Cantonese Dictionary

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匍匐莖
Mandarin: pu2 ​fu2​ jing1
runner; stolon (crawling stems on plants such as strawberries)
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匏
Mandarin: pao2
bottle gourd | Lagenaria vulgaris | a type of ancient instrument | # adapted from cc-cedict
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匏瓜
Mandarin: pao2 gua1
calabash | one with great abilities
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匹
Mandarin: pi3
classifier for horses, mules etc | Taiwan pr. [pī] | ordinary person | classifier for cloth: bolt | horsepower | be a match for | equal | to match | lone | single | # adapted from cc-cedict
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匹偶
a married couple
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匹夫
a husband; an ordinary man
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匹婦
a married woman; an ordinary woman
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匹字節
Mandarin: pi3 zi4 jie2
a petabyte (PB)
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匹敵
Mandarin: pi3 di2
be well matched; be equal too
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匹配
to marry, to match
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叵
Mandarin: po3
not | thereupon | cannot | improbable | impossibly | unpredictably | at once | right away | # adapted from cc-cedict
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叵測
Mandarin: po3 ce4
unfathomable, unpredictable
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叵測
Mandarin: po3 ce4
Simplified: 叵测
one with unpredictable evil intention
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叵耐
Mandarin: po3 nai4
unendurable
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否
Mandarin: fou3
bad | wicked | evil | to criticize | to censure | # adapted from cc-cedict
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否極泰來
Mandarin: pi3 ji2 tai4 lai2
bliss comes out of the depth of misfortune; once adversity has run its course prosperity begins
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呯
Mandarin: ping2
(onom.) bang! (gong, gun firing etc) | # adapted from cc-cedict
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咆
Mandarin: pao2
to roar | to howl | to bellow | # adapted from cc-cedict
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咆哮
Mandarin: pao2 xiao1
growl; roar
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啤
Mandarin: pi2
a pair | pokers | lovers | # adapted from cc-cedict
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啤啤夫
swaying
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啤牌
Cantonese
poker; playing cards [loanword] |[華]: 撲克 ; 撲克牌
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啪
Mandarin: pa1
(onom.) bang | pop | pow | to pop (pills) | to tap | to take (drugs) | # adapted from cc-cedict
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啪丸
Mandarin: pa1 wan2
to take pills (illicit drugs)
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啪丸
Cantonese
pop pills
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啪針
Mandarin: pa1 zhen1
Simplified: 啪针
to take drugs through needle injection [colloquial]
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啪鈕
Cantonese
press stud; snap button/fastener
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嘌
Mandarin: piao4
purine | see 嘌呤piàolìng [嘌呤] | fast | speedy | # adapted from cc-cedict
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嘌呤
Mandarin: piao4 ling4
[Chim.][loanword] purine [Syn.] 普林
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嘭
Mandarin: peng1
[onomatopoeia] bang - the sound of things bumping against each other or of knocking at a door
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