Cantonese Dictionary

撻沙魚

taat3 saa1 jyu4*2

Macao sole

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撻皮

taat3 pei4

Cantonese

to bludge, to slack off

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撻着

taat1 zoek6

Mandarin: ta4 zhe5

Simplified: 挞着

to start a car; to hit it off with someone

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撻訂

taat3 deng6

defaulted on purchase of something (also 撻定)

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撻車

taat1 ce1

Mandarin: ta4 che1

Simplified: 挞车

to start a car ; to turn on the ignition of a car [colloquial]  

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撻返著

taat3*1 faan1 zoek6

Cantonese

to restart; to bring back up

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撻頭

taat3 tau4

Mandarin: ta4 tou2

Simplified: 挞头

adj; bald

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攤

taan1

Mandarin: tan1

Simplified: 摊

to spread out | vendor's stand | to share out | puddle, a classifier | a stall | # adapted from cc-cedict

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攤位

taan1 wai6*2

Mandarin: tan1 wei4

a stall (at a market or fair); assign seats

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攤凍

taan1 dung3

Mandarin: tan1 dong4

Simplified: 摊冻

let something hot cool down (spoken)

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攤子

taan1 zi2

Mandarin: tan1 zi5

a booth | [粵]: 檔口, 攤檔

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攤屍

taan1 si1

Mandarin: tan1 shi1

Simplified: 摊尸

noun; corpse pose, flat on the back, Savasana(yoga)

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攤手

taan1 sau2

Mandarin: tan1 shou3

dispersing hand (one of the Wing Chun/Ving Tsun kung fu 詠春拳's principal hand movement)

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攤攤腰

taan1 taan1 jiu1

Mandarin: tan1 tan1 yao1

Simplified: 摊摊腰

falling flat to the floor; painful

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攤檔

taan1 dong3

Cantonese

a stall; a kiosk

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攤牌

taan1 paai2

Mandarin: tan1pai2

Simplified: 摊牌

(verb) To show; (of mahjong game) to reveal tiles (of a winning hand); (noun) 1. Showdown

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攤直

taan1 zik6

Mandarin: tan1 zhi2

Simplified: 摊直

dead (literally 'to lie down flat')

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攤開

taan1 hoi1

lay open

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敦

tyun4

Mandarin: dun1

clustering | # adapted from cc-cedict

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敨

tau2

Mandarin: tou3

to unfold or open up something; to rest; to catch one's breath

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斷子絕孫

tyun5 zi2 zyut6 syun1

Mandarin: duan4 zi3 jue2 sun1

a curse, that you may die without sons

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斷尾

tyun5 mei5

Mandarin: duan4 wei3

Simplified: 断尾

(verb) completely ended; (of disease) completely cured and never relapsed

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斷市

tyun5 si5

Mandarin: duan4 shi4

Simplified: 断市

out of stock

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斷斷續續

tyun5 tyun5 zuk6 zuk6

Mandarin: duan4 duan4 xu4 xu4

intermittent; off-and-on; intermittently

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斷斷續續的戰爭

tyun5 tyun5 zuk6 zuk6 dik1 zin3 zang1

sporadic fighting

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斷根

tyun5 gan1

Mandarin: duan4 gen1

to be completely cured; to effect a permanent cure | [粵]: 斷尾

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斷椎

tyun5 zeoi1

Mandarin: duan4 zhui1

execution by breaking of the vertebra

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斷正

tyun5 zeng3

Mandarin: duan4 zheng4

Simplified: 断正

verb; expose something, a goof, mistake, caught dead

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斷水

tyun5 seoi2

Mandarin: duan4 shui3

Cantonese

cut off one's source of wealth or income

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斷片

tyun5 pin2

Mandarin: duan4 pian4

Simplified: 断片

a total blackout with no recollection of the events that had happened after getting drunk

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