barcode

/paː⁵⁵ kʰʊk̚⁵/

/paː⁵⁵ kʰʊk̚⁵/


barcode

/paː⁵⁵ kʰʊk̚⁵/

/paː⁵⁵ kʰʊk̚⁵/

barcode頭／barcode头 [Cantonese] ― baa¹ kuk¹ tau⁴ [Jyutping] ― a type of hairstyle where the fringe/bangs resembles a barcode

(Hong Kong Cantonese) of a shape that resembles barcode


add

From English add. Compare Mandarin 加 (jiā, “to friend”).

(Hong Kong Cantonese, social media) to friend; to add someone as contact, friend, or follower


van

ngo⁵ gin³ gaa³ gaa³ wen¹ dou¹ hai⁶ ji⁵ 9.9 miu⁵ lok⁶ fo³, zi¹ hau⁶ tou⁴ heoi³ mou⁴ zung¹ ge³.

我見架架van都係以9.9秒落貨，之後逃去無蹤嘅。

我见架架van都系以9.9秒落货，之后逃去无踪嘅。

(Hong Kong Cantonese, often in compounds) van; minibus; vehicle (Classifier: 架 c)


send

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to send (in electronic means)


bio

/paːi̯²² ɔː⁵⁵/

/paːi̯²² ɔː⁵⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) biology


point

to increase in salary by moving up the wage scale

跳point


book

(Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) to book; to reserve


port

Yes! Why are you letting these two mad dogs to beat me up? Why, tell me! I'm reporting you, you, and you big fat woman!

jau⁵, nei⁵ dim² fong³ loeng⁵ zek³ din¹ gau² lei⁴ daa² ngo⁵ aa³? haa²? nei⁵ gong² aa³! ngo⁵ jiu³ pok¹ nei⁵, pok¹ nei⁵, ngo⁵ jiu³ pok¹ maai⁴ nei⁵ go³ sei² fei⁴ po⁴!

有，你點放兩隻癲狗嚟打我呀？吓？你講呀！我要port你、port你，我要port埋你個死肥婆！

有，你点放两只癫狗嚟打我呀？吓？你讲呀！我要port你、port你，我要port埋你个死肥婆！

2019, “聲音監獄 [Sonic Jail]”, in 理想國 [The Republic], spoken by 單立奇 [Sim Lap Ki] (黃秋生 [Anthony Wong]):

I'm not fucking gonna eat this shit! Damn, I'm gonna report you now! I'm gonna report you now!

ngo⁵ m⁴ lan² sik⁶ laa³ ngo⁵ aa³! jiu², ngo⁵ ji⁴ gaa¹ pot¹ nei⁵ aa³! ngo⁵ ji⁴ gaa¹ pot¹ nei⁵ aa³ ngo⁵!

我唔撚食喇我呀！妖，我而家port你呀！我而家port你呀我！

(Hong Kong Cantonese, transitive, informal) to file a complaint against; to report


A

(Hong Kong Cantonese, slang) single, open to a relationship


gas

/kɛː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

/kɛː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/


last

/laː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

/laː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) last (final; ultimate)


last

/laː⁵⁵ siː²¹/

/laː⁵⁵ siː²¹/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to last (to endure)


router

/ɹaːu̯⁵⁵ tʰaː³⁵/


in

(Hong Kong Cantonese) in fashion; popular


in

For quotations using this term, see Citations:in.


in

(Hong Kong Cantonese, mathematics) to integrate


give

Probably from clipping of English give a shit.

(Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism, chiefly in the negative) to give a shit; to care about; to pay attention to someone


buy

2001, 尋秦記 [A Step into the Past], episode 1, spoken by 麥偉健 (麥長青 [Evergreen Mak Cheung-ching]):

Shut up. I'm not buying your [suggestion].

收聲呀，我唔buy你呀。

收声呀，我唔buy你呀。

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to accept (an idea)


take

(Hong Kong Cantonese, film) take; attempts of recording or filming at one time (Classifier: 個／个 c)


take

一take過／一take过 [Cantonese] ― jat¹ tik¹ gwo³ [Jyutping] ― in one attempt

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Classifier for attempts.


can

/kʰɛːn²²⁻³⁵/

/kʰɛːn²²⁻³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) canteen; restaurant (in a university campus)


ending

/ɛːn⁵⁵ tɪŋ³⁵/

/ɛːn⁵⁵ tɪŋ³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) ending (end) (Classifier: 個／个 c)

(Hong Kong Cantonese) ending theme; end title sequence (Classifier: 首 c)


percent

/pʰœː²² sɛːn⁵⁵/

/pʰœː²² sɛːn⁵⁵/

From English percent. Doublet of 巴仙 (bāxiān).

(Hong Kong Cantonese) percent (Classifier: 個／个 c)


yeah

(Hong Kong Cantonese, somewhat dated) cool; stylish


wiki

/wiː⁵⁵ kʰiː³⁵/

/wiː⁵⁵ kʰiː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to wiki; to research on Wikipedia


wiki

/wiː⁵⁵ kʰiː³⁵/

/wiː⁵⁵ kʰiː³⁵/


wiki

/wiː⁵⁵ kʰiː³⁵/

/wiː⁵⁵ kʰiː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) article on Wikipedia


work

en-verb

work (third-person singular simple present works, present participle working, simple past and past participle worked or (rare/archaic) wrought)

works (present singular third-person)
working (participle present)
worked (participle past)
worked (past)
wrought (archaic participle past)
wrought (archaic past)
work (infinitive)

→ Cantonese: work (adjective)

From Middle English werken and worchen, from Old English wyrċan and wircan (Mercian), from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥ǵyéti (“to be working, to be at work”), from the root *werǵ-. Cognate with Old Frisian werka, wirka, Old Saxon wirkian, Low German warken, Dutch werken, Old High German wurken (German wirken, werken and werkeln), Old Norse yrkja and orka, (Swedish yrka and orka), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽 (waurkjan).

inh

This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXXVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 287:

I work as a cleaner.

(intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.


for

隻叉係for食蛋糕嘅。

只叉系for食蛋糕嘅。

(Hong Kong Cantonese) for; for the purpose of

ni¹ go³ wai⁶⁻² hai⁶ fo⁶ zoeng² ze² co⁵ gaa³.

呢個位係for長者坐㗎。

呢个位系for长者坐㗎。

Would the portion this meal set be too little, if it were for three people to consume?

go³ set¹ jyu⁴ gwo² fo⁶ saam¹ go³ jan⁴⁻² sik⁶ wui⁵ m⁴ wui⁵ taai³ sai³ fan⁶?

個set如果for三個人食會唔會太細份？

个set如果for三个人食会唔会太细份？

(Hong Kong Cantonese) for; for the sake of; intended to belong to or used by


for

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to forward (a message, an email, etc.)


mouse

/mɐu̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

/maːu̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

/mɐu̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

/maːu̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) mouse (Classifier: 隻／只 c; 個／个 c)


case

/kʰei̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

/kʰei̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

case (container; box) (Classifier: 個／个 c)

case (piece of work) (Classifier: 個／个 c)

case (piece of work) (when associated with a file detailing the case, e.g. applications or reports) (Classifier: 隻／只 c)

the person or client associated with such case (Classifier: 隻／只 c)

Huh! What sort of big case are they [the police] working on?

waa³ haai², gaau² gan² me¹ daai⁶ kei¹ si² aa³?

case (legal proceeding) (Classifier: 單／单 c; 隻／只 c)


update

/ɐp̚⁵ tei̯⁵⁵/

/ɐp̚⁵ tei̯⁵⁵/


mind

2016 June 2, Oriental Daily News, 《杜如風恨畀梁朝偉抽水：我唔Mind》

taa¹ zik¹ syut³: “Ngo⁵ deoi³ ni¹ go³ jan⁴ No comment. (gok³ dak¹ keoi⁵ cau¹ nei⁵ seoi²?) No comment, dim² gaai² nei⁵ dei⁶ m⁴ waa⁶ wan² loeng⁴ ciu⁴ wai⁵ tung⁴ ngo⁵ hap⁶ zok³, ngo⁵ m⁴ paa³, jik⁶ dou¹ hou² hei¹ mong⁶ loeng⁴ ciu⁴ wai⁵ cau¹ ngo⁵ seoi², keoi⁵ dim² cau¹ ngo⁵ dou¹ m⁴ maai¹.”

她即說：「我對呢個人No comment。（覺得佢抽你水？）No comment，點解你哋唔話搵梁朝偉同我合作，我唔怕，亦都好希望梁朝偉抽我水，佢點抽我都唔mind。」

她即说：「我对呢个人No comment。（觉得佢抽你水？）No comment，点解你哋唔话揾梁朝伟同我合作，我唔怕，亦都好希望梁朝伟抽我水，佢点抽我都唔mind。」

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to mind; to care about


AC

/ei̯⁵⁵ siː⁵⁵/

/ei̯⁵⁵ siː⁵⁵/

Borrowed from English account. Doublet of account.

冇AC都可以

(Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) account


warm

(Hong Kong Cantonese, of person, environment, family) warm (caring and loving)

environment; family; environment; family


KY

/kʰei̯⁵⁵ waːi̯⁵⁵/

/kʰei̯⁵⁵ waːi̯⁵⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) personal lubricant


KS

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, text messaging) Synonym of 其實／其实 (kei⁴ sat⁶)


PR

/pʰiː⁵⁵ aːu̯⁵⁵/

/pʰiː⁵⁵ aː⁵⁵ lou̯²¹/

/pʰiː⁵⁵ aːu̯⁵⁵/

/pʰiː⁵⁵ aː⁵⁵ lou̯²¹/


AB

/ei̯⁵⁵ piː⁵⁵/

/ei̯⁵⁵ piː⁵⁵/

From the first two letters of the English alphabet A and B.

to go to work separated into two teams (i.e. each team goes to work on alternative days)

分AB team返工

行AB team

分AB組

分AB组

(Hong Kong Cantonese) two separate (instances)


MC

/ɛːm⁵⁵ siː⁵⁵/

/ɛːm⁵⁵ siː⁵⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) emcee; host; presenter


MC

/ɛːm⁵⁵ siː⁵⁵/

/ɛːm⁵⁵ siː⁵⁵/

multiple-choice question
multiple-choice question

(Hong Kong Cantonese, school slang) multiple-choice question (Classifier: 條／条 c)


bam

Misspelling of English ban. Doublet of ban.

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, leetspeak, neologism) to ban


cream

搽cream [Cantonese] ― caa⁴ kwim¹ [Jyutping] ― to apply face cream

(Hong Kong Cantonese) face cream; hand cream

(Hong Kong Cantonese) cream; whipped cream


civil

From clipping of English civil engineering.

(Hong Kong Cantonese) civil engineering; civil engineer


jump

(Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism, euphemistic) to commit suicide by jumping from a building; to jump to one's death


wing

(Hong Kong Cantonese, slang, of person) intoxicated; tipsy


hi

From English hi, see hi auntie for more.

(Hong Kong Cantonese, euphemistic, originally Internet slang, neologism) Alternative form of 屌 (diu²)


hi

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Alternative form of 揩 (haai¹)


moon

Deliberate misspelling of mon. Originated from a post on HKGolden circa 2005.

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, neologism) Synonym of mon (Classifier: 隻／只 c)


moon

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, neologism) Synonym of mon


boy

(Hong Kong Cantonese) The name of the Latin-script letter B/b.


perfect

/pʰœː⁵⁵ fɪk̚²¹/

/pʰœː⁵⁵ fɛːk̚²¹/

/pʰœː⁵⁵ fɪk̚²¹/

/pʰœː⁵⁵ fɛːk̚²¹/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) perfect; excellent; flawless


pizza

/pʰiː⁵⁵ saː²¹/

/pʰiː⁵⁵ saː³⁵/

/pʰiː⁵⁵ saː²¹/

/pʰiː⁵⁵ saː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) pizza (Classifier: 個／个 c; 塊／块 c; 件 c; 嚿 c)


talk

聽talk／听talk [Cantonese] ― teng¹ tok¹ [Jyutping] ― to attend a talk

(Hong Kong Cantonese) talk; lecture; seminar


talk

talk得 [Cantonese] ― tok¹ dak¹ [Jyutping] ― talkative

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to talk (especially a lot)


toilet

/tʰɔːi̯⁵⁵ lɛːt̚²¹/

/tʰɔː⁵⁵ jiː²¹ lɛː²¹/

/tʰɔːi̯⁵⁵ lɛːt̚²¹/

/tʰɔː⁵⁵ jiː²¹ lɛː²¹/

From English toilet. The pronunciation toi¹ ji⁴ le⁴ is probably from Japanese トイレ (toire), in turn from English toilet.


arts

/aːt̚⁵ siː³⁵/

/aːt̚⁵ siː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) arts; fine arts; liberal arts


good

/kuːt̚²¹ kuːt̚² kuːt̚³⁵/

/kuːt̚²¹ kuːt̚² kuːt̚³⁵/

Romanisation of 嗗 (gut⁴, gut⁶, gut²), influenced by spelling of English good. Not related to English good semantically.

yue-etym-rom

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Alternative form of 嗗 (“sound of gulp”)


good

/kuːt̚²¹ kuːt̚² kuːt̚³⁵/

/kuːt̚²¹ kuːt̚² kuːt̚³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Alternative form of 嗗 (“to gulp”)


which

From English which (“non-restrictive relative clause marker”).

der

(Hong Kong Cantonese) which; discourse marker introducing personal assessment or comment of the preceding clause


ban

ban橋／ban桥 [Cantonese] ― ben¹ kiu⁴⁻² [Jyutping] ― to reject an idea

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to reject (ideas, proposals, suggestions, etc.)


so

From clipping of English jetso, from Cantonese 著數／着数 (zoek⁶ sou³).

