Cantonese Dictionary

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目的
Mandarin: mu4 di4
target; objective; goal
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目的地
Mandarin: mu4 di4 di4
destination (location)
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目睹
Mandarin: mu4 du3
to have seen something
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目瞪口呆
Mandarin: mu4 deng4 kou3 dai1
stare bewilderedly
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目空一切
Mandarin: mu4 kong1 yi1 qie4
consider everybody and everything beneath one's notice; be supercilious
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目見
Mandarin: mu4 jian4
Simplified: 目见
to witness; to see for oneself
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目送
Mandarin: mu4 song4
to see somebody off; to follow someone with one's eyes as he leaves
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目連
Mandarin: mu4 lian2
(Buddhist 佛) Mahamaudgalyayana or Kolita.One of Shakyamuni Buddha's ten major disciples, known as foremost in transcendental powers.
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目錄
Mandarin: mu4 lu4
(table of) contents; directory
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目錄表
Mandarin: mu4lu4 biao3
Simplified: 目录表
a catalogue [written and colloquial]
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目鏡
Mandarin: mu4 jing4
eyepiece
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盲
Mandarin: mang2
blind | unperceptive | shortsighted | illiterate | # adapted from cc-cedict
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盲中中
Mandarin: mang2 zhong1 zhong1
to do things blindly; to not look where one is going [colloquial]
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盲人瞎馬
Mandarin: mang2 ren2 xia1 ma3
Simplified: 盲人瞎马
rush headlong into disaster
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盲人識字系統
Mandarin: mang2 ren2 shi2 zi4 xi4 tong3
braille (lit., "blind man's literacy system")
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盲公
Mandarin: mang2 gong1
a blind man (normally refers to an elderly blind man)
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盲公竹
Mandarin: mang2 gong1 zhu2
(noun) a blind person's cane; a guide cane; (of metaphor) a guide who gives directions; a guardian or a mentor who gives directions or advice on life
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盲公繩
Mandarin: mang2 gong1 sheng2
Cantonese
treasury tag; indian tag
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盲公繩
Mandarin: mang2 gong1 sheng2
Simplified: 盲公绳
treasury tag
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盲公話
Mandarin: mang2 gong1 hua4
"blind man's speech" transforms one spoken syllable into two. It is a "Cantonese Pig-Latin" which can be used by children, was used to speak secretly during the Cultural Revolution, etc.
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盲公鏡
Cantonese
dark sunglasses (so called because of the dark glasses blind people wear)
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盲公鏡
Mandarin: mang2 gong1 jing4
Simplified: 盲公镜
Dark glasses (referred to as 'Blind glasses' as typically used by the blind)
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盲公餅
Mandarin: mang2 gong1 bing3
Simplified: 盲公饼
"blind-men" cookies, local delicacy of Foshan in Guangdong of China
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盲動
Mandarin: mang2 dong4
Simplified: 盲动
Recklessness
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盲咗
Cantonese
blinded | got blinded
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盲妹
Mandarin: mang2 mei4
blind girl
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盲婆
Mandarin: mang2 po2
blind woman
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盲婚
Mandarin: mang2 hun1
Arranged marriage
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盲婚啞嫁
Mandarin: mang2 hun1 ya3 jia4
Simplified: 盲婚哑嫁
(old custom) an arranged marriage
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盲字都唔識多隻
Mandarin: mang2zi4 dou1 n2 shi2 duo1 zi4
Simplified: 盲字都唔识多只
Cantonese
illiterate [colloquial]
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