Cantonese Dictionary

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爐灶
Mandarin: lu2 zao4
stove, cooking range
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爐頭
Mandarin: lu2 tou2
(stove) burner
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爛
Mandarin: lan4
Simplified: 烂
soft | mushy | well-cooked and soft | to rot | to decompose | rotten | worn out | chaotic | utterly | thoroughly | crappy | bad | spoiled | decayed | bright coloured | cheesy | crummy | lacking style | to be addicted to | broken | damaged | incomplete | mashed | sodden | low quality | messy | very | extremely | # adapted from cc-cedict
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爛ｇａｇ
Mandarin: lan4 g a g
Simplified: 烂ｇａｇ
a cheesy | bad joke
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爛仔
Mandarin: lan4 zai3
Simplified: 烂仔
(noun) a gangster; a goon; a thug, a hoodlum
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爛佬
Mandarin: lan4 lao3
Simplified: 烂佬
unreasonable adult male (spoken)
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爛口
Mandarin: lan4 kou3
Simplified: 烂口
(adj.) describes someone who uses swear words and foul language a lot
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爛口角
Mandarin: lan4 kou3 jiao3
Simplified: 烂口角
(illness) mouth blister
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爛口鬼
foul-mouthed, a potty mouth
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爛叻
Cantonese
variant of 讕叻
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爛命
Mandarin: lan4 ming4
Simplified: 烂命
furious; reckless; desperate
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爛命一條
Mandarin: lan4 ming4 yi1 tiao2
Simplified: 烂命一条
an unworthy life with nothing to lose [colloquial]
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爛咗
Mandarin: lan4 zuo5
Simplified: 烂咗
Cantonese
broken (spoken)
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爛喊
Mandarin: lan4 han3
Simplified: 烂喊
cry easily (spoken)
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爛喊貓
Mandarin: lan4 han3 mao1
Simplified: 烂喊猫
cry-baby (spoken)
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爛尾
Cantonese
an abandoned project (lit., "broken tail")
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爛巿
Mandarin: lan4 fu2
Simplified: 烂巿
unsellable goods
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爛市
Mandarin: lan4 shi4
Simplified: 烂市
poor sales figures or demand
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爛打
Mandarin: lan4 da3
Simplified: 烂打
love to pick fights (spoken)
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爛數
Mandarin: lan4 shu4
Simplified: 烂数
bad debt (spoken)
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爛泥
Mandarin: lan4 ni2
mud, slime, slush, ooze | [粵]: 爛湴, 湴, 泥湴
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爛泥扶唔上壁
Mandarin: lan4 ni2 fu2 m2 shang4 bi4
Simplified: 烂泥扶唔上壁
Cantonese
(derogatory slang) (with figurative meaning) when someone is lacking in ability | motivation, he | she will not be successful no matter how others help them; you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
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爛湴
Mandarin: lan4 ban4
Simplified: 烂湴
muddy (spoken)
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爛溶溶
Mandarin: lan4 rong2 rong2
Simplified: 烂溶溶
worn to bits and pieces; ragged
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爛漫
Mandarin: lan4 man4
unaffected and behaving naturally
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爛熔熔
worn out, rotten
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爛爆
Mandarin: lan4 bao4
Cantonese
bad; lousy; crappy; crummy; bad quality; to suck
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爛牙
Mandarin: lan4 ya2
Simplified: 烂牙
(noun) cavity
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爛玩
Mandarin: lan4 wan2
Simplified: 烂玩
to play | fool around
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爛瓦
Mandarin: lan4 wa3
Simplified: 烂瓦
literally: broken tile; a cat [colloquial]
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