(Hong Kong Cantonese) benefit; advantage; bargain; discount


so

(Hong Kong Cantonese) bargain; advantageous


so

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to respond; to pay attention to


so

(Hong Kong Cantonese, in compounds) Alternative form of soc (“society”)


build

From clipping of English building. Compare Japanese ビル.

main build

(Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial, only in compounds) building


account

/aː²² kʰaːn⁵⁵/

/aː²² kʰaːŋ⁵⁵/

/aː²² kʰaːn⁵⁵/

/aː²² kʰaːŋ⁵⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) account that is used for accessing Internet services


account

/aː²² kʰaːn⁵⁵/

/aː²² kʰaːŋ⁵⁵/

/aː²² kʰaːn⁵⁵/

/aː²² kʰaːŋ⁵⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) accounting; accounting industry; accountant


face

(Hong Kong Cantonese) face (reputation; dignity)


底

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tiːlʔ): semantic 广 (“building”) + phonetic 氐 (OC *tiːl, *til) – the bottom or base, foundation of a building. Note that 氐, according to one interpretation, is a figure bowing or the root of a tree, hence a connotation of "down"; if the interpretation is correct, the phonetic component also adds part of the meaning.
Cognate with 低 (OC *tiːl, “to lower; low”), 柢 (OC *tiːl, *tiːlʔ, *tiːls, “root of a tree; base”).

och-l

燥底 [Cantonese] ― cou³ dai² [Jyutping] ― having a bad temper

紅底／红底 [Cantonese] ― hung⁴ dai² [Jyutping] ― having pro-CCP leanings

M底 [Cantonese] ― em¹ dai² [Jyutping] ― having a masochistic side

(Hong Kong Cantonese) tendency in one's personality; leaning


keep

to keep; to maintain condition of; to preserve

(sports) to mark or guard a player from the opposing team


feel

From English feel. Cognate with Mandarin fu.

keoi⁵ hou² ci⁵ deoi³ nei⁵ jau⁵ fiu¹ wo³.

佢好似對你有feel喎。

佢好似对你有feel㖞。


get

佢講嘅嘢太複雜，我get唔到佢咩意思。

The stuff that he is talking about is too complicated, I don't get what he means.

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to understand, often used with "到"


OK

/ˀoʊ̯⁵⁵ kʰeɪ̯⁵¹/

/ˀoʊ̯⁵⁵ kʰeɪ̯⁵⁵/

/ou̯⁵⁵ kʰei̯⁵⁵/

/ˀoʊ̯⁵⁵ kʰeɪ̯⁵¹/

/ˀoʊ̯⁵⁵ kʰeɪ̯⁵⁵/

/ou̯⁵⁵ kʰei̯⁵⁵/

呢科都OK易㗎。

(Hong Kong Cantonese) moderately; fairly


OK

/ˀoʊ̯⁵⁵ kʰeɪ̯⁵¹/

/ˀoʊ̯⁵⁵ kʰeɪ̯⁵⁵/

/ou̯⁵⁵ kʰei̯⁵⁵/

/ˀoʊ̯⁵⁵ kʰeɪ̯⁵¹/

/ˀoʊ̯⁵⁵ kʰeɪ̯⁵⁵/

/ou̯⁵⁵ kʰei̯⁵⁵/

2020, 斗零, 《拍廣吿其實唔難》, Hong Kong: 非凡出版, →ISBN, page 219:

First, the production time of advertisements in Hong Kong is short, especially for post-production, where basically, from deciding to shoot an ad to the ad hitting the streets, it is on average about one month. As for CG (computer graphics), usually we would only start the project after our client OKs the rough cut, so it's just about one week's time, which is definitely not enough time.

dai⁶ jat¹, hoeng¹ gong² gwong² gou³ ge³ zai³ zok³ si⁴ gaan³ dyun², jau⁴ kei⁴ hai⁶ hau⁶ zai³ si⁴ gaan³, gei¹ bun² soeng⁶ jau⁴ kyut³ ding⁶ paak³ gwong² gou³ dou³ gwong² gou³ gin³ gaai¹, ping⁴ gwan¹ dou¹ hai⁶ jat¹ go³ jyut⁶ zo² jau⁶⁻², ji⁴ CG (din⁶ nou⁵ dung⁶ waa⁶⁻²) tung¹ soeng⁴ hai⁶ jiu³ haak³ wu⁶ ou¹ kei¹ zo² go³ co¹ zin² baan² bun² (rough cut) sin¹ wui⁵ hoi¹ ci² zou⁶, so² ji⁵ zik¹ hai⁶ dak¹ jat¹ go³ sing¹ kei⁴ zo² jau⁶⁻², gam² hai⁶ jyun⁴ cyun⁴ m⁴ gau³ si⁴ gaan³.

第一，香港廣吿嘅製作時間短，尤其係後製時間，基本上由決定拍廣吿到廣吿見街，平均都係一個月左右，而CG（電腦動畫）通常係要客戶ok咗個初剪版本（rough cut）先會開始做，所以即係得一個星期左右，咁係完全唔夠時間。

第一，香港广告嘅制作时间短，尤其系后制时间，基本上由决定拍广告到广告见街，平均都系一个月左右，而CG（电脑动画）通常系要客户ok咗个初剪版本（rough cut）先会开始做，所以即系得一个星期左右，咁系完全唔够时间。

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to OK; to approve; to accept

歐克

one of the ways to transliterate into Chinese characters


look

(Hong Kong Cantonese) look; physical appearance; visual impression; style; outfit


hurt

1996, The God of Cookery, spoken by Fortune teller (Kingdom Yuen):

Hey! I'm doing this only for a living, there's no need to hurt me emotionally, isn't it?

wai³! wan² sik⁶ ze¹, m⁴ sai² gam² hoet¹ ngo⁵ aa¹ waa²?

喂！搵食啫，唔使噉hurt我啊話？

喂！揾食啫，唔使噉hurt我啊话？

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to hurt someone emotionally


bug

(Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) bug (Classifier: 個／个 c; 隻／只 c)

(Hong Kong Cantonese, by extension) plot hole (Classifier: 個／个 c)


bug

(Hong Kong Cantonese, of software) to have bugs; to fault


bug

(Hong Kong Cantonese, of software) buggy; bugged


fit

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Used in 揸fit and 花fit.


thank you

/fɛːŋ⁵⁵ kʰiːu̯²¹/

/fɛːn⁵⁵ kʰiːu̯²¹/

/tɛːŋ⁵⁵ kʰiːu̯²¹/

/fɛːŋ⁵⁵ kʰiːu̯²¹/

/fɛːn⁵⁵ kʰiːu̯²¹/

/tɛːŋ⁵⁵ kʰiːu̯²¹/

thank you你

2000, War of the Genders, spoken by Lok (Dayo Wong):

Thank you very much, that's how it'll be. Thanks, thanks.

feng¹ kiu⁴⁻¹ ju¹ laa¹, jat¹ jyu¹ gam² waa⁶, feng¹ kiu⁴ feng¹ kiu⁴

thank you you啦，一於噉話，thank you thank you

thank you you啦，一于噉话，thank you thank you

I am vely vely vely vely vely vely thank q you / Thank q you love my black skin shoes / I love your ball shoes too / […] / I am rely rely rely rely rely rely thank q you / Thank q you love my left door tooth / I love your wine 凹 too

2017, “Earth vely danger [Earth is very dangerous]”performed by Dickson, TVMost:

I am extremely grateful to you / Thank you for loving my black leather shoes / I love your sneakers too / […] / I am really grateful to you / Thank you for loving my left incisor / I love your dimples too

I'm fine thank橋 u

2021, “I'm fine, thx”, Serrini (lyrics)performed by Serrini:

(Hong Kong Cantonese, sometimes humorous) to thank; to be grateful to


what

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to WhatsApp; to send via WhatsApp


common

/kʰɐm⁵⁵ mɐn²¹/

/kʰɐm⁵⁵ mɐn²¹/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) common; usual; widespread


curve

/kʰœː⁵⁵ fuː²¹/

/kʰœː⁵⁵ fuː²¹/

curve (grading system) (Classifier: 條／条 c)

(by extension) standards (something used as a measure for comparison) (Classifier: 條／条 c)


hang

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Short for hang機／hang机 (heng¹ gei¹).


hold

to put something on hold; to cause delay


down

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to be sad; to be depressed


down

From English down (“inoperable; out of service”, adjective).

bor

(Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly computing) to be out of service


boot

boot機／boot机 [Cantonese] ― but¹ gei¹ [Jyutping]


sell

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to sell; to promote services or products; to promote a viewpoint


concern

/kʰɔːn²² sœːn⁵⁵/

/kʰɔːn²² sœːn⁵⁵/


concern

/kʰɔːn²² sœːn⁵⁵/

/kʰɔːn²² sœːn⁵⁵/

2022, 王晉熙, 粵語忌諱現象的語言學研究, page 155:

ni¹ go³ dou¹ jau⁵ di¹ sai³ doi⁶ zi¹ zang¹ ge³, ngo⁵ gok³ dak¹ lou⁵ jan⁴ gaa¹ zau⁶ m⁴ hai⁶ go³ go³ dou¹ kon⁶ soen¹, hau⁶ sang¹ gang³ gaa¹ m⁴ wui⁵ laa¹, ho² nang⁴ zan¹ hai⁶ hou² lou⁵ go² di¹ sin¹ wui⁵.

呢個都有啲世代之爭嘅，我覺得老人家就唔係個個都concern，後生更加唔會啦，可能真係好老嗰啲先會。

2022, 王晉熙, 粵語忌諱現象的語言學研究, page 155:

呢个都有啲世代之争嘅，我觉得老人家就唔系个个都concern，后生更加唔会啦，可能真系好老嗰啲先会。

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to be concerned about


do

From English do. Resemblance to Taishanese 做 (du¹, “to do”) is probably coincidence.


between

Reinterpretation of English btw as an abbreviation of between.

2013, 于日辰（小姓奴）, 壹獄壹世界 A World in an Iron Grille, page 206:

By the way, there's no need to be baffled, the handwriting [of this letter] isn't mine, I got someone to write it for me.

Between, m⁴ sai² gok³ dak¹ kei⁴ gwaai³, di¹ zi⁶ zik¹ bat¹ si⁶ ngo⁵ dik¹, ngo⁵ wan² jan⁴ doi⁶ se².

Between, 唔使覺得奇怪，D字跡不是我的，我搵人代寫。

Between, 唔使觉得奇怪，D字迹不是我的，我揾人代写。

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, neologism, humorous) BTW; by the way


show

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Alternative form of 騷／骚 (sou¹, “show”)


show

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to show; to display

no show [Cantonese] ― nou¹ sou¹ [Jyutping] ― no-show


show

(Hong Kong Cantonese, eye dialect) Alternative form of so (sou¹, “to respond; to pay attention to”)


cut

cut開嚿牛扒／cut开嚿牛扒 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― kat¹ hoi¹ gau⁶ ngau⁴ paa⁴⁻² [Jyutping] ― to cut a steak into pieces


二

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (二):
* → Japanese: 二(に) (ni)
* → Korean: 이(二) (i)
* → Vietnamese: nhị (二)

→ Bouyei: ngih

→ Northern Thai: ᨿᩦ᩵

→ Lao: ຍີ່ (nyī)

→ Thai: ยี่ (yîi)

→ Vietnamese: nhì

→ Zhuang: ngeih

Ideogram (指事) - two parallel strokes. Compare with 一, one stroke meaning one, 三, three strokes meaning three, and 亖 (sì), four strokes meaning four. Duplication of 一 (“one”).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/s-ni-s. Cognate to Tibetan གཉིས (gnyis), Sikkimese ཉི (nyi), Tangut 𗍫 (*njɨ̱¹), Burmese နှစ် (hnac), and Nuosu ꑍ (nyip). See also: 次 (OC *sn̥ʰis, “second; next”), a cognate within Chinese languages.

