Cantonese Dictionary

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買定離手
Mandarin: mai3 ding4 li2 shou3
Simplified: 买定离手
place your bets and hands off the table [colloquial]
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買家
Mandarin: mai3 jia1
buyer; purchaser; client
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買家市場
buyer's market
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買少見少
Mandarin: mai3 shao3 jian4 shao3
Simplified: 买少见少
scarce in supply (spoken)
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買成
to be able to buy successfully
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買手
Mandarin: mai3 shou3
Simplified: 买手
buyer
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買方
Mandarin: mai3 fang1
buyer (in contracts)
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買方市場
Mandarin: mai3 fang1 shi4 chang2
buyer's market
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買東西
Mandarin: mai3 dong1 xi5
to go shopping (lit., "buy things")
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買板唔知埞
Mandarin: mai3 ban3 n2 zhi1 di3
Simplified: 买板唔知埞
Cantonese
what the hell are you playing at?; to act recklessly [colloquial]
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買棺材唔知埞
Mandarin: mai3 guan1 cai5 n2 zhi1 di1
Simplified: 买棺材唔知埞
Cantonese
(don't know where to buy a coffin); to act recklessly
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買樓
Mandarin: mai3 lou2
Simplified: 买楼
to buy a property [written and colloquial]
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買樓
Cantonese
buy a property units
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買殼
Mandarin: mai3 ke2
Simplified: 买壳
buying the shell corporation (for listing); back-door listing; reverse takeover; reverse merger; reverse IPO
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買水
Mandarin: mai3 shui3
Simplified: 买水
'buying water', a ceremony carried out by the eldest son for a dead parent
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買滿
Cantonese
spend over
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買燕梳
Mandarin: mai3 yan4 shu1
Simplified: 买燕梳
to buy insurance
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買盤
a buy order (on the stock exchange)
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買盤
Mandarin: mai3 pan2
Simplified: 买盘
buy order (on the stock exchange)
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買票
to buy tickets; vote-buying
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買豬肉搭頭骨
Cantonese
buying roasted pork and having some bone attached for free: getting something good with something unwanted as it is bundled together
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買賣
Mandarin: mai3 mai4
Simplified: 买卖
trading
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買賣人
Mandarin: mai3 mai4 ren2
merchant (used chiefly in Taiwan)
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買贏
Mandarin: mai3 ying2
Simplified: 买赢
to bet that someone or something will win [written and colloquial]
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買起
Mandarin: mai3 qi3
Simplified: 买起
to take-over or purchase something with money; to kill someone by hiring an assassin
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買路錢
Mandarin: mai3 lu4 qian2
Simplified: 买路钱
money, paid to bandits for passage
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買鐘
Mandarin: mai3 zhong1
Simplified: 买钟
to pay to take a night club hostess out of a nightclub [colloquial]
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買青苗
Mandarin: mai3 qing1 miao2
Simplified: 买青苗
to profiteer; to exploit and take advantage of those in difficult circumstances | suffering from hardship in order to gain benefits by unfair means, usually to describe profiteers who take advantage of farmers during hard times to prepay for future crops from them at an unreasonably low price, which is effectively loan sharking in disguise
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買飛
Mandarin: mai3 fei1
Cantonese
purchase a ticket [also]購票，撲飛，買票
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買餅
Mandarin: mai3 bing3
Simplified: 买饼
literally: to go and buy biscuits | cakes; to go to Yuen Long [colloquial, jargon used buy taxi drivers]
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