Cantonese Dictionary

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禽流感
Mandarin: qin2 liu2 gan3
bird flu; avian influenza
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禽獸
Mandarin: qin2 shou4
fur and feather; birds and beasts; inhuman
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禽獸行為
Mandarin: qin2 shou4 xing2 wei2
Simplified: 禽兽行为
brutish acts; beastly conduct
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禽畜
Mandarin: qin2 chu4
poultry and livestock
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稽
Mandarin: ji1
to kowtow | # adapted from cc-cedict
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稽留
Mandarin: ji1 liu2
To delay; to detain
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稽顙
Mandarin: ji1 sang3
kowtow (touch the forehead to the floor)
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稽首
Mandarin: qi3 shou3
To Bow down; kowtow
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穚
Mandarin: jiao1
the ears of grain crops; grain crops growing high; the thriving of weeds
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穹
Mandarin: qiong2
vault | dome | the sky | high and vast | elevated | arched | deep | # adapted from cc-cedict
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穹蒼
Mandarin: qiong2 cang1
the heavens; the vault of heaven; the sky
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窘
Mandarin: jiong3
distressed | embarrassed | hard-pressed | improverished | poverty-stricken | to be in difficulty | to be afflicted | awkward | # adapted from cc-cedict
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窘態
Mandarin: jiong3 tai4
Simplified: 窘态
Embarrassment
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窮
Mandarin: qiong2
Simplified: 穷
exhausted | poor | destitute | improverished | having an end | having a limit | most | extremely | utterly | thoroughly | to pursue to the limit | despite poverty | exhaustively | to exhaust | in trouble | without any way out | # adapted from cc-cedict
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窮人
Mandarin: qiong2 ren2
poor people; pauper; the poor
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窮到燶
Mandarin: qiong2 dao4 nong2
Simplified: 穷到㶶
too poor
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窮則思變
Mandarin: qiong2 ze2 si1 bian4
Simplified: 穷则思变
poverty gives rise to a desire to change for the better
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窮困
in poverty and distress; badly off; deprivation; to be poor
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窮巷
Mandarin: qiong2 xiang4
Simplified: 穷巷
no way to go; a blind alley
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窮愁潦倒
Mandarin: qiong2 chou2 liao2 dao3
living in poverty and feeling dispirited
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窮於應付
Mandarin: qiong2 yu2 ying4 fu4
be unable to cope with; to have exhausted every means of coping with sth.
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窮苦
Mandarin: qiong2 ku3
poor; improvished; destitute
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窮追
Mandarin: qiong2 zhui1
to be in hot pursuit; to vigorously pursue
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窮追不捨
Mandarin: qiong2 zhui1 bu4 she3
relentlessly pursue; be in hot pursuit of
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窮追猛打
Mandarin: qiong2 zhui1 meng3 da3
to vigorously pursue and fiercely attack
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窮途
Mandarin: qiong2 tu2
dead end; destitution; at the end of one\'s rope
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窮途潦倒
Mandarin: qiong2 tu2 liao2 dao3
be down and out
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窮過蒙正
Mandarin: qiong2 guo4 meng2 zheng4
Cantonese
extremely poor; even poorer than "呂蒙正" a model of someone poor
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窮酸
Mandarin: qiong2 suan1
(of a scholar) poor and pedantic; cheap
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窮餓
Mandarin: qiong2 e4
exhausted and hungry
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