I got a level two in Chinese, can't get into university.

ngo⁵ zung¹ man⁴⁻² ji⁶ zo², jap⁶ m⁴ dou³ ju¹.

我中文二咗，入唔到U。

(Hong Kong Cantonese, school slang) to obtain a level two in a subject in DSE (exam) (usually implies failing the subject)


laser

(Hong Kong Cantonese) beauty treatment that involves using laser


丁

→ Zhuang: ding

Pictogram (象形) – different theories exist:
* the head of a nail. The derivative 釘 is now used to represent this sense. This interpretation was formulated by Liu Xinyuan (劉心源), Lin Yiguang (林義光), and Wu Qichang (吳其昌).
* a head. The derivative 天 and 頂 is now used to represent this sense. Characters like 元 contains it as a semantic component. This is interpretation was formulated by Gao Hongjin (高鴻縉) and could be linked to the first interpretation ("head of a nail").
* a city wall. In ancient China, city walls were square-shaped. The derivative 成 and later 城 is now used to represent this sense. The character 正／征 contains it as a semantic component (but in 邑, the top component is 囗, not 丁). This interpretation was formulated by He Linyi (何琳儀).
See also 旦.

撈丁

捞丁

出前一丁 w:zh:出前一丁

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Short for 出前一丁 (“Demae Itcho”), a type of instant noodles.


丁

From the orthographic similarity of J (zei¹, “penis”), an initialism of jer (zoe¹, “penis”), which is a romanisation of 脧 (zoe¹).

Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China

Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong

(Hong Kong Cantonese, slang, euphemistic) penis (Classifier: 條／条)

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang) to masturbate; to have sexual fantasy towards another individual


wow

From English wow, used in the sarcastic Internet slang Wow! Old news is so exciting!.

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, of news) to become outdated; to become old news


push

From English push, via 推 (teoi¹, “to bump a thread in support”, literally “to push”).

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang) to bump a thread in support


round

I'll be paying for drinks in this round!

呢個round，我嘅！

呢个round，我嘅！

(Hong Kong Cantonese) round (serving of something) (Classifier: 個／个 c)

1975, “《十四座》 [14 Seats]”, performed by Wan Kwong:

I'm so stupid driving a 14-seat minibus. Even if I drive one more round, it still isn't full.

zan¹ zan¹ zit³ do⁶, ngo⁵ zaa¹ gaa³ sap⁶ sei³ zo⁶, dau¹ do¹ go³ laang¹, keoi⁵ dou¹ mei⁶ cang⁴ mun⁵ zo⁶

真真折墮 我揸架十四座 兜多個冷 佢都未曾滿座

真真折堕 我揸架十四座 兜多个冷 佢都未曾满座

(Hong Kong Cantonese) round; turn (Classifier: 個／个 c)


round

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Classifier for events that occurs in rounds or turns.


engine

/ɛːn⁵⁵ t͡siːn³⁵/

/ɛːn⁵⁵ t͡siːn³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) engineering industry; engineer

2001 May 23, 小賤, “好慢~~~~”, in talk.rumors (Usenet):

I said I'm studying engineering, don't really get to know girls much

ngo⁵ dou¹ waa⁶ ngo⁵ duk⁶ en¹ zin²
mou⁵ mat¹ sik¹ dou² neoi⁵ zai² lok³

我都話我讀Engine
無乜識到女仔咯

我都话我读Engine
无乜识到女仔咯

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) engineering


engine

/ɛːn⁵⁵ t͡siːn²¹/

/ɛːn⁵⁵ t͡siːn³⁵/

/ɛːn⁵⁵ t͡siːn²¹/

/ɛːn⁵⁵ t͡siːn³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) engine (mechanical device; part of a vehicle; computing)


wet

(Hong Kong Cantonese, dated) to go clubbing; to party; to hang out; to have a good time


set

(Hong Kong Cantonese) package or collection of items (Classifier: 個／个 c)


set

set鬧鐘

set闹钟

set場

set场

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to set; to prepare


set

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Classifier for packages or collections of items.


pull

From English pull, via 拉 (“to cause a thread to sink to the bottom of list of threads”, literally “to pull”).

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang) to cause a thread to sink to the bottom of list of threads


commission

/kʰɐm²² miːt̚⁵ sɵn³⁵/

/kʰɐm²² miːt̚⁵ sɵn³⁵/

From English commission. Compare Wu 康密興／康密兴 (¹khaon-miq-shin).


heart

有heart [Cantonese] ― jau⁵ haat¹ [Jyutping] ― passionate

冇heart [Cantonese] ― mou⁵ haat¹ [Jyutping] ― without passion

(Hong Kong Cantonese, figuratively) passion; determination (Classifier: 個／个 c)


sorry

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Singapore Hokkien, Penang Hokkien, colloquial) sorry


dry

/t͡ʃɹaːi̯⁵⁵/


dead

Pseudo back-formation from English deadline.

呢份功課今晚dead。

呢份功课今晚dead。

(Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly university slang) to be due by; to have a deadline of


party

/pʰaː⁵⁵ tʰiː²¹ pʰaːt̚⁵ tʰiː²¹/

/pʰaː⁵⁵ tʰiː²¹ pʰaːt̚⁵ tʰiː²¹/

From English party. Doublet of P, 派對／派对 (pàiduì), and 趴體／趴体 (pātǐ).


d

For pronunciation and definitions of d – see 啲 (“a few; a little bit; some; a bit; a bit more; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of 啲).
From English differentiate or the differentiation symbol d.

zh-see

d唔到 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― di¹ m⁴ dou³⁻² [Jyutping] ― nondifferentiable

d兩次／d两次 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― di¹ loeng⁵ ci³ [Jyutping] ― to take the second derivative (literally, “to differentiate twice”)

(Hong Kong Cantonese, mathematics) to differentiate


pass

/pʰaː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

/pʰaː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

You can only ride the vehicle if you have this pass.

jau⁵ ni¹ zoeng¹ pass sin¹ soeng⁵ dak¹ ce¹.

有呢張pass先上得車。

有呢张pass先上得车。

(Hong Kong Cantonese) pass (document granting permission to pass)


pass

/pʰaː⁵⁵ siː²¹/

/pʰaː⁵⁵ siː²¹/

Pass個波過嚟。

Pass个波过嚟。

Pass on the responsibility to the other side.

將個波pass畀對家。

将个波pass畀对家。

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to pass; to transfer

I passed all the subjects this semester.

gam¹ go³ hok⁶ kei⁴ ngo⁵ cyun⁴ bou⁶ fo¹ dou¹ pass saai³.

今個學期我全部科都pass嗮。

今个学期我全部科都pass嗮。

件貨pass唔pass？

件货pass唔pass？

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to pass; to achieve a certain benchmark or acceptance level

今鋪我pass，唔玩。

今铺我pass，唔玩。

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to pass; to decline in one's turn


house

/hɐu̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

/hɐu̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) mansion; large house (Classifier: 間／间 c)


伏

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 人 (“person”) + 犬 (“dog”) – meaning “prostrate”.
* A dog at the side of a person.
* A person adopting the position of a dog.

Han compound

(Hong Kong Cantonese) below expectation; worse than anticipated; trappy


menu

/mɛːn⁵⁵ niːu̯³⁵/

/mɛːn⁵⁵ niːu̯³⁵/


偷

From on9, reinterpreted as the keystrokes in Simplified Cangjie which produces the character 偷.

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, leetspeak) Alternative form of on9


live

From English live, possibly via Japanese ライブ (raibu).

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Taiwanese Mandarin) to broadcast live; to stream

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang) to reach the end (i.e. the newest posts) on a forum thread


live

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Taiwanese Mandarin) live performance; concert　(Classifier: 場／场 m c)

(Hong Kong Cantonese) livestream (Classifier: 條／条 c)


仙

*僊
仚
屳
㒨
僲
𠑗
𠏡
銑

五仙硬幣

五仙硬币

He is a son born out of wedlock, so when his dad died, he didn't even inherit one cent.

keoi⁵ hai⁶ si¹ sang¹ zi², keoi⁵ lou⁵ dau⁶ sei² go² zan⁶ jat¹ go³ sin¹ dou¹ mou⁵ fan¹ bei² keoi⁵.

佢係私生子，佢老豆死嗰陣一個仙都冇分畀佢。

佢系私生子，佢老豆死嗰阵一个仙都冇分畀佢。

(Cantonese, Southern Min, Malaysian and Singapore Mandarin) cent (Classifier: 個／个 c)


list

/liː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

/liː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) list; enumeration or compilation of items; the paper or document of which the list is written or printed on (Classifier: 個／个 c; 張／张 c; 條／条 c)


list

/liː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

/liː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to list; to create a list of items


key

He did not came today for the class photo taking. The only way [to solve this] is to photoshop his face back onto the class photo.

gam¹ jat⁶ keoi⁵ mou⁵ lai⁴ jing² baan¹ soeng⁶⁻², wai⁴ jau⁵ zi¹ hau⁶ ki¹ faan¹ keoi⁵ go³ daai⁶ tau⁴⁻² lok⁶ heoi³ zoeng¹ soeng⁶⁻² dou⁶ laa¹.

今日佢冇嚟影班相，唯有之後key返佢個大頭落去張相度啦。

今日佢冇嚟影班相，唯有之后key返佢个大头落去张相度啦。

(Hong Kong Cantonese, slightly dated) to superimpose (an image, typically that of a person) onto another image


厹

/kɐu̯³⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵/

/kɐu̯³⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵/

/t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵/

/t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵/

The character 厹 looks like 九公 written vertically, and 九 (gau²) has the same pronunciation as 狗 (gau²) in Cantonese.

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang) Alternative form of 狗公 (“pervert; lecher”)


mask

/maː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

/maː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/


勞

From English Rolex. Orthography from 勞力士／劳力士.

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Rolex watch (Classifier: 隻／只 c)


咇

From English beat (“route patrolled by a police officer or a guard”).

bor

(Hong Kong Cantonese) beat; patrol (by police officers)


咇

甩beat [Cantonese] ― lat¹ bit¹ [Jyutping] ― to be out of sync with the rhythm

(Hong Kong Cantonese, music) beat; rhythm


含

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡɯːm): phonetic 今 (OC *krɯm) + semantic 口 (“mouth”).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *gam (“to put into mouth; to seize with mouth”) (STEDT); cognate with Tibetan འགམ་པ ('gam pa, “to put into the mouth”), Proto-Tani *g(j)am (“bite”).
Within Chinese, cognate with 函 (OC *ɡuːm, *ɡruːm, “to contain; box; letter”) (Schuessler, 2007). 銜 (OC *ɡraːm, “to carry in the mouth; horse's bit”) is probably related. Bodman (1980) considers 頷 (OC *ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ) to be the endoactive of 含 (OC *ɡɯːm, “to hold in the mouth”), literally “the thing that holds something in the mouth”.

och-l

今鋪真係含喇！

今铺真系含喇！

(Hong Kong Cantonese, euphemistic) Short for 含撚. (all senses)


啤

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声): semantic 口 (“mouth (phonetic)”) + phonetic 卑.
Borrowed from English beer. First attested in 1828, in Robert Morrison's Vocabulary of the Canton Dialect.

Han compound

Where are we going to drink beer tonight?

gam¹ maan⁵⁻¹ heoi³ bin¹ dou⁶ be¹ jat¹ be¹ aa³?

今晚去邊度啤一啤啊？

今晚去边度啤一啤啊？

In this happy occasion of your promotion, how could we not drink beer?

nei⁵ sing¹ zik¹ gam³ hoi¹ sam¹, dim² ho² ji⁵ m⁴ be¹ be¹ keoi⁵ aa³?

你升職咁開心，點可以唔啤啤佢啊？

你升职咁开心，点可以唔啤啤佢啊？


呢

吶
膩
逆
爾
邇
le
年
哖

(Hong Kong Cantonese, gaming) levels (in a video game)

(Hong Kong Cantonese, figuratively) levels in a society; social class


出

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 止 (“foot”) + 凵 (“cave”) – to step out of a cave; to exit. Compare 各.
By the Qin dynasty, the character has lost its original shape. Based on the distorted form, Shuowen mistakenly interprets the character as a pictogram (象形) of a plant (屮) growing outwards.
STEDT derives this word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-twak (“to come or go out; to emerge”); compare Burmese ထွက် (htwak, “to go or come out; to produce or yield; to leave”), Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔ-twakᴴ (“to come or got out; to emerge”), Proto-Kuki-Chin *tshuak-I, *tshuaʔ-II (“to come out; to emerge; to appear”). The -t final may be particular to Chinese.
Alternatively, Sagart (1999) and Baxter and Sagart (2014) suggest that this word is related to other words that express extraction, such as 掘 (OC *[ɡ]ut, “to dig out”), and reconstruct the Old Chinese with an intransitivizing prefix *t-.

cog

出部電話畀佢用

出部电话畀佢用

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to buy (an electronic device, such as a mobile phone or computer)


喪

Originally ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *smaːŋs, *smaːŋ): phonetic 桑 (OC *sŋaːŋ, “mulberry tree”) + semantic 㗊 (“many mouths”). The number of mouths frequently varied. Sometimes 走 (“run”) was included as a semantic component, and later 亡 (OC *maŋ, “die”) was added as a phonetic (and also possibly semantic) component.
In the seal script became ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *smaːŋs, *smaːŋ): semantic 哭 (“cry”) + phonetic 亡 (OC *maŋ, “die”), from which the modern form derives.
Compare 咢 and 噩, which may be derived from or originally the same character as 喪.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ma (“not”). Cognate with 亡 (OC *maŋ, “to disappear”). The level-toned pronunciation has a nominal prefix *s-, lit. "circumstances associated with disappearance (death)", whereas the departing-toned pronunciation has a formally identical causative prefix *s- and an exoactive suffix *-s, lit. "to cause to disappear".

