Cantonese Dictionary

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埋班
Cantonese
form a team
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埋站
Mandarin: mai2 zhan4
bus approaching the next bus stop
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埋籠
Mandarin: mai2 long2
Simplified: 埋笼
livestock entering the cage
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埋葬
Mandarin: mai2 zang4
to bury | [粵]: 葬 (zong3), 𡃵/壅 (ung1)
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埋藏
Mandarin: mai2 cang2
bury; embed
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埋街
Mandarin: mai2 jie1
to describe residents who once live on water move ashore | to describe residents who live on water marry someone who lives on land
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埋街食井水
Mandarin: mai2 jie1 shi2 jing3 shui3
lit. for fishermen to move on land and drink well water, meaning one who can survive stress-free and well-off without working; go into early retirement
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埋街飲井水
Mandarin: mai2 jie1 yin3 jing3 shui3
Simplified: 埋街饮井水
(prostitutes) to get married; or women living on boats to get married to someone and live on dry land; to get married to someone of a higher social class and live comfortably [colloquial]
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埋身
Mandarin: mai2 shen1
to get close to (physically) | to get itimate | to develop a close relationship with a hidden agenda
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埋閘
Mandarin: mai2 zha2
Simplified: 埋闸
closing the gate
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埋頭埋腦
Mandarin: mai2 tou2 mai2 nao3
Simplified: 埋头埋脑
immerse oneself in
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墁
Mandarin: man4
to plaster | to pave | # adapted from cc-cedict
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墓
Mandarin: mu4
grave; tomb; coffin pit
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墓園
Mandarin: mu4 yuan2
memorial park
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墓碑
Mandarin: mu4 bei1
a tombstone; a gravestone
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墓穴
Mandarin: mu4 xue2
tomb; grave
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墨
Mandarin: mo4
ink stick | China ink M: 块kuài [块] | corporal punishment consisting of tattooing characters on the victim's forehead | writing | black | pitch dark | to embezzle | calligraphy or painting | Mohism | # adapted from cc-cedict
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墨七
Mandarin: mo4 qi1
a burglar; a robber
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墨國
Mandarin: mo4 guo2
Mexico [Syn.] 墨西哥
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墨守成規
stubborn; to stick to established practises
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墨攻
A Battle of Wits (movie)
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墨水
Mandarin: mo4 shui3
knowledge
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墨水兒
Mandarin: mo4 shuir3
ink
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墨水筆
Mandarin: mo4 shui3 bi3
Simplified: 墨水笔
(noun) an ink pen
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墨汁
Mandarin: mo4 zhi1
Chinese ink, made from an inkstick and as black as the juice from a freshly squeezed squid
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墨江哈尼族自治縣
Mandarin: mo4 jiang1 ha1 ni2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 xian4
Mojiang Ha'nizu autonomous county (county in Yunnan)
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墨爾本
Mandarin: mo4 er3 ben3
the city of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia | Also known as '新金山'
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墨爾砵
Mandarin: mo4 er3 bo1
Simplified: 墨尔砵
Melbourne, Australia
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墨爾缽
Mandarin: mo4 er3 bo1
Melbourne (an Australian city)
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墨玉
Mandarin: mo4 yu4
Moyu (place in Xinjiang)
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