Cantonese Dictionary

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攋
Mandarin: la4
Simplified: 𪮶
to leave behind | to omit | to urinate | defecate involuntarily | # adapted from cc-cedict
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攋低
Mandarin: la4 di1
to left behind one's belonging accidently
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攋嘢
Cantonese
be tricked; get into difficulties; have an accident or misfortune; be arrested by the police
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攎
Mandarin: lu2
to take hold; to curb; to exercise restraint
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攎
Mandarin: Lu2
picking; selection
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攏
Mandarin: long3
Simplified: 拢
to gather together | to collect | to approach | to draw near to | to add | to sum up | to comb (hair) | # adapted from cc-cedict
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攔
Mandarin: lan2
Simplified: 拦
to block sb's path | to obstruct | to flag down (a taxi) | to hold back | to intercept | # adapted from cc-cedict
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攔住
Mandarin: lan2 zhu4
to stop; to bar the way
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攔截
Mandarin: lan2 jie2
to intercept, interrupt, obstruct
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攔手
Mandarin: lan2 shou3
barring arm (one of the Wing Chun/Ving Tsun kung fu 詠春拳's hand movement)
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攔河
Mandarin: lan2 he2
Simplified: 拦河
to block off the river (with a dam | weir)
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攔路
Mandarin: lan2 lu4
block the way
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攞
Mandarin: na2
Simplified: 拿
Cantonese
to take; to get (Cantonese)
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攞人命
Mandarin: luo3 ren2 ming4
Cantonese
take sb's life; of conditions to be bad enough to almost kill sb.
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攞位
Mandarin: luo2 wei4
to position one's camera to take a photograph at a certain angle; to take the place | seat [colloquial]
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攞便宜
Cantonese
gain extra advantage by unfair means; profit at other people's expense (lit., "to take cheaply")
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攞便宜
Mandarin: luo1 bian4 yi2
taking advantage of one
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攞去填海
Mandarin: luo2 qu4 tian2hai3
describes something or someone that is so useless that they should be just dumped into the sea [colloquial]
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攞命
Mandarin: luo1 ming4
(adj.) dreadful; awful; terrible; to describe something that is so bad to the extent that it is enough to cause one's death (a gross exaggeration); 'a real killer')(v.) to kill somebody; to take somebody's life; (adverb) extremely; terribly; awfully.
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攞嚟搞
Cantonese
to go looking for trouble
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攞嚟搞
Mandarin: luo1 li2 gao3
Cantonese
asking for trouble, get some unnecessary work for themselves
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攞嚟衰
Mandarin: luo1 li2 shuai1
Cantonese
(slang) to ask for trouble; to stew in one's own juice
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攞嚟衰
Cantonese
to bring misfortune to oneself; to get one's own just desserts | Short for 自己攞嚟衰 | Compare with 搵笨 | Mand.: 自找麻煩; 自討苦吃
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攞嚟講
Mandarin: luo1 li2 jiang3
Simplified: 攞嚟讲
Cantonese
to bring up unnecessary or trivial topics
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攞嚟賤
Mandarin: luo1 li2 jian4
Simplified: 攞嚟贱
Cantonese
describes a person who willingly causes a problem | issue to himself | herself; deserved.
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攞嚟辛苦
Mandarin: luo1 li2 xin1 ku3
Cantonese
asking for trouble; creating unnecessary work for oneself
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攞彩
Mandarin: luo1 cai3
to describe the act of showing off despite it being unwelcomed
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攞意頭
Mandarin: luo1 yi4 tou2
Simplified: 攞意头
to get a symbolic and lucky meaning
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攞料
Mandarin: luo3 liao4
gather or collect information (esp. of a reporter for a new story etc.)[syn.]撲料；搲料；刮料
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攞晒彩
Mandarin: luo2 shai4 cai3
to win all the glory [colloquial]
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