Cantonese Dictionary

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蛇仔
Mandarin: she2 zai3
literal meaning or translation: small snake(s); the driver's assistant whose job is to help with maintaining the vehicles and to solicit customers; a middleman who helps loansharks to solicit customers
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蛇匪
Mandarin: she2 fei3
Criminals that are illegal immigrants
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蛇去邊
Mandarin: she2 qu4 bian1
Simplified: 蛇去边
where are you going to hang out [colloquial]
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蛇口
Mandarin: She2 kou3
Shekou, place in China
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蛇口心腸
Mandarin: she2 kou3 xin1 chang2
vicious intentions
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蛇喱眼
Mandarin: she2 li2 yan3
looking down on one; peeking (slang)
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蛇宴
Mandarin: she2 yan4
banquet that serves snakes as the main dishes
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蛇年
Mandarin: she2 nian2
the Year of the snake (one of the 12 year cycle of animals 十二生肖 in the Chinese calendar and zodiac)
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蛇果
Mandarin: she2 guo3
red delicious (type of apple)
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蛇殼
Mandarin: she2 ke2
Simplified: 蛇壳
Snake Slough
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蛇王
Mandarin: she2 wang2
(noun) an expert who is familiar with snakes; (of people) lazybones; loafer; (slang) (verb) to slack off (from doing something); to loaf on the job; to goof off; to play hooky; (adjective) lazy
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蛇皮袋
Mandarin: she2 pi2 dai4
polypropylene woven bag, typically referring to the red-white-blue nylon canvas bag that is commonly used in Asia
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蛇竇
Mandarin: she2 dou4
Cantonese
1. a snake hole 2. a place where lazy people hide out
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蛇竇
Mandarin: she2 dou4
Simplified: 蛇窦
a hidden place to relax and chill (spoken)
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蛇精
Mandarin: she2 jing1
snake spirit
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蛇紋石
[geo.] Serpentine (lit., "snake striped rock")
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蛇羹
Mandarin: she2 geng1
snake soup
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蛇脫
Mandarin: she2 tui4
Serpentis Periostracum; the slough of a snake
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蛇腹形鐵絲網
concertina wire
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蛇船
[n] ship used for importing illegals from China
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蛇蛇豬
[n] Social Service Group (SSG) as loanword
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蛇蛻
Mandarin: she2 tui4
Simplified: 蛇蜕
Serpentis Periostracum; the slough of a snake
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蛇蟲鼠蟻
Mandarin: she2 chong2 shu3 yi3
Cantonese
little critters; insects and critters
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蛇行
Mandarin: she2 xing2
to take a zigzag course; to creep along; to move with body on the ground; to crawl
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蛇見硫磺
Mandarin: she2 jian4 liu2 huang2
Simplified: 蛇见硫磺
clashing with each other
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蛇足
superfluous, like legs on a snake
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蛇都死
Mandarin: she2 dou1 si3
too late (spoken)
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蛇頭鼠眼
Mandarin: she2 tou2 shu3 yan3
Simplified: 蛇头鼠眼
(slang) (adjective) (of facial features) wily and devious looking; untrustworthy appearance; shifty looking
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蛇鼠一窩
Mandarin: she2 shu3 yi4 wo1
Simplified: 蛇鼠一窝
an idiom used to describe a group of people in the same syndicate and have the same intention (normally illicit or unpleasant intention) to carry out something harmful to others. Literally "snake and rat in the same nest"; act in collusion with each other
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蜀葵
Mandarin: shu3 kui2
hollyhock (which includes about 60 species of flowering plants in the genus Alcea in the mallow family Malvaceae); common hollyhock (Alcea rosea)
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