Cantonese Dictionary

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一站式
Mandarin: yi1 zhan4 shi4
One-stop (service)
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一端
Mandarin: yi1 duan1
at one end of
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一竹篙打一船人
Mandarin: yi1 zhu2 gao1 da3 yi1 chuan2 ren2
a pole hits a boat of people, which means one holds onto someone's wrong and thinks the rest of others are the same
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一竹篙打晒一船人
someone who generalises someone, "to tar everyone with the same brush"
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一竹篙打死一船人
Mandarin: yi1 zhu2 gao1 da3 si3 yi1 chuan2 ren2
a pole hits and kills a boat of people, which means one holds onto someone's wrong and thinks the rest of others are the same
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一竹篙打沉一船人
someone who generalises someone, "to tar everyone with the same brush"
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一竹篙揇沉一船人
Mandarin: yi1 zhu2 gao1 nan3 chen2 yi1 chuan2 ren2
Tar with the same bush, meaning to believe wrongly that someone or something has the same bad qualities as someone or something that is similar
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一笑千金
Mandarin: yi1 xiao4 qian1 jin1
a gleaming or charming smile is priceless
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一笑置之
to laugh off, dismiss with a laugh; laugh out of court
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一筆
Mandarin: yi1bi3
Simplified: 一笔
a brushstroke; a large sum of (money) [written and colloquial]
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一筆ＯＵＴ銷
Mandarin: yi1 bi3ＯＵＴ xiao1
Simplified: 一笔ＯＵＴ销
the weakest link, name of a TV show [written and colloquial]
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一筆抹殺
Mandarin: yi1 bi3 mo3 sha1
blot out at one stroke; condemn out of hand; totally negate
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一筆抹煞
Mandarin: yi1 bi3 mo3 sha1
reject offhand
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一筆還一筆
Mandarin: yi1 bi3 hai2 yi1 bi3
Simplified: 一笔还一笔
one account apart from one account, it means to separate one event from another instead of combining them together
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一等兵
Mandarin: yi1 deng3 bing1
private first class (military)
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一箭雙雕
Mandarin: yi1 jian4 shuang1 diao1
Simplified: 一箭双雕
kill two birds with one stone; achieve two things at one stroke; serve double purpose (idiom)
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一箸夾中
Mandarin: yi1 zhu4 jia1 zhong1
Simplified: 一箸夹中
a person who has an accurate guess in the first attempt
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一節
Mandarin: yi1 jie2
a length (of something)
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一節詩
Mandarin: yi1 jie2 shi1
stanza
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一籌莫展
Mandarin: yi1*4 chou2 mo4 zhan3
not even have one single solution or strategy to
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一粒嘢
Mandarin: yi1 li4 ye3
Cantonese
classifier of extremely small item (ie dust, rice, mole, raindrops etc)
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一粒神
Mandarin: yi1 li4 shen2
one cent coin
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一粒神
ten cents
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一粒臣
Mandarin: yi1 li4 chen2
10 Hong Kong cents (1 | 10th of a Hong Kong dollar) [colloquial]
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一粒花
Cantonese
a police inspector (based on badge appearance)
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一粒花
Mandarin: yi1 li4 hua1
probationary police inspector, who has a star on the badge
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一粒鐘
Mandarin: yi1 li4 zhong1
Simplified: 一粒钟
one hour [colloquial]
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一系列
Mandarin: yi1 xi4 lie4
a series of; a group of; a collection of
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一級
first (top) grade or rank
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一級市場
Mandarin: yi1 ji2 shi4 chang2
primary market
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