Cantonese Dictionary

泡湯

pou4 tong1

Mandarin: pao4 tang1

to dawdle; to go slow deliberately

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泡菜

paau3 coi3

Mandarin: pao4 cai4

kimchi (Korean pickled cabbage); pickled vegetable

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泡饃

paau3 mo4

Mandarin: pao4 mo2

meat and bread soup (a specialty of Shaanxi cuisine)

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泮

pun3

Mandarin: pan4

(literary) to melt | to dissolve | to disperse | to fall apart | a surname | Zhou dynasty school | # adapted from cc-cedict

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泮塘

pun3 tong6

Mandarin: pan4 tang2

Pun Tong, a region in Guangzhou, China

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泮水

pun3 seoi2

Mandarin: pan4 shui3

Pun Tong, a region in Guangzhou, China; Panshui, a village in Guangxi, China; an outdated term for the pond in front of a school house

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泮溪

pun3 kai1

Mandarin: pan4 xi1

Panxi, a stream in Guangzhou, China

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派

paai3

Mandarin: pai4

clique | school | group | faction | to dispatch | to send | to assign | to appoint | sect | branch | style | a quantifier for a speech | scene | atmosphere | to criticize | to accuse | to censure | # adapted from cc-cedict

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派上用場

paai3 soeng5 jung6 coeng4

Mandarin: pai4 shang3 yong4 chang2

come in handy

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派位

paai3 wai6

Mandarin: pai4 wei4

allocation (of places)

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派信

paai3 seon3

Mandarin: pai4 xin4

(verb) to deliver mails

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派兵

paai3 bing1

Mandarin: pai4 bing1

deploy troops

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派出所

paai3 ceot1 so2

local police station

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派司

paai3 si1

Mandarin: pa1 si5

pass (dialect)

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派司

paa1 si2

Mandarin: pa1 si5

[loanword] pass

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派報紙

paai3 bou3 zi2

Mandarin: pai4 bao4 zhi3

Simplified: 派报纸

to deliver newspapers [written and colloquial]; to ejaculate prematurely [colloquial]

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派士

paa1 si2

Mandarin: pai4 shi4

a pass; to pass (loanword) [colloquial]

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派士砵

paa1 si6*2 but3

Cantonese

passport (as a phonetic loanword)

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派士砵

paa1 si2 but3

Mandarin: pai4 shi4 bo1

(phonetic loanword) passport

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派字歌

paai3 zi6 go1

a record of generation names

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派對

paai3 deoi3

Mandarin: pai4 dui4

party - loanword from the English "party"

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派彩

paai3 coi2

Mandarin: pai4 cai3

dividends

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派片

paai3 pin2

Mandarin: pai4 pian4

to pay bribery money to police as protection money [colloquial]

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派籌

paai3 cau4*2

Mandarin: pai4 chou2

chips allotment, quota

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派籌

paai3 cau2

Mandarin: pai4 chou2

Simplified: 派筹

to hand out queue tickets; quota allocation, especially for assigning a pupil a place in a school

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派米

paai3 mai5

Mandarin: pai4 mi3

to give out rice for free

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派糖

paai3 tong2

Mandarin: pai4 tang2

(verb) giveaway or contribute candies (noun) the Relief Measures of Hong Kong Budget Report

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派糖

paai3 tong4*2

Cantonese

to hand out goodies (sweets), symbolic of marriage

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派系

paai3 hai6

Mandarin: pai4 xi4

sect

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派街坊

paai3 gaai1 fong1

Mandarin: pai4 jie1 fang5

to give generously

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