Cantonese Dictionary

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拍烏蠅
Mandarin: pai1 wu1 ying2
Simplified: 拍乌蝇
(adj.) to describe a place where the business is very quiet | slow, with hardly any customers; literally 'squatting flies to kill time'.
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拍照
Mandarin: pai1 zhao4
to take a picture
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拍爛手掌
Mandarin: pai1 lan4 shou3 zhang3
Simplified: 拍烂手掌
to applaud intensely
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拍片
to shoot a film
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拍硬檔
Mandarin: pai1 ying4 dang4
Simplified: 拍硬档
(slang) to give a favor; to cooperate; to help; to work closely together
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拍紙簿
(writing) pad, block
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拍腿
Mandarin: pai1 tui3
photograph featuring a woman's legs as the object of interest
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拍膊頭
Mandarin: pai1 bo2 tou2
Simplified: 拍膊头
to pat on the shoulder; to listen, support, and care when one's upset; it is also used to describe someone who does an unpaid job as a favour
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拍薑咁拍
Mandarin: pai1 jiang1 gan1 pai1
Simplified: 拍姜咁拍
Cantonese
verb; literally: beat the ginger with kitchen knife, it means beat someone badly
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拍賣
Mandarin: pai1 mai4
to auction
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拍賣師
Mandarin: pai1 mai4 shi1
auctioneer [Syn.] 拍賣人
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拍賣店
auction house
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拍賣會
an auction
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拍賣行
Mandarin: pai1mai4hang2
Simplified: 拍卖行
an auction house [written and colloquial]
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拍電影
Mandarin: pai1 dian4 ying3
to shoot a film; to make a film [粵]: 拍戲
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拍馬屁
Mandarin: pai1 ma3 pi4
[v] flatter; kiss ass, brown nose
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拚
Mandarin: pan4
to disregard | to reject | to risk | to go all out for | # adapted from cc-cedict
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拚命
Mandarin: pan4 ming4
[1] to risk one's life [2] to make a desperate effort
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拚圮
Cantonese
to give up and not care about anything
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拚死
Mandarin: pan4 si3
to risk one's life | See also '拚命'
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拚死無大害
Mandarin: pan4 si3 wu2 da4 hai4
Simplified: 拚死无大害
to do everything one can, even if it costs one's life, because one has nothing left to lose | fear; to be all in
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拚死無大害
Cantonese
fearless, ready for any sacrifice
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拚爛
Mandarin: pan4 lan4
Simplified: 拚烂
to give up on oneself and act recklessly; to write oneself off as hopeless and let oneself go
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拼
Mandarin: pin1
to fight or battle
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拼命
Mandarin: pin1 ming4
to risk one's life; be prepared to do something life-risking; death-defying [Syn.] 搏命
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拼圖
jigsaw puzzle; a picture or game with pieces that snap together somehow
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拼字
Mandarin: pin1 zi4
to spell, spelling
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拼寫
Mandarin: pin1 xie3
to spell; to spell out a word (esp. in Roman letters) | 粵: 串
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拼搏
Mandarin: pin1 bo2
struggle, wrestle
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拼沉
Mandarin: pin1 chen2
to get defeated
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