Cantonese Dictionary

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生育
Mandarin: sheng1 yu4
to give birth; to bear | [粵]: 生 (saang1), 臊 (sou1)
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生育能力
Mandarin: sheng1 yu4 neng2 li4
fertility; ability to have children
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生膠
crude rubber
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生膠
Mandarin: sheng1 jiao1
Simplified: 生胶
clear PVC
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生舊叉燒好過生你
Mandarin: sheng1 jiu4 cha1 shao1 hao3 guo4 sheng1 ni3
Simplified: 生旧叉烧好过生你
(a mother scolds to her kids with this slang to express her anger at them) better give birth to a piece of BBQ pork rather than you
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生色
Mandarin: sheng1 se4
adding colours; brighten up
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生芒果
Mandarin: sheng1 mang2guo3
to contract a sexually transmitted disease [colloquial]
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生花
Mandarin: sheng1 hua1
(food) to flower
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生草藥
Mandarin: sheng1 cao3 yao4
Simplified: 生草药
herbal medicine
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生菜包
Mandarin: sheng1 cai4 bao1
lettuce wraps
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生菜魚肉
Mandarin: sheng1 cai4 yu2 rou4
Simplified: 生菜鱼肉
soup with lettuce and fish paste
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生葬
Mandarin: sheng1 zang4
to be buried alive
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生薑
Mandarin: sheng1 jiang1
fresh ginger
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生蛇
Mandarin: sheng1 she2
varicella-zoster virus
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生蛋
Mandarin: sheng1 dan4
to lay eggs | Also: 產卵
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生蛋
Mandarin: sheng1 dan4
(verb) to lay an egg; to deposit an egg; or (food) raw egg
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生蝦
Mandarin: sheng1 xia1
Simplified: 生虾
(noun) live shrimp; raw shrimp
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生蝦咁跳
Mandarin: sheng1 xia1 gan1 tiao4
Simplified: 生虾咁跳
Cantonese
(slang) someone is pissed off and furious
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生蝦噉跳
Mandarin: sheng1 xia1 dan4 tiao4
Simplified: 生虾啖跳
Cantonese
fuming; jumping up and down with rage; angry stomp
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生螆
Mandarin: sheng1 ci4
(verb) get louse; or (figurative meaning) get skin disease
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生螆貓
Mandarin: sheng1 ci4 mao1
Simplified: 生螆猫
cat with fleas (the expression 生螆貓入眼 is to describe love at first sight)
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生螆貓入眼
Mandarin: sheng1 ci4 mao1 ru4 yan3
Simplified: 生螆猫入眼
liking anyone at first sight (slang)
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生蟲
Mandarin: sheng1 chong2
Simplified: 生虫
(verb) have parasites; (disease) people have worms
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生蟲拐杖
Cantonese
unreliable
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生蟲拐杖
Mandarin: sheng1 chong2 guai3 zhang4
Simplified: 生虫拐杖
to describe someone or something that is unreliable
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生蟲枴杖
Mandarin: sheng1 chong2 guai3 zhang4
Simplified: 生虫拐杖
(noun) a walking stick that grows parasites, stick-bugs
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生蠔
Mandarin: sheng1 hao2
Simplified: 生蚝
oyster
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生計
Mandarin: sheng1 ji4
(means of) livelihood; living
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生詞
Mandarin: sheng1 ci2
neologism; newly-coined word
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生豬
Mandarin: sheng1 zhu1
Simplified: 生猪
a live pig
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