Cantonese Dictionary

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虛設
Mandarin: xu1 she4
Simplified: 虚设
Something that is nominal and exist in name only; something that is there to act as a dummy only
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廣漢
Mandarin: guang3 han4
Guanghan (city in Sichuan)
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喺返埋一齊
Cantonese
get back together (couples)
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打芡
Mandarin: da3 qian4
verb; to thicken the sauce (cookery)
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福建
Mandarin: fu2 jian4
Fujian (pronounced Hokkien in the local dialect) is the province that borders Guangdong in the north along the coast. It is abbreviated 閩 and its capital city is Fuzhou 福州.
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粗線條
Mandarin: cu1 xian4 tiao2
Simplified: 粗线条
Broad-brush; thick lines; rough outline; rough-and-ready; having little regard for niceties; frank but without tact
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反斗星
Mandarin: fan3 dou4 xing1
a naughty kid
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標新立異
Mandarin: biao1 xin1 li4 yi4
do sth. unconventional, new and original in order to stick out and be different [粤]標奇立異
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刀鋒伺服器
Mandarin: dao1 feng1 si4 fu2 qi4
blade server
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遠眺
Mandarin: yuan3 tiao4
gaze into the distance
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鞭策
Mandarin: bian1 ce4
to urge on; to spur on
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槿
Mandarin: jin3
[plant] hibiscus
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威靈頓街
Mandarin: wei1 ling2 dun4 jie1
Simplified: 威灵顿街
noun; Wellington Street, Street in Hong Kong
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漫畫展
Mandarin: man4 hua4 zhan3
anime manga (comic) convention / exhibition
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墳山
a hill cemetery
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接收器
Mandarin: jie1 shou1 qi4
receiver
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供品
Mandarin: gong4 pin3
offerings
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超級
Mandarin: chao1 ji2
super- (as a adjectival prefix)
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公開鑰匙
Mandarin: gong1 kai2 yao4 shi5
public key (in encryption)
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巨額
Mandarin: ju4 e2
a huge sum (of money); large amount
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三利
"Sam Lee", used in business names to indicate prosperity however in the US in the case of Chinese laundries it has often been mistakenly thought by Americans to have been the name of the owner of the establishment such that he would be incorrectly referred to as a "Mr. Lee"
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發瘟雞
Mandarin: fa1 wen1 ji1
Simplified: 发瘟鸡
Chicken with sickness; gone nuts; gone mental; gone insane
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徙
Mandarin: xi3
(literary) to change one's residence | to shift | to migrate | # adapted from cc-cedict
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閹狗
Mandarin: yan1 gou3
a castrated male dog
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上電
Mandarin: shang4 dian4
Simplified: 上电
the act of taking drugs (slang)
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畫公仔唔駛畫出腸
Mandarin: hua4 gong1zai3 wu2 shi3 hua4 chu1 chang2
Simplified: 画公仔唔驶画出肠
Cantonese
there is no need to spell it out [colloquial]
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民間音樂
Mandarin: min2 jian1 yin1 le4
folk music
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博士學位
Mandarin: bo2 shi4 xue2 wei4
[n] doctorate
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摧枯拉朽
Mandarin: cui1 ku1 la1 xiu3
to describe something that can easily be destroyed as it is already in ruins
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箍牙
Mandarin: gu1 ya2
Orthodontic; braces (for teeth)
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