Han compound

丧
䘮
𠸶
𠷔
𡂤
𡂧
𡴧
𦦦
𡚏
𦦭
𦱺


塘

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'aːŋ): semantic 土 (“dirt”) + phonetic 唐 (OC *ɡl'aːŋ).

Han compound

今朝我游咗廿個塘。

今朝我游咗廿个塘。

(Hong Kong Cantonese, swimming) lap; length (distance equal to the length of a swimming pool) (Classifier: 個／个 c)


姼

/nɵy̯¹³ tɔː⁵⁵/

/tɔː⁵⁵ nɵy̯¹³/

/nɵy̯¹³ tɔː⁵⁵/

/tɔː⁵⁵ nɵy̯¹³/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, neologism) being accompanied or surrounded by many girls


嫂

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) Alternative form of soc


尷

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kreːm): semantic 尢 + phonetic 監 (OC *kraːm, *kraːms).

Han compound

(Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism) Short for 尷尬.


場

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'aŋ): semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 昜 (OC *laŋ).
Etymology not certain; perhaps related to Tibetan ར་བ (ra ba, “enclosure; fence; wall; yard”) and 宁 (OC *da, *daʔ, “space between the door and the entrance screen”) (Schuessler, 2007).

och-l

死場／死场 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― sei² coeng⁴ [Jyutping] ― shopping centre with little customers

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Short for 商場／商场 (“mall; shopping centre”).


stone

嘩其實你哋係醉咗定Stone咗？

2014, 于日辰（小姓奴）, 殘忍的偷戀 Unconditional Love:

(Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism) stoned; high on drugs, especially cannabis


屈

Characters in the same phonetic series (出) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Originally 𡲶. Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *klud, *kʰlud): phonetic 出 (OC *kʰljuds, *kʰljud) + semantic 尾 (“tail”). 尾 became 尸 in clerical script.


少

Pictogram (象形) – four dots, perhaps three grains of sand (see 沙), to indicate "a few, a little". Phonetically borrowed from 小 (OC *smewʔ, “small”), which is depicted by three dots.
Unrelated to 步 (and hence 歲), in which the lower component is the stylization of a foot.

GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

少癲／少癫 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― siu² din¹ [Jyutping] ― somewhat crazy

Alternative form: 小 (siu²)

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, neologism) slightly; somewhat


宿

In the oracle bone script, an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 人 (“person”) + [Term?] (“bamboo mat”) – a person resting on a mat. Sometimes a house (宀) was added.
Later the pictogram of the bamboo mat became 㐁 or 𠀬, and eventually came to be written 百.
Contrast 寒.
; “To stay overnight; lodge > night; mansion of the zodiac [i.e. the Sun's lodging stations]”

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) Short for 宿舍 (“dormitory”).


帽

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (帽):
* → Japanese: 帽(ぼう) (bō)
* → Vietnamese: mạo (帽)

→ Bouyei: maauh

→? Lao: ໝວກ (mūak)

desc

→? Proto-Mon-Khmer: *muuk ~ muək (“hat”)

→? Thai: หมวก (mùuak)

→ Vietnamese: mũ

→ Zhuang: mauh

/ᵐbau³²⁻³²⁵/

/ᵐbau³²⁻³²⁵/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *muːɡs): semantic 巾 (“cloth”) + phonetic 冒 (OC *muːɡs, *mɯːɡ).
Wanderwort of Southeastern and Eastern Asia, thus its origin is disputed.
Possibly from Sino-Tibetan. It has been compared to Tibetan རྨོག (rmog, “helmet”) (Starostin; Sagart, 2017) and Rgyalrongic forms for “mushroom” (cf. Breton tog-touseg, literally “frog hat”), such as Japhug tɤjmɤɣ (Zhang, Jacques and Lai, 2019).
Alternatively, Schuessler (2007) suggests an Austroasiatic derivation since this is a relatively late word and Shuowen defines 冃 (an ancient form of 帽) as “head cover” of the Southern indigenous people, which may allude to a southern origin. Compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *muuk ~ muək (“hat”), whence Mon ဒမှော် (həmok, “wide hat”) and Khmer មួក (muək), which he also connects to 鍪 (OC *mu, “metal cap; helmet”). Also compare Thai หมวก (mùuak), which Schuessler (2007) derives from the Khmer word. However, Alves (2018) considers it likely for the Proto-Mon-Khmer word to be a loan from Chinese, and Alves (2020) also suggests that the Tai forms spread from Chinese.
Often considered to be related to 冒 (OC *muːɡs, “to cover”) (Wang, 1982; Starostin), though Schuessler (2007) thinks that it may be reinterpreted as such based on parallel development of 被 (OC *bralʔ, *brals, “to cover; bedding”).

och-l

(Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism, slang) Short for 戴綠帽／戴绿帽 (“to cuckold”).


巧

Pronunciation borrowed from Mandarin 好 (hǎo), tone from Cantonese 好 (hou2).

巧威威

(Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism, leetspeak or sarcastic) Alternative form of 好


座

→ Vietnamese: toà

/t͡sɔː²²⁻³⁵/

/t͡sɔː²²⁻³⁵/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *zoːls): semantic 广 (“house on cliff”) + phonetic 坐 (OC *zoːlʔ, *zoːls).
Exopassive of 坐 (OC *zoːlʔ, “to sit; to be situated”), literally "that which is sat on" (Schuessler, 2007).

Han compound

十八樓C座

十八楼C座

(Hong Kong Cantonese) room number in a residential building


慄

STEDT compared this to Tibetan བྲེད་པ་ (bred pa, “to be alarmed, scared”). If the relation is to be established, then this term is derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ray-t (“fear”).
Hong Kong Cantonese “to be scared” is borrowed from Taishanese 慄／栗 (nut⁵).

cog

alt. forms: 劣 (Hong Kong Cantonese)

慄到唔敢喐

栗到唔敢喐

(originally Taishanese, now also Hong Kong Cantonese) to be scared


挽

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, leetspeak) Alternative form of 玩 (waan4-2)


掟

掟上網

掟上网

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to send digital media wirelessly (such as via the Internet)


揮

Characters in the same phonetic series (軍) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰul): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 軍 (OC *kun).
Compare perhaps Burmese ရွေ့ (rwe., “to move”).


意

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (意):
* → Japanese: 意(い) (i)
* → Korean: 의(意) (ui)
* → Vietnamese: ý (意)

Modern form is a compound of 音 and 心 (“heart”). However, the top component is etymologically unrelated to 音. According to Lin (1920), 𠶷 (a compound of 言 and 中) found in bronze inscriptions is the same character as 意 (yì).

乾炒叉燒意／干炒叉烧意 [Cantonese] ― gon¹ caau² caa¹ siu¹ ji³ [Jyutping] ― fried spaghetti with barbecue pork

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Short for 意粉 (ji3 fan2, “spaghetti”).


摺

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/l-t(y)ap (“fold, layer, pile up, repeat”). Cognate with 疊 (OC *l'ɯːb, “to fold, accumulate”); see there for more (STEDT).

inh

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to stay at a place

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) unsocialized; uninteracting towards others


happy

/hɛːp̚⁵ pʰiː³⁵/

/hɛːp̚⁵ pʰiː³⁵/

(by extension in Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism elsewhere, euphemistic) to party; to make love


happy

/hɛːp̚⁵ pʰiː³⁵/

/hɛːp̚⁵ pʰiː³⁵/


happy

/hɛːp̚⁵ pʰiː³⁵/

/hɛːp̚⁵ pʰiː³⁵/


happy

/hɛːp̚⁵ pʰiː²¹/

/hɛːp̚⁵ pʰiː²¹/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) happy; delightful; delighted


happy

/hɛːp̚⁵ pʰiː²¹/

/hɛːp̚⁵ pʰiː²¹/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) happily; delightfully; delightedly


強

/t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ³⁵/

/t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ³⁵/

Zhengzhang (2003): Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡaŋ, *ɡaŋʔ): phonetic 彊 (OC *kaŋs, *ɡaŋ, *ɡaŋʔ) + semantic 虫 (“insect”).
Shuowen: Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡaŋ, *ɡaŋʔ): phonetic 弘 (OC *ɡʷɯːŋ) + semantic 虫 (“insect”).
The character 強 likely originally referred to the rice weevil, an insect that attacks rice and several other crops, before being phonetically borrowed to represent the sense of "strong; powerful", which was previously represented by the character 彊 (OC *kaŋs, *ɡaŋ, *ɡaŋʔ).
(egg): Typo of 蛋; they have the same keystrokes in Simplified Cangjie.

Han compound

强
强
*彊
强
强
*彊
强
强
犟
勥
*彊

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, sometimes deliberate) Misspelling of 蛋 (dàn).


批

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pʰiː): semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 比 (OC *piʔ, *pis, *bi, *bis, *biɡ).
; “to pare”
; “pie”
; “pipe”
; “vulva; cunt”

Han compound

死氣批／死气批 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― sei² hei³ pai¹ [Jyutping]


旗

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (旗):
* → Japanese: 旗(き) (ki)
* → Korean: 기(旗) (gi)

→ Vietnamese: cờ

→ Zhuang: geiz

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡɯ): semantic 㫃 (“flag”) + phonetic 其 (OC *kɯ, *ɡɯ).

Han compound

(Hong Kong Cantonese taxi driver jargon) fare; customer; trip (Classifier: 支 c)


枉

Related to 紆 (OC) ~ 迂 (OC *qʷa), 匡 (OC *kʰʷaŋ), 腕 (OC *qoːns), 冤 (OC *qon) (Schuessler, 2007). See 迂 (yū) for further etymology.

Alternative form: 汪

(Hong Kong Cantonese, triad slang) three


朱

→ English: Chu, Zhu

Ideogram (指事): a tree (木) with its center highlighted with an extra dot-like stroke, accentuating the tree's core; contrast 本, 末.
Compare Proto-Vietic *tɔh (“red”) (Schuessler, 2007). 赭 (OC *tjaːʔ, “red paint”) may be related.


朱

熱朱／热朱 [Cantonese] ― jit⁶ zyu¹ [Jyutping] ― hot chocolate


拉

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ruːb): semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 立 (OC *rɯb).

Han compound

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Short for 拉把 (“library”).


棚

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ, *brɯːŋ): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 朋 (OC *bɯːŋ)


曲

Ideogram (指事) – a bent object. Also simplified from 麴 via the variant character 麯／曲.
Unrelated to 曹 and 典.
; used in names of rivers
; to bend, bent, curved, crooked, wrong
; mocking; ridiculing

(Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly Internet slang) mocking; ridiculing; /s


更

Originally an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意), showing two chariots (丙). Later 攴 was added and a 丙 omitted to create the form seen in the Shuowen Jiezi (㪅), a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kraːŋ, *kraːŋs): abbreviated phonetic 𰀒 (, “two chariots”) + semantic 攴 (“hand holding a whip; action”). The remaining 丙 eventually corrupted into a shape similar to 雨.

Han compound

[There are] three shifts each day, eight hours each shift.

jat¹ jat⁶ saam¹ gaang¹, mui⁵ gaang¹ baat³ go³ zung¹.

一日三更，每更八個鐘。

一日三更，每更八个钟。

(Hong Kong Cantonese, by extension) shift; work shift; work period


柱

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *toʔ, *doʔ): semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 主 (OC *tjoʔ).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *duːŋ (“post; column”) (STEDT). Cognate with 拄 (OC *toʔ, “to support”), as well as Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuŋ-I, *tun-II (“to erect; post; vertical”), Proto-Central Naga *tuŋ (“stem; trunk; post; tree”) (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).

inh

2017 January 21, “柏傲灣400伙即日沽清”, in 文匯報 [Wen Wei Po], page A06:

zok⁶ jat⁶ teoi¹ sau⁶ daan¹ wai⁶⁻² zung¹, ji⁶ bi¹ zo⁶ dik¹ ei¹, si¹ kap⁶ ef¹ sat¹ “saam¹ cyu⁵” dik¹ jat¹ fong⁴⁻² kap⁶ loeng⁵ fong⁴⁻² gaan³ gaak³ seot¹ sin¹ gu¹ cing¹.

