Cantonese Dictionary

總教練

zung2 gaau3 lin6

Mandarin: zong3 jiao4 lian4

Simplified: 总教练

Head Coach

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胸襟狹窄

hung1 kam1 haap6 zaak3

Mandarin: xiong1 jin1 xia2 zhai3

narrow-minded, rigid or restricted in one’s views

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後果

hau6 gwo2

Mandarin: hou4 guo3

Simplified: 后果

outcome; results

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單人房

daan1 jan4 fong4*2

Mandarin: dan1 ren2 fang2

single room; single bed room

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鴆毒

zam6 duk6

Mandarin: zhen4 du2

Simplified: 鸩毒

poisoned wine

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不明晰的

bat1 ming4 sik1 dik1

Mandarin: bu4 ming2 xi1 de5

unintelligible

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教育光碟

gaau3 juk6 gwong1 dip6*2

an educational CD-ROM

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毡

zin1

Mandarin: zhan1

simplified form of 氈

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芝士餅

zi1 si6*2 beng2

[n] cheesecake

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寧南

ning4 naam4

Mandarin: ning2 nan2

Ningnan (place in Sichuan)

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刀叉筷子

dou1 caa1 faai3 zi2

tableware

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啞口無言

aa2 hau2 mou4 jin4

Mandarin: ya3 kou3 wu2 yan2

to be speechless

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塘水滾塘魚

tong4 seoi2 gwan2 tong4 jyu2

Mandarin: tang2 shui3 gun3 tang2 yu2

Simplified: 塘水滚塘鱼

it is a cantonese proverb, ponds only have water and fish, would not have anything else, which means the situation is always the same, i.e. family playing a mahjong game. the money balance is always the same in the end.

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發狼戾

faat3 long1 lai2

Mandarin: fa1 lang2 li4

Simplified: 发狼戾

(verb) get outrageous; get angry

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送終

sung3 zung1

attend upon a dying relative.

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上交

soeng5 gaau1

Mandarin: shang4 jiao1

to hand in to; to hand over; to give in to higher authority

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輻射

fuk1 se6

Mandarin: fu2 she4

radiation, irradiation

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企身

kei5 san1

Mandarin: qi3 shen1

vertical, standing up

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大溪鎮

daai6 kai1 zan3

Mandarin: da4 xi1 zhen4

Tahsi (town in Taiwan)

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ngòh

Mandarin: all

e2

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竅

kiu3

Mandarin: qiao4

Simplified: 窍

hole | opening | orifice (of the human body) | (fig.) key | trick (to the solution of a problem) | aperture | cave | # adapted from cc-cedict

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日本女優

jat6 bun2 neoi5 jau1

Mandarin: ri4 ben3 nv3 you1

Japanese actress

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約克

joek3 haak1

[translit.] York

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豬年

zyu1 nin4

Mandarin: zhu1 nian2

the Year of the pig (one of the 12 year cycle of animals 十二生肖 in the Chinese calendar and zodiac)

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萎

wai3

Mandarin: wei3

to wither | to fade | to shrink | to wilt | # adapted from cc-cedict

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同類項

tung4 leoi6 hong6

Mandarin: tong2 lei4 xiang4

[math/science] like terms

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巴仙

baa1 sin1; poe6 sen1

(transliteration of the English word) percent | Pure Chin.: 百分之...

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拎走

ling1 zau2

Mandarin: lin1 zou3

noun; takeaway

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獨木不成林

duk6 muk6 bat1 sing4 lam4

Mandarin: du2 mu4 bu4 cheng2 lin2

one person cannot handle all the tasks by himself. (lit. one tree does not make a forest)

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唐璜

tong4 wong4

Mandarin: tang2 huang2

a dandy; a fop; Don Juan; a ladies man

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