Cantonese Dictionary

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慴
Mandarin: she4
terrified | fear | # adapted from cc-cedict
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鋤大弟
Mandarin: chu2 da4 di4
Simplified: 锄大弟
Big Two (Chinese poker game)
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安定化
Mandarin: an1 ding4 hua4
stabilization
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探海艇
Mandarin: tan4 hai3 ting3
a bathyscape (lit., "vessel for exploring the ocean")
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戰後
Mandarin: zhan4 hou4
postwar
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企人邊
Mandarin: qi3 ren2 bian1
Cantonese
Kangxi radical 9 (人) in its component form 亻
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失蹤
Mandarin: shi1 zong1
to disappear; to be missing; to be unaccounted for
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ā
Mandarin: cantonese-only
a1
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三十八
Mandarin: san1 shi2 ba1
thirty-eight; 38
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中性
Mandarin: zhong1 xing4
neutral
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大撚鑊
Mandarin: da4 nian3 huo4
Simplified: 大撚镬
a fucking mess-up; to be in deep shit [colloquial]
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生果盤
Mandarin: sheng1 guo3pan2
Simplified: 生果盘
fruit platter [colloquial]
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歷代
Mandarin: li4 dai4
successive dynasties; past dynasties
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譪
Mandarin: ai4
an alternative form for 藹, friendly | # adapted from cc-cedict
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幼小
immature; young and small; little
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福海
Mandarin: fu2 hai3
Fuhai (place in Xinjiang)
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擺人上枱
Mandarin: bai3 ren2 shang4 tai2
Cantonese
put someone on the spot; put sb. in place of embarrassment or difficulty
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新加坡航空
Singapore Airlines
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吱吱喳喳
Mandarin: zhi1 zhi1 zha1 zha1
describes someone who talks non-stop like a bird chirping
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亞倫
Mandarin: ya3 lun2 (Taiwan), ya4 lun2 (PRC)
Aaron (a man's name)
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冇本心
Mandarin: mao3 ben3 xin1
Cantonese
heartless; ungrateful (spoken)
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豐寧滿族自治縣
Mandarin: feng1 ning2 Man3 zu2 zi4 zhi4 xian4
Fengning Manzu autonomous county (county in Hebei)
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自打嘴巴
Mandarin: zi4 da3 zui3 ba5
literally: to slap one's own face; to contradict oneself
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麥基爾大學
Mandarin: mai4 ji1 er3 da4 xue2
McGill University, internationally renowned university located in Montréal, Québec, Canada | also written as 麥吉爾大學
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交響樂
Mandarin: jiao1 xiang3 yue4
Simplified: 交响乐
symphonic
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迫車
Mandarin: po4 che1
Simplified: 迫车
to squeeze oneself into a crowded bus; to suffer in the crowded bus
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千瓦
Mandarin: qian1 wa3
kilowatt, a unit of power
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乞兒兜度嗱飯食
Mandarin: qi3er2 dou1 du4 na2 fan4shi5
Simplified: 乞儿兜度嗱饭食
Cantonese
literally: grabbing rice from a beggar's bowl to eat; to bully and exploit disadvantaged members of the public [colloquial]
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雅量
Mandarin: ya3 liang4
magnanimity; tolerance; high capacity for drinking
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喝醉
Mandarin: he1 zui4
to get drunk
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