昨日推售單位中，2B座的A、C及F室「三柱」的一房及兩房間隔率先沽清。

昨日推售单位中，2B座的A、C及F室「三柱」的一房及两房间隔率先沽清。

(Hong Kong Cantonese) flats of the same layout on different floors


汁

Unclear. Schuessler (2007) lists several proposals:
* related to Tibetan ཆབ (chab, “water”) (Coblin, 1986)), yet initial velars do not palatize in Written Tibetan;
* related to Jingpho [script needed] (məgyep, “liquor”);
* related to Burmese ချိပ် (hkyip, “lac”), Proto-Loloish *C-gripᴸ (“lac; pine”) (Peiros & Starostin, 1996, STEDT), if so from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kryap (“bug, ant, cochineal, lac insect”) (whence also 蠟 (OC *raːb) "wax");
Likely related to 湆 (OC *kʰrɯb) & 協 (OC *ɦleːb) (汁 (OC *kjub)'s dialectal synonym attested east of Tong Pass); yet not to 瀋 (OC *l̥ʰjɯmʔ) (Schuessler, 2007).
; Hong Kong Cantonese "source"

inh

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang) source of posted material


毒

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (毒):
* → Japanese: 毒(どく) (doku)
* → Korean: 독(毒) (dok)
* → Vietnamese: độc (毒)

→ Vietnamese: thuốc (“drug”)

desc

→ Zhuang: doeg (“poison; to poison; evil”)

Pictogram (象形) - a woman wearing a feathered ornament - original form of 纛 (OC *duːɡs, *duːɡ). If this is the correct interpretation, see also 每.
Alternatively, Li Xueqin (2012) proposes it is a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'uːɡ): semantic 屮 (“vegetation”) + phonetic 毐 (OC *ʔmɯː, *ʔmɯːʔ), meaning "a type of poisonous plant."
; “poison”
; “to poison” (Pronunciation 2)
; “nerdy”

Han compound

𭖪
𡴛
𡹆
𥲮
𦸕
𫦚
𧉉
𤯟
杜
餖
透
𭖪
踱
喥


炒

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (炒):
* → Japanese: 炒(しょう) (shō); 炒(そう) (sō)
* → Korean: 초(炒) (cho)
* → Vietnamese: xào (炒)

/ʈ͡ʂʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

/t͡sʰaːu̯³⁵/

/ʈ͡ʂʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

/t͡sʰaːu̯³⁵/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰroːʔ): semantic 火 + phonetic 少 (OC *hmjewʔ, *hmjews).

Han compound

煼
𩱦
㷅
焣
𩱈
𢐨
𤑵
𤌽
𤌉
𤊛
㶤
𤊝

炒車／炒车 [Cantonese] ― caau² ce¹ [Jyutping]

炒電梯／炒电梯 [Cantonese] ― caau² din⁶ tai¹ [Jyutping]

(Hong Kong Cantonese, of machines) to crash

ngo⁵ caau² zo² kam⁴ jat⁶ fan⁶ sou³ hok⁶ haau² si⁵.

我炒咗琴日份數學考試。

我炒咗琴日份数学考试。

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to perform badly (in a test or exam)

(Hong Kong Cantonese, transitive, in matches or competitions) to win (someone)


猁

/lei̯²² lei̯²² kɐu̯³⁵/

/lei̯²² lei̯²² kɐu̯³⁵/

Derived from 利狗 (“derogatory term for Liverpool fans”, literally “Liverpool Dogs”), where 利 is the shortened form of 利物浦 (“Liverpool FC”).

(Hong Kong Cantonese, soccer, neologism, Internet slang, humorous or derogatory) Liverpool F.C. or its supporters


獌

/maːn²² maːn²² kɐu̯³⁵/

/maːn²² maːn²² kɐu̯³⁵/

Derived from 曼狗 (maan⁶ gau², “derogatory term for Manchester United fans”, literally “Manchester United Dogs”), where 曼 is the shortened form of 曼聯／曼联 (“Manchester United FC”).

(Hong Kong Cantonese, soccer, neologism, Internet slang, humorous or derogatory) Manchester United F.C. or its supporters


group

→ Gulf Arabic: قروب (grūp)

→ Japanese: グループ (gurūpu)

→ Korean: 그룹 (geurup)

→ Tongan: kulupu

From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”), from Vulgar Latin *cruppo, Renaissance Latin grupus, from Frankish *krupp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, round mass, body, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”). In the sense of group theory coined (in French, as groupe) by Évariste Galois.
Cognate with German Kropf (“crop, craw, bunch”); Old English cropp, croppa (“cluster, bunch, sprout, flower, berry, ear of corn, crop”) (whence English crop); Dutch krop (“craw”), Icelandic kroppr (“hump, bunch”). Doublet of crop and croup.

der

Throughout this section, we shall assume the existence of finitely presented groups with unsolvable word problem.

1977, Roger C. Lyndon, Paul E. Schupp, Combinatorial Group Theory, Springer, page 192:

In this chapter we give some examples of Fuchsian groups. The most interesting and important ones are the so-called "arithmetic" Fuchsian groups, i.e., discrete subgroups of PSL(2,R) obtained by some "arithmetic" operations. One such construction we have already seen: if we choose all matrices of SL(2,R) with integer coefficients, then the corresponding elements of PSL(2,R) form the modular group PSL(2,Z).

1992, Svetlana Katok, Fuchsian Groups, University of Chicago Press, page 112:

2007, Zhong-Qi Ma, Group Theory for Physicists, World Scientific, page 277,
In Chap. 4 the fundamental concepts on Lie groups have been introduced through the SO(3) group and its covering group SU(2).

(group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.


波

八號波

八号波

(Hong Kong Cantonese) typhoon signal (issued by the Hong Kong Observatory)

波大冇腦

波大冇脑

(chiefly Hong Kong Cantonese, figurative) boob; breast (Classifier: 對／对 c; 個／个 c)

(Hong Kong Cantonese) ball; dance party (Classifier: 個／个 c)

(Hong Kong Cantonese, figuratively, always with the classifier) responsibility (Classifier: 個／个 c)


燈

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tɯːŋ): semantic 火 (“candlelight”) + phonetic 登 (OC *tɯːŋ).
; to jinx

Han compound

(Hong Kong Cantonese) traffic lights (Classifier: 支 c)

(Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism) to jinx; to make incorrect predictions

(Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism) tending to jinx


清

Rebracketing of the reading of Ching, which is a nonstandard romanisation of 師兄／师兄 (si¹ hing¹).

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, leetspeak) Synonym of 師兄／师兄 (si¹ hing¹)


game

From English game (Cheung, 2007, page 220).

(Hong Kong Cantonese) game (especially video games and online games) (Classifier: 隻／只 c)


牙

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (牙):
* → Japanese: 牙(げ) (ge); 牙(が) (ga)
* → Korean: 아(牙) (a)
* → Vietnamese: nha (牙)

→ Proto-Tai: *ŋaːᴬ (“tusk, ivory”)

Thai: งา (ngaa)

Lao: ງາ (ngā)

Lü: ᦇᦱ (ngaa)

Shan: ငႃး (ngáa)

Ahom: 𑜂𑜠 (ṅa)

→ Proto-Vietic: *ŋaː (“ivory”)

Vietnamese: ngà

The pictogram of a pair of elephant tusks. According to Xu Shen, this pictogram was used to indicate human molars but not front teeth/incisors (齒).
Norman and Mei (1976) propose that this was a substrate loan; cf. Proto-Vietic *ŋaː (“ivory”) (Vietnamese ngà), Proto-Tai *ŋaːᴬ (“tusk; ivory”) (Thai งา (ngaa)). Pulleyblank (1983) disagrees with their hypothesis and considers Old Chinese to be the donor of this Wanderwort instead.
STEDT provisionally sets up Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋja (“tusk; tooth”), comparing it to Mizo ngho (“tusk; fang”), Manipuri ꯌꯥ (yaa, “tooth”), Mru [script needed] (hngou, “tooth”), Pa'o Karen [script needed] (tə́ʔ ŋà, “tooth”).
; Hong Kong Cantonese neologism prefix

cog

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, leetspeak, neologism) Prefix used in front of the surname or last character of someone’s given name to express familiarity or friendliness.


牛

Wutunhua: nek

/n̠ʲi̯əu̯¹³/

/n̠ʲi̯əu̯¹³/

Pictogram (象形) of a bull's head.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋwa.
;"awesome"

傲人

nowadays especially of breasts, body curve

細漢偷挽匏，大漢偷牽牛／细汉偷挽匏，大汉偷牵牛

sè-hàn thau bán pû, tōa-hàn thau khan gû

(Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) Short for 火牛 (“transformer”). (Classifier: 隻／只 c)


禾

Pronunciation borrowed from Mandarin 我 (wǒ), tone from Cantonese 我 (ngo5).

(Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism, leetspeak or sarcastic) I; me; my


link

(Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) hyperlink (Classifier: 條／条 c)


link

(Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) to link; to add a hyperlink


科

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Alternative form of fol (fo¹, “to follow”).


search

/sœː⁵⁵ t͡sʰyː²¹/

/sœː⁵⁵ t͡sʰyː²¹/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to search on the Internet; to google


肥

Shortened from 肥佬 (fei4 lou2), from English fail.

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to fail (someone) in a test


腎

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡjinʔ): phonetic 臤 (OC *kʰaːn, *kʰriːn, *ɡiːn, *kʰins) + semantic ⺼ (“meat; flesh”) – a body part, the kidneys.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-k(j)un (“kidney”). Cognate with Burmese ကုန်း (kun:, “back”).

Han compound

腎者之石／肾者之石 [Cantonese] ― san⁵ ze² zi¹ sek⁶ [Jyutping] ― kidney stone

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of 賢／贤 (xián).


腦

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (腦):
* → Japanese: 脳(のう) (nō)
* → Korean: 뇌(腦) (noe)
* → Vietnamese: não (腦)

Originally 匘, an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 匕 + 巛 (“hair”) + 囟 (“head; fontanel”). 匕 was later replaced with 肉 (“flesh”).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəw-k. Cognate with Burmese ဦးနှောက် (u:hnauk), Nuosu ꀑꆊ (o not, “brain”), Jingpho nu' (“brain”), Drung unu (“brain; mind”), Japhug tɯrnoʁ, S'gaw Karen ခိၣ်နူာ် (khoh̀noọ, “brain”).

cog

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Short for 電腦／电脑 (din⁶ nou⁵, “computer”). (Classifier: 部 c)


膠

→ Burmese: ကော် (kau)

→ Khmer: កាវ (kaaw)

→ Lao: ກາວ (kāo)

→ Thai: กาว (gaao)

→ Vietnamese: keo (non-Sino-Vietnamese)

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *krɯːw, *krɯːws, *kʰrɯːw): semantic ⺼ (“meat; flesh”) + phonetic 翏 (OC *ɡ·rɯːw, *ɡ·rɯws).


莊

/ʈ͡ʂu̯ɑ̃ɻ⁵⁵/

/t͡szʷæ̃³³⁴/

/ʈ͡ʂu̯ɑ̃ɻ⁵⁵/

/t͡szʷæ̃³³⁴/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsraŋ): semantic 艸 + phonetic 壯 (OC *ʔsraŋs).

Han compound

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) student association; student union (Classifier: 支 c)


蒲

From the vernacular reading of 浮 (pou4).

蒲頭

蒲头

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to party; to leisure


kick

Romanisation of 撠 (kik¹, “to stumble; to trip over”), influenced by spelling of English kick. Not related to English kick semantically.

yue-etym-rom

For quotations using this term, see Citations:kick.

