may be considered derogatory depending on the context) -- lit. "ghost woman" so called because of their pale complexion
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鬼子
Mandarin: gui3 zi5
devil (a term of abuse for foreign invaders)
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鬼屋
a haunted house
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鬼崇
Mandarin: gui3 chong2
sneaky; sneakily; furtive; stealthy [written]
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鬼市
Mandarin: gui3 shi4
overnight market
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鬼影
Mandarin: gui3 ying3
ghost (human) shadow, normally used in the context鬼影都冇隻 when a place is completely deserted, with not even a shadow present
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鬼影都冇隻
Mandarin: gui3 ying3 dou1 mao3 zhi1
Simplified: 鬼影都冇只
Cantonese
do not see anyone; a deserted place (spoken)
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鬼怪
ghosts and monsters; evil spirits; a goblin; a specter; a sprite
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鬼才
Mandarin: gui3 cai2
genius;wizard;talent; 'no one will…'; 'who would…'
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鬼打
Mandarin: gui3 da3
unbelievably; outrageously; (exclamatory phrase) 鬼打!: utterly impossible!; sheer nonsense!; simply absurb!; nothing of the sort!; 鬼打呀! | 鬼打咩!: "you must have been possessed"; "what has gotten into you!"; "what's up with you"
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鬼打都冇咁醒
Mandarin: gui3 da3 dou1 mao3 gan1 xing3
Cantonese
very clever, smart, ingenuity
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鬼打鬼
Mandarin: gui3 da3 gui3
(slang) infighting; internecine conflict of the people involved; quarrel among a group internally; falling out amongst villians
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鬼把戲
Mandarin: gui3 ba3 xi4
sinister plot; dirty trick
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鬼拍後尾枕
Mandarin: gui3 pai1 hou4 wei3 zhen3
Simplified: 鬼拍后尾枕
slips of the tongue; Freudian slip (slang)
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鬼揞眼
Mandarin: gui3 an3 yan3
a situation where a person can't see or notice something obvious; literally: 'ghost blocking the vision'; a Freudian slip
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鬼搰
Mandarin: gui3 hu2
cunning
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鬼故
Cantonese
a ghost story
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鬼故
Mandarin: gui3 gu4
ghost stories;a horror story
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鬼故事
Mandarin: gui3 gu4 shi4
a ghost story | [粵] 鬼故
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鬼死
Mandarin: gui3 si3
so (spoken)
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