Cantonese Dictionary

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大菜
Mandarin: da4 cai4
agar
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八旗
Mandarin: ba1 qi2
the "Eight Banners" (military organization in Qing Dynasty)
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小鮮肉
Mandarin: xiao3 xian1 rou4
Cantonese
young hunk; stud muffin
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喉蛾
Mandarin: hou2 e2
acute tonsilitis
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磨碌
Mandarin: mo2 lu4
moron; stupid; retarded (spoken)
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凄酸
Mandarin: qi1 suan1
sorrowful; grieved; distressed
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嘈嘈閉閉
Mandarin: cao1 cao5 bi4 bi4
Simplified: 嘈嘈闭闭
Cantonese
to argue; to fool around; to be noisy
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jeuk
Mandarin: all
jue2
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Mandarin: e1
to defecate | to ease nature | diarrhoea | # adapted from cc-cedict
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興中會
Mandarin: xing1 zhong1 hui4
Revive China Society, founded by Dr Sun Yat-sen 孫中山|孙中山 in 1894 in Honolulu
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晒行馬
Mandarin: shai4 xing2 ma3
Simplified: 晒行马
to make a big show of force by triad gangs to show one's strength in numbers for fighting [colloquial]
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沽空
short-selling
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重色輕友
Mandarin: zhong4 se4 qing1 you3
describes a person who treats love interests better than friends
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Mandarin: yi4
recall; recollect; think of; remember
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春藥
Mandarin: chun1 yao4
aphrodisiac
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石屎樓
Mandarin: shi2 shi3 lou2
a building constructed of concrete and steel
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祈福黨
Mandarin: qi2 fu2 dang3
blessing gangs - con artists who swindle money off superstitious people, promising them a spiritual blessing such as protection or wealth etc.
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仙克萊
cyclamen (genus of plants of the primrose family)
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京都排骨
Kyoto spare ribs
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驅風藥
Mandarin: qu1 feng1 yao4
carminative, a drug causing expulsion of gas from the stomach or bowel | also 驅風劑, 驅風油
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低音結他
Mandarin: di1 yin1 jie2 ta1
Simplified: 低音结他
Bass guitar
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威信掃地
Mandarin: wei1 xin4 sao3 di4
completely discredited
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古植物學
Mandarin: gu3 zhi2 wu4 xue2
palaeobotany
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游𨋢河
Cantonese
having the misfortune of standing in a lift going up instead of down
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刀削麵
Mandarin: dao1 xiao1 mian4
hand shaved noodles: a short flat noodle peeled by knife from a firm slab of dough
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周邊
Mandarin: zhou1 bian1
periphery, peripheral
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Mandarin: an1
an alternative form of案, legal case | # adapted from cc-cedict
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新沂
Mandarin: xin1 yi2
Xinyi (city in Jiangsu)
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落堂
Mandarin: luo4 tang2
(verb) to be dismissed from class (at the end of the lesson); to finish school
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壞咗
Mandarin: huai4 zuo5
Simplified: 坏咗
Cantonese
broken, not working, not functioning
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