Cantonese Dictionary

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棘手
Mandarin: ji2 shou3
difficult
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趕落台
Mandarin: gan3 luo4 tai2
Cantonese
force someone to step down (in politics, business etc.)
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紋
Mandarin: wen2
Simplified: 纹
line | trace | mark | pattern | grain (of wood etc) | streak | stripe | wrinkle | vein | # adapted from cc-cedict
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行黑路
Cantonese
to earn a dishonest living (lit., "walk the black road")
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冤屈
Mandarin: yuan1 qu1
injustice
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窗友
Mandarin: chuang1 you3
Room mate
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富布賴特
Mandarin: fu4 bu4 lai4 te4
Fulbright (scholarship)
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拿騷
Mandarin: na2 sao1
Nassau (capital of The Bahamas)
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臭狐
Mandarin: chou4 hu2
hircismus; stinky armpits; Bromhidrosis; excessive body odor
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吳川
Mandarin: wu2 chuan1
Wuchuan (city in Guangdong)
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寶物沉歸底
Mandarin: bao3 wu4 chen2 gui1 di3
Simplified: 宝物沉归底
good things come at the end
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月經
Mandarin: yue4 jing1
menstruation - the menses
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闡
Mandarin: chan3
Simplified: 阐
to express | to disclose | to enlighten | to open | to explain | to clarify | to elucidate | # adapted from cc-cedict
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樽領
Mandarin: zun1 ling3
Simplified: 樽领
turtle-necked
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瞻前顧後
Mandarin: zhan1 qian2 gu4 hou4
to look forward and back; to consider prudently; overcautious
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公立
Mandarin: gong1 li4
public (institution)
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眼大肚子小
Mandarin: yan3 da4 du4 zi5 xiao3
(idiom) to bite off more than you can chew, to be greedy (for food), to be a glutton; (lit. large eyes, small stomach) | Syn.: 眼闊肚窄, 口大喉嚨小, 眼饞肚飽
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一氧化碳中毒
Mandarin: yi1 yang3 hua4 tan4 zhong4 du2
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
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賭
Mandarin: du3
Simplified: 赌
to bet | to gamble | # adapted from cc-cedict
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囑託
Mandarin: zhu3 tuo1
to entrust a task to so. else
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結拜細佬
Mandarin: jie2bai4 xi4 lao3
Simplified: 结拜细佬
one's younger 'sworn' brother (who have sworn an oath of loyalty together) [colloquial]
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水土不服
Mandarin: shui3 tu3 bu4 fu2
(of a stranger) not accustomed to the climate of a new place; not acclimatized
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gūk
Mandarin: all
ju1
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本週
Mandarin: ben3 zhou1
this week
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波子
Mandarin: bo1 zi3
(noun) marbles; or (noun) Porsche
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七行詩
Mandarin: qi1 hang2 shi1
Simplified: 七行诗
Heptastich
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聖堂
Mandarin: sheng4 tang2
Simplified: 圣堂
church; Confucian temple
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唔埋得個鼻
Mandarin: n2 mai2 de2 ge4 bi2
Simplified: 唔埋得个鼻
Cantonese
lit. cannot get close to one's nose, meaning not worth any attention
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lēi lèih
Mandarin: all
li5 li2
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移調器
Mandarin: yi2 diao4 qi4
guitar capo, capo tasto [Syn.] 移調夾
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