Cantonese Dictionary

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振
Mandarin: zhen4
to shake | to flap | to vibrate | to resonate | to rise up with spirit | to rouse oneself | to excite | to arouse to action | to cheerup | # adapted from cc-cedict
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振作
Mandarin: zhen4 zuo4
exert oneself; display vigour; lift up one's head; shake oneself together | [粵]: 打醒, 打醒精神
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振動
Mandarin: zhen4 dong4
to vibrate
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振動器
Mandarin: zhen4 dong4 qi4
vibrator
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振奮
Mandarin: zhen4 fen4
to stir oneslf up; to be inspired; to raise one's own spirit
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振臂一呼
Mandarin: zhen4 bi4 yi1 hu1
raise one's arm in a apeal for action; make an appeal for people to take action
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振興
Mandarin: zhen4 xing1
to promote; to develop
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振蕩
Mandarin: zhen4 dang4
vibration; oscillation
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捉
Mandarin: zhuo1
to clutch | to grab | to capture | to catch | to grasp | # adapted from cc-cedict
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捉人痛腳
Mandarin: zhuo1 ren2 tong4 jiao3
Simplified: 捉人痛脚
to seize on someone's weak points and use it against them; to exploit someone's shortcomings
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捉伊人
Mandarin: zhuo1 yi1 ren2
hide-and-seek (spoken)
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捉伊人
Cantonese
hide and seek; [國]捉迷藏
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捉住
nab; nobble; seize
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捉兒人
Cantonese
hide and seek (捉伊人 is considered the correct version of this term though both are pronounced exactly the same)
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捉兒人
Mandarin: zhuo1 r5 ren2
Simplified: 捉儿人
the game of hide-and-seek game
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捉到鹿唔識脫角
Mandarin: zhuo1 dao4 lu4 wu2 shi2 (PRC) shi4 (TW) tuo1 jiao3
Cantonese
to have a good opportunity but not know to grasp hold of it
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捉到鹿唔識脫角
Mandarin: zhuo1 dao4 lu4 m2 shi2 tuo1 jiao3
Simplified: 捉到鹿唔识脱角
Cantonese
unable to fully exploit a good opportunity
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捉匿匿
Mandarin: zhuo1 ni4 ni4
hide and seek
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捉匿匿
Mandarin: zhuo1 ni4 ni4
Cantonese
hide and go seek [syn.][粵]捉兒人；伏匿匿 [國]捉迷藏
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捉圍棋
Mandarin: zhuo1 wei2 qi2
play Go (a board game)
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捉墨魚
Mandarin: zhuo1 mo4yu2
Simplified: 捉墨鱼
literally: to fish for cuttlefish; to catch out vehicles with exhaust emissions that is over the acceptable limit [colloquial]
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捉姣
Mandarin: zhuo1 jiao1
catch someone in the act of adultery (in flagrante delicto)
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捉姦
catch an affair
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捉姦在床
Mandarin: zhuo1jian1 zai4 chuang2
Simplified: 捉奸在床
to catch someone who is having an affair in the act [written and colloquial]
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捉字虱
Mandarin: zhuo1 zi4 shi1
spelling or grammar policing (spoken)
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捉字蝨
Mandarin: zhuo1 zi4 shi1
Simplified: 捉字虱
verb; play with the words. It refers to harshly looking for the mistakes of others, of the words | language used which may be inaccurate, ambiguous or omissions of words; making it difficult for the other person.
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捉弄
Mandarin: zhuo1 nong4
to tease; to make fun of [粵]整蠱；撚化
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捉拿
Mandarin: zhuo1 na2
to seize; arrest; apprehend
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捉摸
Mandarin: zhuo1 mo1
to predict (often in the combination difficult to predict)
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捉棋
Cantonese
play chess or Go ; have a game of a chess or Go [華]: 下棋
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