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Alternative form of 撠 (kik¹, “to stumble; to trip over”)


蛔

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, derogatory) Muslim


船

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (船):
* → Japanese: 船(ぜん) (zen); 船(せん) (sen)
* → Korean: 선(船) (seon)
* → Vietnamese: thuyền (船)

→ Manchu: ᠴᡠᠸᠠᠨ (cuwan)

→ Yukjin Korean: 촨 (chwan)

/ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än³⁵/

/ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än³⁵/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɦljon): semantic 舟 (“boat”) + phonetic 㕣 (OC *lon).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-lawŋ (“boat”). Compare Burmese လောင်း (laung:, “long and narrow boat”), and Mizo lawng (“boat or ship”).
Sagart (1999) interprets Old Chinese 船 (OC *ɦljon) as a nominal derivate of the verb 沿 (OC *lon, “to go downstream a river”). The Fangyan states that this word was commonly used in western China, but, by Han times, it had completely displaced the earlier 舟 (OC *tjɯw), used in central and eastern China.
Alternatively, the Proto-Sino-Tibetan root could be a loan from Proto-Mon-Khmer *d₂lu(u)ŋ ~ *d₂l(u)əŋ (“boat”), whence Mon ဂၠုၚ် (klɜ̀ŋ, “canoe, small boat”), perhaps a derivate of Proto-Mon-Khmer *luŋh ~ *luuŋh ~ *ləŋh (“to hollow, excavate, bore”), see Khmer លុង (lung, “to dig a hole”) and Vietnamese trũng (“concave”) (Sidwell, 2006; Schuessler, 2007).

cog

攞船／𫽋船 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― lo² syun⁴ [Jyutping] ― to receive scholarship

(Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly university slang) scholarship


蝻

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, derogatory) South Asian


腸

/t͡sʰœːŋ²¹⁻³⁵/

/t͡sʰœːŋ²¹⁻³⁵/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'aŋ): semantic 肉 (“body”) + phonetic 昜 (OC *laŋ).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jaŋ ~ m-jaŋ (“large intestine”), whence Helambu Tibetan ནང་ཇུལ (nang jul, “viscera; guts; entrails”) and Chepang योङ्क्लीः (yoŋ-kliʔ, “intestine”) (STEDT).
Schuessler (2007) suggests it is also cognate with Tibetan ལོང་ཀ (long ka, “intestines; entrails; guts”).
; Hong Kong Cantonese "penis"

cog

(Hong Kong Cantonese, slang) penis (Classifier: 條／条 c)


CD-ROM

/siː⁵⁵ tiː⁵⁵ ɹɔːm⁵⁵/

From English CD-ROM, in reference to the fact both are read-only.

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang) lurker


街

→ Bouyei: gaail

→ White Hmong: kev

→ Zhuang: gai

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kreː, *kreː): semantic 行 + phonetic 圭 (OC *kʷeː).
Originally, the phonetic component is not related to the concept of earth (土) since in its original form it represents a pair of ritual axes perhaps made of jade 士. Hence, the link to the concept of earth in this character and 厓 either comes from folk etymology or its appearence in the Small Seal script.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/g-wa (“village”) (STEDT); see 里 (OC *rɯʔ, “village”) for more.

Han compound

to win with a distance of nine street blocks

贏九條街

赢九条街

(Hong Kong Cantonese, figuratively) distance; margin (Classifier: 條／条 c)

街外人 [Cantonese] ― gaai¹ ngoi⁶ jan⁴ [Jyutping] ― outsider

街症 [Cantonese] ― gaai¹ zing³ [Jyutping] ― outpatient clinic

(Hong Kong Cantonese) outside; the public


菜

/t͡sʰɔːi̯³³/

/t͡sʰɔːi̯³³/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰɯːs): semantic 艹 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 采 (OC *sʰɯːʔ).
From 采 (OC *sʰɯːʔ, “to gather; to pluck”) + nominalizing *-s, literally “what is gathered or plucked” (Sagart, 1999; Schuessler, 2007). See 采 for more.

冬菜

preserved dried cabbage or mustard greens; winter vegetable

(Hong Kong Cantonese, slang, derogatory) girlfriend (Classifier: 條／条 c; 樖 c)


賬

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *taŋs): semantic 貝 (“shell”) + phonetic 長 (OC *taŋʔ, *daŋ, *daŋs).

Han compound

細賬／细账 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― sai³ zoeng³ [Jyutping] ― alternate acount


cop

Also, in a fashion similar to recycled paper, [they] polished or directly copied others' derivative work such as “to speak of this” [a meme] or images by 9gag, creating “twice derivative work”.

waan⁴ jau⁵, zoeng⁶ zoi³ zou⁶ zi² bun¹, zik⁶ zip³ zoeng¹ “gong² ni¹ di¹”, gau² gek¹ tou⁴ dang², bit⁶ jan⁴ dik¹ ji⁶ ci³ cong³ zok³ gaa¹ gung¹ waak⁶ “ziu³ kop¹”, zoi³ zou⁶ sing⁴ “saam¹ ci³ cong³ zok³”.

還有，像再造紙般，直接將「講呢d」、9gag圖等，別人的二次創作加工或「照cop」，再造成「三次創作」。

还有，像再造纸般，直接将「讲呢d」、9gag图等，别人的二次创作加工或「照cop」，再造成「三次创作」。

2022 January 14, “COLLAR新歌驚現亞視《百萬富翁》廠景 網民好奇問：原來仲未拆”, in 新假期:

Netizens said outspokenly: “There's a small section in the chorus that simply directly copies River by AKB48”.

mong⁵ man⁴ zik⁶ jin⁴: “fu³ go¹ jau⁵ jat¹ dyun⁶ zai² zik⁶ tau⁴ ziu³ kop¹ ei¹ kei¹ bi¹ sau² river”.

網民直言：「副歌有一段仔直頭照cop akb首river」。

网民直言：「副歌有一段仔直头照cop akb首river」。

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to copy; to plagiarise


FF

/ɛːf⁵⁵ ɛːf⁵⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, originally Internet slang) to fantasize


FF

/ɛːf⁵⁵ ɛːf⁵⁵/

2017 August 11, 羅旦, “傻根稱「獨」是病毒 「泛民」粘住定「死清光」”, in 《文匯報》 [Wen Wei Po], page A14:

Everyone can go ahead and laugh at him for his unlimited imagination. "He forgot to take his meds again."

daai⁶ gaa¹ mou⁴ fong⁴ siu³ haa⁵ keoi⁵ FF mou⁴ gik⁶ haan⁶, “jau⁶ m⁴ gei³ dak¹ sik⁶ joek⁶.”

大家無妨笑吓佢FF無極限，「又唔記得食藥。」

大家无妨笑吓佢FF无极限，「又唔记得食药。」

(Hong Kong Cantonese, originally Internet slang) fantasy; imagination


軚

三手軚／三手𮷗 [Cantonese] ― saam¹ sau² taai⁵ [Jyutping] ― three-point turn

(Hong Kong Cantonese) turning around a car involving multiple forward and backward turns (Classifier: 手 c)


ham

2016 August 22, 郭富城 [Aaron Kwok], quotee, “隨時有驚喜！郭富城爆智能舞台未玩盡”, in 東網 [on.cc]:

zoi³ gwo³ 26 zau¹ nin⁴, hou² waa⁶ m⁴ hou² teng¹, ho² nang⁴ ngo⁵ dou¹ ‘hem¹’ zo², ni¹ gei² nin⁴ hou² do¹ zung⁶ jiu³ ge³ jan⁴ waak⁶ ze² jin² coeng³ wui⁶⁻² ge³ pang⁴ jau⁵ lei⁴ hoi¹ zo², ngo⁵ zung⁶ ho² ji⁵ kei⁵ hai² toi⁴ dou⁶ tung⁴ daai⁶ gaa¹ biu² jin², hai⁶ zik⁶ dak¹ ge³.

再過26周年，好話唔好聽，可能我都『ham』咗，呢幾年好多重要嘅人或者演唱會嘅朋友離開咗，我仲可以企喺台度同大家表演，係值得嘅。

再过26周年，好话唔好听，可能我都『ham』咗，呢几年好多重要嘅人或者演唱会嘅朋友离开咗，我仲可以企喺台度同大家表演，系值得嘅。

(Hong Kong Cantonese, slang, euphemistic) to die

† - euphemistic; ‡ - usually of the elderly; ¤ - humorous; § - derogatory/disrespectful


轆

→ Thai: รอก (rɔ̂ɔk, “pulley”)

(to browse through): probably a semantic extension of “wheel”, via the use of a scroll wheel.

轆IG／辘IG [Cantonese] ― luk¹ aai¹ zi¹ [Jyutping] ― to browse Instagram

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet) to browse through; to scroll through

坐兩轆／坐两辘 [Cantonese] ― co⁵ loeng⁵ luk¹ [Jyutping] ― to do two years time

(Hong Kong Cantonese, slang) Classifier for number of years in prison.


cm

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, text messaging) comment


download

/taːŋ⁵⁵ lou̯⁵⁵/

/taːŋ⁵⁵ lou̯⁵⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) to download


谷

(Hong Kong Cantonese, social media, Internet slang) group (Classifier: 個／个 c)


醬

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (醬):
* → Japanese: 醤(しょう) (shō)
* → Korean: 장(醬) (jang)
* → Vietnamese: tương (醬)

→ Tocharian B: tsyāṅk (“sauce”)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsaŋs): phonetic 將 (OC *ʔsaŋ, *ʔsaŋs) + semantic 酉 (“drink”).
Possibly from 漿 (OC *[ts]aŋ) with *-s suffix (cf. Baxter and Sagart's (2014) reconstruction).

Han compound

奶醬多／奶酱多 [Cantonese] ― naai⁵ zoeng³ do¹ [Jyutping] ― condensed milk and peanut butter toast


con

(Hong Kong Cantonese) contact lens (Classifier: 隻／只 c; 粒 c; 副 c)


con

Clipping of happy corner, from English happy corner.

(Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly school slang) happy corner


con

調查顯示，有七成男生是在不情願的情況下被con的。另外，近四成受訪者表示即使「被con者」反抗，也不會停止con人。

2004, “大學迎新出軌玩Con撞下體”, in 大學線:

Survey has shown that 70% of males are happy cornered involuntarily. Also, nearly 40% of correspondents states that they would not happy cornering people, even when the one who is happy cornered is resisting.

(Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly school slang) to happy corner


con

(Hong Kong Cantonese) concert (Classifier: 場／场 c)


con

(Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly in compounds) contest


con

Clipping of English consultation or English consult.

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) to consult or to question a student society candidate before the election


con

(Hong Kong Cantonese, only in compounds) conference


un

你un唔un呀？

(Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) to understand


鏟

/t͡sʰiɛn⁵⁵⁴/

/t͡sʰiɛn⁵⁵⁴/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sŋ̊ʰreːnʔ, *sŋ̊ʰraːns): semantic 金 + phonetic 產 (OC *sŋreːnʔ).

Han compound

铲
剷
𨪑
𨲨
𩮲
𠚿
𱐙

剷咗個app

铲咗个app

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to delete (data on a computer or other device)


鏝

Combination of the radical 金 (“money”) and short form of 曼城 (“Manchester City F.C.”) to satirize the football club for poaching high-quality players with high prices.

(Hong Kong Cantonese, soccer, neologism, Internet slang, humorous or derogatory) Manchester City F.C.


邊

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (邊):
* → Japanese: 辺(へん) (hen)
* → Korean: 변(邊) (byeon)
* → Vietnamese: biên (邊)

desc

→ Vietnamese: bên (“side; edge; face; beside”)

→ Vietnamese: ven (“shore; bank; side”)

Originally 臱. Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mpeːn): phonetic 臱 (OC *men) + semantic 辶 (“walking;movement”). The semantic component 辵 (now 辶) was added during bronze inscriptions.
Perhaps cognate with 偏 (OC *pʰen, *pʰens, “side; oblique”), 片 (OC *pʰeːns, “partial; one-sided”), 諞 (OC *ben, *brenʔ, *benʔ, “glib-tongued; insincere”) (Schuessler, 2007).
Based on Old Vietnamese data, Gong (2019) proposes the additional preinitial *tə- to the Baxter-Sagart reconstruction.
; “to have hot pot”

och-l

gam¹ jat⁶ gam³ dung³, bat¹ jyu⁴ bin¹ bin¹ keoi⁵ laa¹!

今日咁凍，不如邊邊佢啦！

今日咁冻，不如边边佢啦！

(Hong Kong Cantonese, usually reduplicated, always used with 佢) to have hot pot


call

(chiefly Hong Kong Cantonese) radio call; phone call (Classifier: 個／个 c)

(Hong Kong Cantonese) summoning of people


call

to call a vehicle, especially a taxi or a van

call車

call车

(chiefly Hong Kong Cantonese) to call (with mobile phones, pagers, beepers, etc.)


idea

/aːi̯²² tiː⁵⁵ aː²¹/

/aːi̯²² tiː⁵⁵ aː²¹/


鐳

Borrowed from Malay duit, from Dutch duit.

趁鐳

趁镭

Some people foolishly act like they don't care about money, but in the end money trumps friendship and loyalty

1998, 片頭曲/Opening Theme, 錢不夠用 (Money Not Enough)

yǒu-xiē rén shuō mài kóng lúi kî-si̍t sī ké hàu-tai, yào jiǎng jiāo-qíng ia̍h-sī kóng gī-khì koh sī kóng lúi khah si̍t-chāi

有些人說莫講鐳其實是假孝呆，要講交情抑是講義氣閣是講鐳較實在

有些人说莫讲镭其实是假孝呆，要讲交情抑是讲义气阁是讲镭较实在

(Malaysian Cantonese and Singapore Cantonese, Hakka, Southern Min; Xiamen, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou Hokkien; slang in Hong Kong Cantonese) money


kilo

/kʰiː⁵⁵ lou̯³⁵/

/kʰiː⁵⁵ lou̯³⁵/

From English kilo or clipping of English kilogram.


