Cantonese Dictionary

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飲歌
Mandarin: yin3 ge1
Simplified: 饮歌
favourite song for singing (spoken)
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朦朦朧朧
Mandarin: meng2 meng2 long2 long2
hazy; rather dim; quite obscure; somewhat unclear; murky; blur | '朦朦朧朧' is less strong a term than '朦朧', akin to adding an '-ish' | Also written as '蒙蒙朧朧' | Google Hits (Sep 2005): 84,000
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遣送回國
Mandarin: qian3 song4 hui2 guo2
repatriate back to one's country
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夾心糖
bonbon - a candy with chocolate coating and fondant center
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結他手
Mandarin: jie2 ta1 shou3
Simplified: 结他手
a guitarist
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曬馬檻
Mandarin: shai4 ma3 kan3
Simplified: 晒马槛
Cantonese
to visit a brothel | prostitute; to go to a hourly love hotel [colloquial]
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火烈鳥
Mandarin: huo3 lie4 niao3
flamingo (also 紅鶴 or 紅鸛, which can refer to the scarlet ibis)
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秒鐘
a second (1/60th of a minute)
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止得咳
Cantonese
is useful, is usable, effective
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幾十年
Mandarin: ji3 shi2 nian2
Simplified: 几十年
several decades [written and colloquial]
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悛
Mandarin: quan1
to reform | to repent | # adapted from cc-cedict
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廣韻
Mandarin: guang3 yun4
Guangyun - a famous 11th century Chinese rime dictionary; it is important in the study and reconstruction of Middle Chinese.
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好話唔好聽
Mandarin: hao3 hua4 n2 hao3 ting1
Simplified: 好话唔好听
Cantonese
(phrase) honestly speaking; to put it bluntly.
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白撞雨
Mandarin: bai2 zhuang4 yu3
sunshower
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畫展
Mandarin: hua4 zhan3
painting exhibition
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自由亞洲電台
Mandarin: zi4 you2 ya4 zhou1 dian4 tai2
Radio Free Asia
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劈酒
Mandarin: pi1 jiu3
to drink (alcohol) to excess; binge drinking
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岸
Mandarin: an4
bank | shore | beach | coast M: 个gè [个] | high | lofty | proud | # adapted from cc-cedict
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鬥氣
Mandarin: dou4 qi4
Simplified: 斗气
(verb) quarrel
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三文魚
Mandarin: san1 wen2 yu2
salmon -- 三文魚 comes from the transliteration of the English name; the formal name for this fish is 鮭魚 [Syn.] 沙門魚
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馬子
Mandarin: ma3 zi5
commode
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把春
Mandarin: ba3 chun1
completely useless; totally pointless [colloquial]
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生蠔
Mandarin: sheng1 hao2
Simplified: 生蚝
oyster
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澈
Mandarin: che4
clear (water) | thorough | completely | thoroughly | # adapted from cc-cedict
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事後
after, afterwards
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鞋底
sole of a shoe
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假冒
Mandarin: jia3 mao4
to impersonate; to assume the identity of somebody else; to pose as; to counterfeit; to palm off a fake as genuine
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對抗
Mandarin: dui4 kang4
[1] to antagonize; to counter [2] antagonism; confrontation [3] to resist; to oppose; to withstand
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裏海
Mandarin: li3 hai3
Simplified: 里海
the Caspian Sea
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烏眉瞌睡
Mandarin: wu1 mei2 ke1 shui4
Simplified: 乌眉瞌睡
(adjective) sleepy; dispirited; washed out
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