Cantonese Dictionary

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斬手指
Mandarin: zhan3 shou3zhi3
Simplified: 斩手指
to give up gambling; literally: to chop off one's fingers [colloquial]
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斬料
Cantonese
buy cooked meat for dinner
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斬料
Mandarin: zhan3 liao4
Simplified: 斩料
slang for buying ready to eat cooked meat from outside and bring it back home as an extra dish for dinner
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斬犯
Mandarin: zhan3 fan4
Simplified: 斩犯
a criminal that is to be beheaded
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斬獲
Mandarin: zhan3 huo4
Simplified: 斩获
noun; harvest; crop; it means results and gain
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斬瓜
Mandarin: zhan3 gua1
Simplified: 斩瓜
to chop to death [colloquial]
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斬竹灣
Mandarin: zhan3 zhu2 wan1
Simplified: 斩竹湾
Tsam Chuk Wan (a bay in Hong Kong)
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斬纜
Mandarin: zhan3 lan3
Simplified: 斩缆
to make a clean break from a relationship; to sever ties; to cut off the ropes of a steamboat from a ferry; to take drastic measures to halt investment activities in order to minimise the loss of money
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斬腳趾避沙蟲
Mandarin: zhan3 jiao3 zhi3 bi4 sha1 chong2
Simplified: 斩脚趾避沙虫
a metaphor for going through excessive and drastic measures unnecessarily in order to avoid a small problem; literally 'cut off one's toes to avoid sandworms'; palliative; something that treats the symptom but not the underlying problem
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斬草除根
Mandarin: zhan3 cao3 chu2 gen1
(saying) to pull up by the roots - to completely eradicate 斬草不除根春風吹又生
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斬釘截鐵
Mandarin: zhan3 ding1 jie2 tie3
(saying) definitely; without a doubt
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斬開九碌
Mandarin: zhan3 kai1 jiu3 lu4
Simplified: 斩开九碌
to chop someone up to pieces [colloquial]
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斬雞頭燒黄紙
Mandarin: zhan3 ji1tou2 shao1 huang2 zhi3
Simplified: 斩鸡头烧黄纸
to swear an oath and become sworn brothers (colloquial)
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斬頭
Mandarin: zhan3 tou2
Simplified: 斩头
beheading
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斬頭
Mandarin: zhan3 tou2
Cantonese
behead; decapitate
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斬頭截尾
Mandarin: zhan3 tou2 jie2 wei3
Simplified: 斩头截尾
verb; chop off the head and tail or end; unwanted part
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斬首
Mandarin: zhan3 shou3
behead; decapitate
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斬馬刀
Mandarin: zhan3 ma3dao1
Simplified: 斩马刀
a type of traditional Chinese sword; a long chopping knife [written and colloquial]
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旌
Mandarin: jing1
banner made with feathers | make manifest | the whereabouts of someone | to honour officially | # adapted from cc-cedict
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旌德
Mandarin: jing1 de2
Jingde (place in Anhui)
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旌旗
Mandarin: jing1 qi2
flag; banner
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旌表
Mandarin: jing1 biao3
a commendation; to confer honours
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族
Mandarin: zu2
race | nationality | ethnicity | clan | by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族) | blood relations | tribe | class of animals | group of things with common characteristics | to execute all family members of a criminal | # adapted from cc-cedict
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族人
tribe people
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族權
Mandarin: zu2 quan2
Simplified: 族权
clan authority
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族群
Mandarin: zu2 qun2
ethnic group
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族譜
Mandarin: zu2 pu3
geneology; clan register, family tree
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族長
Mandarin: zu2 zhang3
Simplified: 族长
the head of a clan; a patriarch
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族類
Mandarin: zu2 lei4
[n] clan; race
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旨
Mandarin: zhi3
imperial decree | purport | aim | purpose | excellent | beautiful | delicious | # adapted from cc-cedict
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