Cantonese Dictionary

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爛生
Mandarin: lan4 sheng1
Simplified: 烂生
easy to grow; needs little attention
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爛癮
Mandarin: lan4 yin3
Simplified: 烂瘾
a strong addiction
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爛瞓
Mandarin: lan4 fen4
Simplified: 烂瞓
Cantonese
someone who sleeps a lot; someone who turns a lot or kicks off blankets when sleeping
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爛瞓豬
Mandarin: lan4 fen4 zhu1
Simplified: 烂瞓猪
Cantonese
describes a person who likes to sleep a lot; someone who sleeps all the time; a lazy person who doesn't want to get out of bed; literally 'a lazy sleeping pig'
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爛笪
Mandarin: lan4 da2
Simplified: 烂笪
unscrupulous [colloquial]
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爛笪笪
Mandarin: lan4 da2 da2
Simplified: 烂笪笪
describes a person who has no integrity and is shameless; tattered
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爛船都仲有三斤釘
Mandarin: lan4 chuan2 dou1 zhong4 you3 san1 jin1 ding1
Simplified: 烂船都仲有三斤钉
'the worst of the rich is still better than that of the poor'
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爛船都有三斤釘
Mandarin: lan4 chuan2 dou1 you3 san1 jin1 ding1
Simplified: 烂船都有三斤钉
there must be something useful in anything broken or disused (slang)
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爛茶渣
Mandarin: lan4 cha2 zha1
Simplified: 烂茶渣
(noun) things that are no use; no value or in bad conditions. Usually, this term implies to women over thirty
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爛茸茸
Cantonese
ragged
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爛蓉蓉
Mandarin: lan4 rong2 rong2
Simplified: 烂蓉蓉
tattered or ragged
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爛賤
Mandarin: lan4 jian4
Simplified: 烂贱
worthless; cheap (spoken)
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爛賬
indiscriminate borrowing; overdrawn/bad account
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爛賭
Mandarin: lan4 du3
Simplified: 烂赌
(adjective) to describe someone with a compulsive gambling problem; to describe someone who is a gambling addict | ludomania; (verb) to be addicted to gambling
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爛賭二
Cantonese
a gambling addict
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爛賭二
Mandarin: lan4 du3 er4
Simplified: 烂赌二
gambling addict (spoken)
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爛賭鬼
Mandarin: lan4 du3 gui3
Simplified: 烂赌鬼
a compulsive gambler [colloquial]
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爛身爛勢
Mandarin: lan4 shen1 lan4 shi4
Simplified: 烂身烂势
to dress in tattered and worn out clothing
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爛酒
Mandarin: lan4 jiu3
Simplified: 烂酒
alcoholism
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爛酒佬
Mandarin: lan4 jiu3 lao3
Simplified: 烂酒佬
(noun) alcoholic
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爛銅爛鐵
Mandarin: lan4 tong2 lan4 tie3
Simplified: 烂铜烂铁
(noun) scrap metals
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爛頭島
Mandarin: lan4 tou2 dao3
lautau island; lautau, the old Chinese name of the largest island of Hong Kong ( now the official name is 大嶼山 )
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爛頭蟀
Mandarin: lan4 tou2 shuai4
Simplified: 烂头蟀
someone who fights ferociously, especially a gangster; someone who is willing to risk it all despite being in a disadvantaged position
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爛食
Mandarin: lan4 shi2
Simplified: 烂食
(adjective) gluttonous
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爛飯
Mandarin: lan4 fan4
Simplified: 烂饭
softened rice
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爛鬥爛
Mandarin: lan4 dou4 lan4
Simplified: 烂斗烂
cannot be worse than the way it is now; the worst of the worst
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爛鬼
Mandarin: lan4 gui3
Simplified: 烂鬼
broken; worthless; a hoodlum; a thug
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爧
Mandarin: ling2
Simplified: 𫞠
flickering of fire | # adapted from cc-cedict
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牢
Mandarin: lao2
firm | sturdy | fold (for animals) | sacrifice | prison | to secure | cattle and sheep | a surname | sad | strong | stable | # adapted from cc-cedict
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牢不可破
Mandarin: lao2 bu4 ke3 po4
(proverb) something is very strong and unbreakable indissoluble; Or someone's belief is adamant.
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