Cantonese Dictionary

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死水
stagnant water
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死活
Mandarin: si3 huo2
life or death; fate; anyway; simply
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死海
the Dead Sea
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死淨把口
Mandarin: si3 jing4 ba3 kou3
Simplified: 死净把口
to never stop talking; to talk too much [colloquial]
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死火
Mandarin: si3 huo3
(adjective) (of car) broke down; (verb) to break down or to stall (usually referring to a car | engine | machinery); (of a situation) a held up; to come to a standstill; (interjection) "Oh no!" "Uh-oh!"
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死火山
Mandarin: si3 huo3 shan1
extinct volcano
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死灰
Mandarin: si3 hui1
ashes; dying embers
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死牛一便頸
Mandarin: si3 niu2 yi1 bian4 jing3
Simplified: 死牛一便颈
describes a very stubborn person
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死牛一邊頸
Mandarin: si3 niu2 yi1 bian1 jing3
Simplified: 死牛一边颈
extremely stubborn (slang)
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死物
Mandarin: si3 wu4
inanimate objects
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死狗
Mandarin: si3 gou3
(noun) damn dog; or (noun) dead dog
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死畀你睇
Mandarin: si3 bi4 ni3 di4
Cantonese
to be all washed up; to be totally doomed
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死皮
Mandarin: si3 pi2
dead skin
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死直
Mandarin: si3 zhi2
(verb) die for dignity or reputation
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死相
facies hippocratica; Hippocratic face
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死硬
Mandarin: si3 ying4
doom for death or failure (Cantonese)
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死硬派
Mandarin: si3 ying4 pai4
(noun) nonconformist; diehard; someone is intransigent
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死碼
Mandarin: si3 ma3
Simplified: 死码
dead chips, gambling chips that cannot be exchanged for money which must be used within the casino [written and colloquial]
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死神
death
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死穴
Mandarin: si3 xue2
Achilles' heel; [lit] fatal acupoint
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死籌
the "death chip" in drawing lots
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死約
Mandarin: si3 yue1
non-renewable contract of lease
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死絕種
Mandarin: si3 jue2 zhong3
Simplified: 死绝种
cursing one to extinct (derogatory)
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死纏爛打
obsess
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死罪
Mandarin: si3 zui4
a crime punished by death
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死老嘢
Mandarin: si3 lao3 ye3
Cantonese
old bastard [colloquial]
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死老鬼
Mandarin: si3 lao3 gui3
(verb) scold someone as an old man | senior (noun) damn old man; old bastard
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死者
Mandarin: si3zhe3
(noun) The victim of murder
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死而後已
Mandarin: si3 er2 hou4 yi3
until one's dying day
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死肉
gangrene (lit., "dead meat")
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