Cantonese Dictionary

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食水深
Mandarin: shi2 shui3 shen1
making excessive profits (slang)
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食沙
Cantonese
to eat
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食油
cooking oil; [粵] a car engine burning oil (lit., "eats oil")
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食波餅
Mandarin: shi2 bo1 bing3
Simplified: 食波饼
being hit by a ball (football, basketball, any balls etc.)
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食洋腸
Mandarin: shi2 yang2 chang2
Simplified: 食洋肠
describes a non-western girl who goes out with a western guy [colloquial]
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食滯
Mandarin: shi2 zhi4
Simplified: 食滞
eaten too much; indigestion (spoken)
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食滯咗
Mandarin: shi2 zhi4 zuo5
Simplified: 食滞咗
Cantonese
eat too much; to be too full
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食火藥
Cantonese
very angry, often used to describe someone with a short fuse, even when they're not angry at the moment
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食烟
Mandarin: shi2 yan1
to smoke (cigarette | tobacco)
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食無情雞
Mandarin: shi2 wu2 qing2 ji1
Simplified: 食无情鸡
to be fired; to receive a pink slip (a letter of dismissal)
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食煙
Mandarin: shi2 yan1
Simplified: 食烟
(phrasal verb) to have a smoke; to smoke (a cigarette | tobacco)
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食牛肉乾
Mandarin: shi2 niu2rou4gan1
Simplified: 食牛肉干
to be issued with a fine for parking [colloquial]
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食物
Mandarin: shi2 wu4
food; foodstuff
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食物中毒
food poisoning
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食物檢驗法
Mandarin: shi2 wu4 jian3 yan4 fa3
food test
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食物添加劑
Mandarin: shi2 wu4 tian1 jia1 ji4
food additive
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食物網
Mandarin: shi2 wu4 wang3
food web
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食物金字塔
Mandarin: shi2 wu4 jin1 zi4 ta3
a food pyramid
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食物銀行
Mandarin: shi2 wu4 yin2 hang2
food bank (place for the needy to get foodstuff handouts)
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食物鏈
Mandarin: shi2 wu4 lian4
food chain
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食環署
Mandarin: shi2 huan2 shu3
Simplified: 食环署
 The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD)
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食生菜
Mandarin: shi2 sheng1 cai4
easy tasks (slang)
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食用
Mandarin: shi2 yong4
edible; for the table; to be eaten
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食用纖維
Mandarin: shi2 yong4 xian1 wei2
dietary fiber (fibre)
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食用色素
Mandarin: shi2 yong4 se4 su4
food colour
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食病
to overeat and become ill
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食白果
Mandarin: shi2 bai2 guo3
all for nought; unprofitable (often used in gambling)
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食皇家飯
Mandarin: shi2 huang2 jia1 fan4
Simplified: 食皇家饭
to be jailed (slang)
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食砒霜杜蟲
Mandarin: shi2 pi1 shuang1 du4 chong2
Cantonese
Use unnecessarily drastic counter measures (ones that hurt oneself) to deal with a minor issue[Syn]斬腳趾避沙蟲
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食硬
Mandarin: shi2 ying4
to be confident in defeating someone; a sure win [colloquial]
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