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3週刊
Three Weekly
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CD舖
Cantonese
CD/record shop
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Ｓｅｔ頭
Mandarin: s e t tou2
Simplified: Ｓｅｔ头
to set one's hairstyle [colloquial]
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sit位
[n] a seat (on a vehicle)
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三
Mandarin: san1
multiple times; repeatedly | # adapted from cc-cedict
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三A電
AAA size battery
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三K黨
Ku Klux Klan
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三P
Mandarin: san1 pi1
(P for person), threesome, sex acts between three people [Syn.] 三人性交
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三R
3R sized print
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三Ｔ
Mandarin: san1 T
Simplified: 三T
Triple trio.Horse racing terms, precise predicting top three in three game in a row.(Regardless of the ranking)
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三三兩兩
Mandarin: san1 san1 liang3 liang3
in twos and threes
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三不
Mandarin: san1 bu4
"the three no's" (an example of an abbreviated slogan or catchphrase)
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三不知
Mandarin: san1 bu4 zhi1
to claim not to know the beginning, middle, and end of a matter; to claim complete ignorance (often under false pretense)
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三九兩丁七
Cantonese
describes a small population of people
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三九兩丁七
Mandarin: san1 jiu3 liang3 ding1 qi1
Simplified: 三九两丁七
very few people
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三九唔識七
Mandarin: san1 jiu3 n2 shi2 qi1
Simplified: 三九唔识七
Cantonese
describes the situation where no one knows who anyone else is, where everyone is a total stranger to everyone else
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三九四零五二
Mandarin: san1 jiu3 si4 ling2 wu3 er4
six numbers pronounced with the first tone to the sixth tone respectively in Cantonese: 3, 9, 4, 0, 5, 2
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三五知己
Mandarin: san1 wu3 zhi1 ji3
several close friends
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三亞
Mandarin: san1 ya4
Sanya (city in Hainan)
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三人性交
Mandarin: san1 ren2 xing4 jiao1
Threesome
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三人成虎
Mandarin: san1 ren2 cheng2 hu3
three men make a tiger (i.e., three people can be strong force to deal with)； If something unfounded is mentioned and repeated by many, it will be accepted as and become the truth.
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三仔
Mandarin: san1 zi3
III-rated movie | the three goals for teenagers during 70s to 90s of owning a car, buying a house, and getting married | card | (deck of playing cards)
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三份
Mandarin: san1 fen4
triplicate [written and colloquial]
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三份之一
Mandarin: san1 fen4 zhi1yi1
a third [written and colloquial]
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三伏天
Mandarin: san1 fu2 tian1
three periods forming the hottest periods of summer, from mid-July to mid-August, namely: 初伏 (mid-July), 中伏 (late July to early August), 末伏 (mid-August)
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三位一體
Mandarin: san1 wei4 yi1 ti3
trinity (in Christianity)
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三個代表
Mandarin: san1 ge4 dai4 biao3
the Three Represents of Jiang Zemin
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三個六
Mandarin: san1 ge4 liu4
Simplified: 三个六
three sixes [written and colloquial]; the symbolic fee of three dollars sixty required for joining a triad gang [colloquial]
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三個和尚冇水食
Cantonese
"to pass the buck"
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三個女人一個墟
Cantonese
3 women noisy like a market
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