Cantonese Dictionary

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爛茸茸
Cantonese
ragged
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潢川
Mandarin: huang2 chuan1
Huangchuan (place in Henan)
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高燒
Mandarin: gao1 shao1
fever; high temperature
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光瞠瞠
Mandarin: guang1 cheng1 cheng1
very bright (light)
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煮鬼
Mandarin: zhu3 gui3
(verb) slander someone behind their back
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少尉
Mandarin: shao4 wei4
second lieutenant, ensign
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疫
Mandarin: yi4
epidemic | plague | pestilence | vaccine | # adapted from cc-cedict
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煤粉
Mandarin: mei2 fen3
coal dust
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切實
Mandarin: qie4 shi2
practical; realistic; feasible; conscientiously; earnestly
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港客
Mandarin: Gang3 ke4
customers from Hong Kong
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平方尺
a square foot
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採青
Mandarin: cai3 qing1
Simplified: 采青
"plucking the greens", during the lion dance to celebrate Chinese New Year or the opening of new shops, auspicious green vegetable such as a lettuce (due to it sounding similar to "making money") is normally hung on a pole for the lion to eat
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回火
Mandarin: hui2 huo3
[n] backfire
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電台
Mandarin: dian4 tai2
radio channel/station
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杷
Mandarin: pa2
loquat
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眼掘掘
Mandarin: yan3 jue2 jue2
to stare at others angrily
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靚到爆燈
Mandarin: jing4 dao4 bao4 deng1
Simplified: 靓到爆灯
(literally: so nice as to blow a lamp); very pretty; stunning
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好狗唔攔路
Mandarin: hao3 gou3 wu2 lan2lu4
Simplified: 好狗唔拦路
Cantonese
get out of the way!; don't block the way!; don't get in the way! [colloquial]
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捻死
Mandarin: nian3 si3
to crush something (typically something small) to death with one's fingers
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啋過你把衰口
Mandarin: cai1 guo4 ni3 ba3 shuai1 kou3
Simplified: 啋过你把衰口
shut your bad mouth, which is an interjection to react against something bad that was spoken by another person
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粵語課本
[n] a Cantonese textbook
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噩夢成真
Mandarin: e4 meng4 cheng2 zhen1
[1] a nightmare comes true [2] [Syn.] 惡夢成真
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軍費
Mandarin: jun1 fei4
military expenditure
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字墨
Mandarin: zi4 mo4
culture; knowledge
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禮貌
Mandarin: li3 mao4
manners; conduct; comportment; etiquette; protocol
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甩甩ｃｕｔｃｕｔ
Mandarin: shuai3 shuai3c u t c u t
dissonant; broken (language); not fluent; not smooth | flowing (speech) [colloquial]
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即影即有相機
Mandarin: ji2 ying3 ji2 you3 xiang1 ji1
Simplified: 即影即有相机
Instant Camera
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美人計
Mandarin: mei3 ren2 ji4
honey trap; beauty trap; sex trap
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曹操
Mandarin: cao2 cao1
Ts'ao Ts'ao (Cao Cao), a warlord and brilliant military strategist of the last Eastern Han dynasty 東漢 most familiar as one of the main characters in the historical novel 三國演義
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炭火
Mandarin: tan4 huo3
(noun) choke fire
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