餐

/tʰan³³⁻³³⁵/

/tʰan³³⁻³³⁵/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰaːn): phonetic 𣦼 () + semantic 食 (“to eat; meal; food”). Its original meaning was "to swallow".
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-dz(j)a-k/n/t/s (“to eat; food; to feed; rice”), whence Tibetan ཟ (za, “to eat”); probably also related to 咀 (OC *ʔsaʔ, *zaʔ, “to chew”) (STEDT; Benedict, 1972; Schuessler, 2007).
Alternatively, it may be compared to Tibetan འཚལ ('tshal, “to eat”), ཚལ་མ (tshal ma, “breakfast”) (Coblin, 1986; Schuessler, 2007; Hill, 2019).

inh

餐蛋麵／餐蛋面 [Cantonese] ― caan¹ daan⁶⁻² min⁶ [Jyutping] ― noodle with luncheon meat and eggs

餐腿蛋治 [Cantonese] ― caan¹ teoi² daan⁶⁻² zi⁶ [Jyutping] ― luncheon meat, ham, and egg sandwich

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Short for 午餐肉 (“luncheon meat”).


鱔

/t͡sʰiɑŋ²⁴²/

/t͡sʰiɑŋ²⁴²/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) resembling advertorial


鶳

/siː⁵⁵ liːu̯¹³/

/siː⁵⁵ liːu̯¹³/

Combined character of 獅鳥／狮鸟 (si¹ niu⁵), which is alternative form of 私了 (si¹ liu⁵) on the Internet.

(Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism) Alternative form of 私了 (si¹ liu⁵, “(of a pro-democracy protester) to extrajudicially punish a perceived opponent (which almost inevitably devolves into violence”)


驚

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, neologism) Alternative form of game. (Classifier: 隻／只 c)


II

/aːi̯⁵⁵ aːi̯⁵⁵/

/aːi̯⁵⁵ aːi̯⁵⁵/

Initialism of English illegal immigrant.

2004 June 13, “「I I」「中華龍」「架勢鱷」盡顯心思 市民爭賜鱷女芳名”, in 《太陽報》:

taa¹ dik¹ jat¹ faan¹ waa⁶, zik¹ si⁴ kap¹ jan⁵ si⁵ man⁴ wui⁴ jing³, zi³ din⁶ din⁶ toi⁴ tai⁴ gung¹ ji³ gin³, jat¹ ming⁴ au¹ sin¹ saang¹ bin⁶ tai⁴ ji⁵, siu² ngok⁶ si⁶ “fei¹ faat³ jap⁶ ging² ze², giu³ taa¹ “aai¹ aai¹” zeoi³ tip³ cit³ bat¹ gwo³”

他的一番話，即時吸引市民回應，致電電台提供意見，一名區先生便提議，小鱷是「非法入境者，叫牠「II」最貼切不過」

他的一番话，即时吸引市民回应，致电电台提供意见，一名区先生便提议，小鳄是「非法入境者，叫它「II」最贴切不过」

2016 September 12, “與人蛇錄口供 出動「三色雪糕」”, in 《大公報》:

“daai⁶ kiu¹” jyu⁵ fei¹ faat³ jap⁶ ging² ze² gaau¹ sau² (illegal immigrant, zuk⁶ cing¹ aai¹ aai¹) ging¹ jim⁶ fung¹ fu³, zung³ jan⁴ bat¹ joek³ ji⁴ tung⁴ jing³ wai⁴, luk⁶ ceoi² ging² gaai³ hau² gung¹ dik¹ gwo³ cing⁴ zeoi³ kwan³ naan⁴.

「大Q」與非法入境者交手（illegal immigrant，俗稱II）經驗豐富，眾人不約而同認為，錄取警誡口供的過程最困難。

「大Q」与非法入境者交手（illegal immigrant，俗称II）经验丰富，众人不约而同认为，录取警诫口供的过程最困难。

2018 February 24, “網民熱話：東龍洲露營遇山賊 牛腩鍋冰鮮鴨齊失蹤”, in 《東網》:

heoi³ dak¹ waan² lou⁶ jing⁴, lei⁵ jing¹ daai³ gau³ sik⁶ mat⁶, ho⁴ gu³ jiu³ tau¹? m⁴ tung¹ jau⁵ aai¹ aai¹?

去得玩露營，理應帶夠食物，何故要偷？唔通有ii？

去得玩露营，理应带够食物，何故要偷？唔通有ii？

2019 April 6, “【啹喀的後裔2】啹喀爸爸的退休生活 任家教會長、辦跑山慈善賽”, in 香港01:

gong² jing¹ zing³ fu² jyu¹ 1980 nin⁴ jan¹ jan⁴ hau² gap¹ zang¹, deoi³ zung¹ gwok³ fei¹ faat³ jap⁶ ging² ze² coi² ceoi² “zik¹ bou⁶ zik¹ gaai²”, ji⁵ hung³ zai³ bun² dei⁶ jan⁴ hau². mui⁵ tin¹ maan⁵ soeng⁶, gou¹ saan¹ siu³ nin⁴ dou¹ wui⁵ sau² zoi⁶ saa¹ tau⁴ gok³, man⁴ gam² dou⁶ dang² dik¹ saan¹ je⁵ gaan¹ “zuk¹ aai¹ aai¹”.

港英政府於1980年因人口急增，對中國非法入境者採取「即捕即解」，以控制本地人口。每天晚上，高山少年都會守在沙頭角、文錦渡等的山野間「捉II」。

港英政府于1980年因人口急增，对中国非法入境者采取「即捕即解」，以控制本地人口。每天晚上，高山少年都会守在沙头角、文锦渡等的山野间「捉II」。


雷

Ancient simplification of 靁, which was a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ruːl): semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 畾 (OC *ruːl).
The Northern Min initial s- may be due to the loss of a pre-initial which might have been a velar considering dialect forms in Henan, Hebei and Shanxi, e.g. Taiyuan Jin 忽雷 (hueh4 lui1) (Schuessler, 2007).
Perhaps from Sino-Tibetan. Compare Mizo râwl (“voice; cry (of an animal); sound”), Tibetan ཁྲོལ (khrol).
;"spoiler"
; "loyalty"

cog

畾
𡈶
𩇓
𤴐
𩂩
𤳳
䨓
𩄣
靁
㗊
𤴑


Nike

/nɐi̯⁵⁵ kʰiː³⁵/

/nɐi̯⁵⁵ kʰiː³⁵/


ac

/ei̯⁵⁵ siː⁵⁵/

/ei̯⁵⁵ siː⁵⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Alternative form of AC


鳳

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (鳳):
* → Japanese: 鳳(ほう) (hō)
* → Korean: 봉(鳳) (bong)
* → Vietnamese: phụng (鳳), phượng (鳳)

→ English: Feng

→ Zhuang: fungh

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bums): phonetic 凡 (OC *bom) + 鳥 (“bird”).
In the oracle bone script, the script of 鳳 (OC *bums) was often phonetically borrowed to represent 風 (OC *plum, *plums, “wind”). Subsequent forms of the script of 風 were also derived from parts of the bronze inscription of 鳳.


psycho

/saːi̯²² kʰɔː⁵⁵/

/saːi̯²² kʰɔː⁵⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) psychology (as a subject)


condom

/kʰɔːn⁵⁵ tɐm²¹/

/kʰɔːn⁵⁵ tɐm²¹/

(neologism, originally Internet slang, figuratively) someone or something easily disposed, due to their worthlessness after use


龜

→ Zhuang: gvi

Characters in the same phonetic series (龜) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形): A drawing of a turtle seen from the side and from above (Bronze inscriptions).
Austroasiatic. Compare Mon ဂွိ (gwi, “soft-shell turtle”), Nyah Kur ทะวี่ʔ (tha wìiʼ, “soft-shell turtle”) (Schuessler, 2007).

cog

龟
亀
𪚧
𪚿
𪚨
𪚦
𬺞
𮯛
𮯜
𮯝
𮯞
𮯟


點

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *teːmʔ): semantic 黑 (“black”) + phonetic 占 (OC *ʔljem, *tjems) – black dots.

Han compound

攰到一個點／攰到一个点 [Cantonese] ― gui⁶ dou³ jat¹ go³ dim² [Jyutping] ― extremely tired (literally, “tired to an extreme”)

(Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism) extreme (Classifier: 個／个 c)


五 (ng5, “five”) and 唔 (m4, “not”) are near homophones.

(Hong Kong Cantonese, leetspeak) alternative form of 唔 (m4, “not”)


(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, neologism) A negation particle


dinner

(Hong Kong Cantonese) dinner (evening meal; formal meal at special occasion) (Classifier: 個／个 c; 餐 c)


lunch

/lɐn⁵⁵ t͡sʰyː²¹/

/lɐn⁵⁵ t͡sʰyː³⁵/

/lɐn⁵⁵ t͡sʰyː²¹/

/lɐn⁵⁵ t͡sʰyː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) lunch (Classifier: 個／个 c; 餐 c)


lunch

/lɐn⁵⁵ t͡sʰyː²¹/

/lɐn⁵⁵ t͡sʰyː³⁵/

/lɐn⁵⁵ t͡sʰyː²¹/

/lɐn⁵⁵ t͡sʰyː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to eat lunch; to have lunch


chop

郵chop

邮chop

(Hong Kong Cantonese) chop (stamp; seal) (Classifier: 個／个 c)


pat

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Alternative form of 坺 (pet6)


pat

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Alternative form of 噼 (pet1)


龍

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (龍):
* → Japanese: 竜(りゅう) (ryū)
* → Korean: 룡>용(龍) (ryong>yong)
* → Vietnamese: long (龍)

→ Indonesian: liong

desctree

→ Proto-Vietic: *-roːŋ
Tho:
Cuoi Cham: ʐoŋ²
Lang Lo: ʐoŋ²
Viet-Muong:
Muong: rồng
Middle Vietnamese: 蠬 (ròu᷄), 𧏵 (ròu᷄)
Vietnamese: rồng

→ Old Turkic: 𐰠𐰇 (lü)

→ Middle Mongol: ᠯᠤᠤ (luu)

Classical Mongolian: ᠯᠤᠤ (luu)

Mongolian: ᠯᠤᠤ／луу (luu)

→ Zhuang: lungz

Old Turkic language
Proto-Hmong-Mien language
Proto-Vietic language
Turkish language
Vietnamese language
White Hmong language

Characters in the same phonetic series (龍) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形) – originally a serpent with prominent whiskered mouth and eyes.
Current form developed in large seal script, with serpent’s body on right (tail at upper right, legs on right), whiskered/fanged mouth at lower left, and eyes/crown at upper left. Left side was subsequently simplified and abstracted, with some influence of 立 and ⺼/月. Note that 竜 existed as a traditional variant dating back to large seal script, and figures a dragon seen face-on, rather than curled around.
Compare 𣎆, which represents a particular kind of dragon.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-bru(ŋ/k) (“dragon; thunder”). Cognate with Tibetan འབྲུག ('brug, “dragon; thunder”). The STEDT database also lists 隆 (OC *ɡ·ruːŋ, “thunder; sound of thunder”) and 雹 (OC *bruːɡ, “hail”) as cognates. Also compare 靐 (OC *brɯŋs, “sound of thunder”) and 霹靂 (OC *pʰeːɡ reːɡ, “thunder”).
This word is found in many languages of the region. Compare Proto-Hmong-Mien *-roŋ (“dragon”) (White Hmong zaj), Proto-Vietic *-roːŋ (“dragon”) (Vietnamese rồng), Vietnamese thuồng luồng (“serpent-like monster”), Khmer រោង (roong, “year of the dragon”), Thai มะโรง (má-roong, “dragon; year of the dragon”), Lao ມະໂລງ (ma lōng, “year of the dragon”), perhaps also Old Turkic [script needed]|[Term?] (*-lan, suffix denoting a wild, predatory animal) (Turkish aslan (“lion”), kaplan (“tiger”), yılan (“snake”)).

cog-lite

龙
㡣
䮾
䰱
竜
龒
𠉒
𠊋
𢀀
𢄫
𢅛
𥪐
𥪑
𥪖
𥪢
𥫆
𥫈
𦱉
𦱸


promo

(Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial, marketing) promo (promotion; event to increase reach or image of a product or brand)


gym

做gym [Cantonese] ― zou⁶ zim¹ [Jyutping] ― to work out

(Hong Kong Cantonese) gym; gymnasium; fitness centre


wasabi

/waː²² saː⁵⁵ piː²¹/

/waːt̚² saː⁵⁵ piː²¹/

/waː²² saː⁵⁵ piː²¹/

/waːt̚² saː⁵⁵ piː²¹/


cheque

(Hong Kong Cantonese) cheque; check (Classifier: 張／张 c)


check

Minister Chow, please check this for me; see if there are still people across the country who have not paid their taxes yet. I shall recall all of these taxes at once. (The usage of this term in this scenario is considered inappropriate because it was said in a historical drama)

2003, 帝女花 [Perish in the Name of Love], spoken by 崇禎帝 [Chongzhen Emperor] (Moses Chan)

zau¹ hing¹ gaa¹, tung⁴ zam⁶ zoi³ cek¹ haa⁵, tai² haa⁵ gok³ dei⁶ gok³ saang² zung⁶ jau⁵ mou⁵ jan⁴ him³ seoi³, zam⁶ jiu³ zoeng¹ di¹ seoi³ hong⁶ jat¹ ci³ gwo³ zeoi¹ faan¹ saai³ faan¹ lei⁴.

