Cantonese Dictionary

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上門推銷員
door-to-door salesman
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上限
top limit; ceiling
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上陣
Mandarin: shang4 zhen4
go into battle; pitch into the work
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上陣不離父子兵
Mandarin: shang4 zhen4 bu4 li2 fu4 zi3 bing1
Simplified: 上阵不离父子兵
one having good relationship with father, where it is like both always heading to battles together
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上陰入
Mandarin: shang4 yin1 ru4
high (上) dark (陰) entering (入) tone, referring to tone 7 (or 1 with a final stop consonant) in Cantonese.
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上電
Mandarin: shang4 dian4
Simplified: 上电
the act of taking drugs (slang)
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上面落嚟
Mandarin: shang4mian5 luo4 li2
Cantonese
a Chinese in Hong Kong who is from Mainland China [colloquial]
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上頭
Mandarin: shang4 tou5
Simplified: 上头
superior or supervisor in line; boss (Cantonese)
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上顎
Mandarin: shang4 e4
Simplified: 上颚
upper jaw
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上饒
Mandarin: shang4 rao2
Shangrao (city in Jiangxi)
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上饒地區
Mandarin: shang4 rao2 di4 qu1
Shangrao district (district in Jiangxi)
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上香
Mandarin: shang4 xiang1
Burn incense and pray
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上馬
Mandarin: shang4ma3
Simplified: 上马
(verb) Get going (e.g. a project etc.)
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上高
Mandarin: Shang4 gao1
above; up there (Cantonese)
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上齒
Mandarin: shang4 chi3
upper teeth
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世
Mandarin: shi4
life | age | generation | era | world | lifetime | epoch | descendant | noble | a surname | a period of 30 years | a form of address used between family friends of that is of a different generation | # adapted from cc-cedict
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世上
Mandarin: shi4 shang4
on earth, in this world, concerning this world [Syn.] 世界上
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世世
Mandarin: shi4 shi4
from age to age
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世事
Mandarin: shi4 shi4
human affairs; affairs of human life
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世事無常
Mandarin: shi4 shi4 wu2 chang2
the affairs of this world are unpredictable
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世事難料
Mandarin: shi4 shi4 nan2 liao4
affairs of the world are difficult to predict
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世人
Mandarin: shi4 ren2
(common) people
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世仇
Mandarin: shi4 chou2
feud
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世代
Mandarin: shi4 dai4
generation; (for) generations
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世代交替
Mandarin: shi4 dai4 jiao1 ti4
alternation of generations
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世代流傳
Mandarin: shi4 dai4 liu2 chuan2
passed on for generations
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世侄
Mandarin: shi4 zhi2
sons of friends
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世俗
Mandarin: shi4 su2
profane; secular; worldly
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世傳
Mandarin: shi4 chuan2
be handed down through generations
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世叔
Mandarin: shi4 shu1
Uncle (family friend)
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