Cantonese Dictionary

落水

lok6 seoi2

Mandarin: luo4shui3

(dialect) Raining

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落水狗

lok6 seoi2 gau2

Mandarin: luo4 shui3 gou3

bad guy who doesn't get power anymore

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落注

lok6 zyu3

Mandarin: luo4 zhu4

to place a bet [colloquial]

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落淚

lok6 leoi6

Mandarin: luo4 lei4

lachrymosity, shed tears

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落湯鷄

lok6 tong1 gai1

Cantonese

soaked through; completely drenched

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落狗屎

lok6 gau2 si2

Mandarin: luo4 gou3 shi3

raining cats and dogs

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落班

lok6 baan1

Mandarin: luo4 ban1

off work; finish work (spoken)

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落畫

lok6 waa2

Mandarin: luo4 hua4

Simplified: 落画

screening finishes for a movie (spoken)

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落畫

lok6 waa6*2

Mandarin: luo4 hua4

Cantonese

for the term in which a movie plays at a cinema to be over

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落疊

lok6 daap6

Mandarin: luo4 die2

Simplified: 落叠

to agree to a deal; to buy into something [colloquial]

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落種

lok6 zung2

Mandarin: luo4 zhong3

Simplified: 落种

to sow seeds [colloquial]

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落空

lok6 hung1

Mandarin: luo4 kong1

come to nothing; fall through; end in smoke; fail

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落筆打三更

lok6 bat1 daa2 saam1 gaang1

Cantonese

to blunder at the very start; start off on the wrong foot; to falter at the gate; meet with initial setbacks; lose the first game

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落紅

lok6 hung4

Mandarin: luo4 hong2

Simplified: 落红

lost virginity; the show (during pregnancy when the plug of mucus from the cervix comes away); fallen flowers (a dated meaning)

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落網

lok6 mong5

Mandarin: luo4 wang3

to be captured/caught

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落肥

lok6 fei4

Mandarin: luo4 fei2

fertilize

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落胎

lok6 toi1

to abort a pregnancy

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落膈

lok6 gaak3

Mandarin: luo4 ge2

allow food to digest properly after meals (spoken)

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落臺

lok6 toi4

Mandarin: luo4 tai2

Simplified: 落台

to step down; to resign

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落船

lok6 syun4

Mandarin: luo4 chuan2

to board a boat (in the past when the pier is usually at a higher level compared to the boat); to disembark from a ship | boat, to go ashore (when the pier is a lower level compared to the boat | ship as is more common nowadays)

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落花

lok6 faa1

Mandarin: luo4 hua1

fallen flowers

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落花流水

lok6 faa1 lau4 seoi2

Mandarin: luo4 hua1 liu2 shui3

like fallen flowers carried away by the flowing water; utterly routed

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落草為寇

lok6 cou2 wai4 kau3

Mandarin: luo4 cao3 wei2 kou4

Simplified: 落草为寇

To escape into the forest and becomes an outlaw | bandit

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落荒而逃

lok6 fong1 ji4 tou4

Mandarin: luo4 huang1 er2 tao2

run away after being defeated

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落莊

lok6 zong1

Mandarin: luo4 zhuang1

Simplified: 落庄

to step down from a committee [colloquial]

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落葬

lok6 zong3

Mandarin: luo4 zang4

to bury a corpse at a funeral

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落街

lok6 gaai1

Mandarin: chu1 qu4

Simplified: 出去

Cantonese

to go out; to go downstairs (Cantonese)

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落袋

lok6 doi6*2

pocket (as in billards)

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落袋

lok6 doi2

Mandarin: luo4 dai4

to put in the pocket; to pocket

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落訂

lok6 deng6

Mandarin: luo4 ding4

Simplified: 落订

to pay the deposit

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