周卿家，同朕再check下，睇下各地各省仲有冇人欠稅，朕要將啲稅項一次過追返晒返嚟。

周卿家，同朕再check下，睇下各地各省仲有冇人欠税，朕要将啲税项一次过追返晒返嚟。


check

alt. forms: cheque


code

揼code [Cantonese] ― dap⁶ kuk¹ [Jyutping] ― to write (computer) code


course

/kʰɔː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

/kʰɔː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

報course／报course [Cantonese] ― bou³ ko¹ si² [Jyutping] ― to apply for a course

(Hong Kong Cantonese) course; learning programme (Classifier: 個／个 c)

(Hong Kong Cantonese) course; programme for treatment


carry

en-verb

carry (third-person singular simple present carries, present participle carrying, simple past and past participle carried)

carries (present singular third-person)
carrying (participle present)
carried (participle past)
carried (past)

borrow

the equivalent reverse procedure in the inverse operation of subtraction

→ Cantonese: carry

From Middle English carrien, from Anglo-Norman carier (modern French charrier); from a derivative of Latin carrus (“four-wheeled baggage wagon”), ultimately of Gaulish origin.

tīhei

on the back but held in place with hands

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails

one can't carry two watermelons under one arm

Nobody looked like they were carrying, other than those who had knives strapped to their belts, although with Alaska's new concealed-carry permit, available to anyone who trundled themselves down to the local police station to take the class, someone in this crowd could have a rocket launcher stuffed into their boot and she'd never know it.

2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 72:

(intransitive) To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.


fo

(Internet slang) Alternative form of fol.


annual

/ɛːn⁵⁵ niːu̯³⁵/

/ɛːn⁵⁵ niːu̯³⁵/


ed

覆ed [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― fuk¹ dat⁴ [Jyutping] ― replied

fol ed [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― fo¹ dat⁴ [Jyutping] ― followed

J ed [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― zei¹ dat⁴ [Jyutping] ― jerked off; wanked off

(Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism) Used to denote an action which has been completed.


ex

(Hong Kong Cantonese) ex (former partner)


argue

/aː⁵⁵ kiːu̯²¹/

/aː⁵⁵ kiːu̯²¹/

From English argue. Doublet of 拗撬 (aau³ giu⁶).

2021, Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese, Recontextualisation and advocacy in the translation zone, Text & Talk, volume 41, number 1, page 14

我唔敢同佢argue架


form

(Hong Kong Cantonese) form (document to be filled) (Classifier: 份 c; 張／张 c)

(Hong Kong Cantonese) a class or year of students (Classifier: 個／个 c)


form

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to form; to take shape

(Hong Kong Cantonese, of people) to form (a group); to assemble


tea

(Hong Kong Cantonese) afternoon tea (Classifier: 個／个 c)


ser

(Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) server (Classifier: 個／个 c; 部 c)


ser

(Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) to search on the Internet; to google


killer

/kʰiːu̯⁵⁵ laː³⁵/

/kʰiːu̯⁵⁵ laː²¹/

/kʰiːu̯⁵⁵ laː³⁵/

/kʰiːu̯⁵⁵ laː²¹/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) professor who is known for often giving students failing grades

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Mafia (party game)


dem

(Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) to demonstrate; to show; to perform


plan

手機plan／手机plan [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― sau² gei¹ plan [Jyutping]

(Hong Kong Cantonese) plan (a subscription to a service) (Classifier: 個／个 c)


double

使多一個double

使多一个double

2014 May 8, 蔡少芬, quotee, “蔡少芬掌財 張晉叫唔好死：搞埋啲投資先”, in on.cc東網, 繽FUN星網:

I've experienced earning multiple times [of the original amount invested] before; I would quit while one is ahead, but Hung Yan once did not leave the market in time.

si³ gwo³ zaan⁶ gei² go³ dap¹ bou⁴, ngo⁵ gin³ hou² zau⁶ wui⁵ sau¹, bat¹ gwo³ hung⁴ jan¹ zau⁶ si³ gwo³ zau² m⁴ cit³.

試過賺幾個double，我見好就會收，不過洪欣就試過走唔切。

试过赚几个double，我见好就会收，不过洪欣就试过走唔切。

(Hong Kong Cantonese) times; -fold (Classifier: 個／个 c)


double

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to double; to increase by 100%


job

接job [Cantonese] ― zip³ zop¹ [Jyutping] ― to take a job

(Hong Kong Cantonese) job (a non-permanent job, from which one is paid); tasks in one's work (Classifier: 單／单 c; 個／个 c)


local

/loʊ̯⁵⁵ kʰoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/loʊ̯⁵⁵ kʰoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

(Hong Kong Cantonese or overseas Mandarin) local (people, as opposed to foreigners)


gel

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, neologism) to predict with confidence


source

/sɔː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

/sɔː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/


copy

/kʰɔːp̚⁵ pʰiː²¹/

/kʰɐp̚⁵ pʰiː²¹/

/kʰɔːp̚⁵ pʰiː²¹/

/kʰɐp̚⁵ pʰiː²¹/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) copy (of a document or a file) (Classifier: 個／个 c; 份 c)


copy

/kʰɔːp̚⁵ pʰiː²¹/

/kʰɐp̚⁵ pʰiː²¹/

/kʰɔːp̚⁵ pʰiː²¹/

/kʰɐp̚⁵ pʰiː²¹/


ren

ren片 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― ren pin³⁻² [Jyutping] ― to render a video

2023, 新聞女王 [The Queen of News], episode 1, spoken by 徐曉薇 (何依婷 [Regina Ho]):

Nelson, finish rendering the animation in half an hour.

Nelson, bun³ go³ zung¹ tau⁴ noi⁶ ren hou² go³ dung⁶ waa⁶⁻².

Nelson，半個鐘頭內ren好個動畫。

Nelson，半个钟头内ren好个动画。

(Hong Kong Cantonese, computer graphics) to render


acting

/ɛːk̚⁵ tʰɪŋ³⁵/

/ɛːk̚⁵ tʰɪŋ³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, intransitive, also rarely transitive) to act up; to temporarily assume duties or authorities of another person when they are unable to do their job


jumpy

/t͡sɐm⁵⁵ pʰiː²¹/

/t͡sɐm⁵⁵ pʰiː²¹/

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from jumpy (“tending to jump”).

pseudo-loan

2017 May 23, “匿名搵工平台 助「被動人才」覓錢途”, in 香港經濟日報:

The new generation is described by bosses as too “jumpy” (frequently switching jobs); the previous generation desires to have a long and stable job, but being too content with the status quo may cost them the opportunity to get a better job.

san¹ sang¹ doi⁶ bei⁶ lou⁵ baan² zi² taai³ “zam¹ pi⁴” (ging¹ soeng⁴ zyun³ gung¹), soeng⁶ jat¹ doi⁶ hot³ mong⁶ daa² coeng⁴ gung¹, kau⁴ wan² ding⁶, daan⁶ gwo³ jyu¹ on¹ jyu¹ jin⁶ zong⁶, waak⁶ co³ sat¹ zyun³ hou² gung¹ dik¹ gei¹ wui⁶.

新生代被老闆指太「jumpy」（經常轉工），上一代渴望打長工、求穩定，但過於安於現狀，或錯失轉好工的機會。

新生代被老板指太「jumpy」（经常转工），上一代渴望打长工、求稳定，但过于安于现状，或错失转好工的机会。

(Hong Kong Cantonese) tending to switch between jobs frequently


jam

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to jam (to play music)


jam

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) to nab; to take without asking


dom

Clipping of English condom. Doublet of condom.


seed

one who provides the files to others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent)

file(s) that are available for download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent)

serial number or code of Japanese adult videos


agent

/ei̯⁵⁵ t͡sɵn³⁵/

/ei̯⁵⁵ t͡sɵn³⁵/


buffet

食buffet


IC

/aːi̯⁵⁵ siː⁵⁵/

/aːi̯⁵⁵ siː⁵⁵/

以前我哋做5、6年才做IC(主管)，但佢哋現在只做3年，而且實習機會很少，中層沒有時間理會佢哋，佢哋仍欠缺經驗，就要揹飛，處理意外、投訴等情況，有人會擔心揹鑊和有人命。

2019 March 16, “【醫護逃亡】護士、專職醫療流失率創8年新高 每16名護士1人離職”, in 香港01:

同為IC的註冊護士Kei也是90後，這是她首次參與遊行和義工活動，因有專業醫療知識，所以便擔當起了分派崗位等工作。

2019 June 27, “民間自發集會急救站 醫者仁心”, in 香港經濟日報:

(Hong Kong Cantonese) person in charge; manager; supervisor


guide

guide住佢做嘢


member

/mɛːm⁵⁵ paː³⁵/

/mɛːm⁵⁵ paː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese gay slang, euphemistic) gay male


OJ

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, neologism) Deliberate misspelling of OK.


up

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Alternative form of 噏 (ngap¹)


printer

/pʰiːn⁵⁵ tʰaː³⁵/

/pʰiːn⁵⁵ tʰaː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) printer (computer hardware); photocopier (Classifier: 部 c)


follow

/fɔː⁵⁵ lou̯²¹/

/fɔː⁵⁵ lou̯²¹/

From English follow or clipping of English follower.

(Hong Kong Cantonese, social media) follower count (Classifier: 個／个 c)


follow

/fɔː⁵⁵ lou̯²¹/

/fɔː⁵⁵ lou̯²¹/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, social media) to follow


racist

/ɹei⁵⁵ sɪs²¹/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, transitive, ditransitive, neologism) to discriminate based on race; to be racist against


even

/iː⁵⁵ fɐn²¹/

/jiː⁵⁵ fɐn²¹/

/iː⁵⁵ fɐn²¹/

/jiː⁵⁵ fɐn²¹/

From English even or even if or even though.

2015, “一千英哩 [A thousand miles away]”performed by 唐寧:

Even你只存在照片裡

Even你只存在照片里

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Taiwanese Mandarin) even though; even if


over

/ou̯⁵⁵ faː²¹/

/ou̯⁵⁵ faː²¹/

From English over. Compare Japanese オーバー (ōbā).

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Taiwanese Mandarin) over the top; extreme; overdone


over

/ou̯⁵⁵ faː²¹/

/ou̯⁵⁵ faː²¹/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Taiwanese Mandarin) to go too far; to exceed; to go overboard


print

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to print with a printer or a photocopier


拜拜

/paɪ̯³⁵ paɪ̯³⁵/

/paɪ̯⁵¹ b̥aɪ̯¹/

/paɪ̯⁵⁵ paɪ̯³⁵/

/paɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ paɪ̯⁵¹/

/paːi̯³³⁻⁵⁵ paːi̯³³/

/pai⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ pai⁴¹/

/bai⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bai⁴¹/

/bai²¹³⁻⁵⁵ bai²¹³/

/pai²¹³⁻⁵⁵ pai²¹³/

/paɪ̯³⁵ paɪ̯³⁵/

/paɪ̯⁵¹ b̥aɪ̯¹/

/paɪ̯⁵⁵ paɪ̯³⁵/

/paɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ paɪ̯⁵¹/

/paːi̯³³⁻⁵⁵ paːi̯³³/

/pai⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ pai⁴¹/

/bai⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bai⁴¹/

/bai²¹³⁻⁵⁵ bai²¹³/

/pai²¹³⁻⁵⁵ pai²¹³/

Chinese phrasebook
 This entry is part of the phrasebook project, which presents criteria for inclusion based on utility, simplicity and commonness.
Phono-semantic matching of English bye-bye.

psm

(Hong Kong Cantonese, euphemistic) to die


under

/ɐn⁵⁵ taː³⁵/

/ɐn⁵⁵ taː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) underwear (Classifier: 條／条 c)


under

/ɐn⁵⁵ taː²¹/

/ɐn⁵⁵ taː²¹/

2019 June 10, 梁智勇 [Leung Chi Yung, Ronald], “2019年6月10日的聆訊紀錄本 [Transcript of the Hearing held on 10 June 2019]”, in 沙田至中環線項目紅磡站擴建部分及其鄰近的建造工程調查委員會 (前稱沙田至中環線項目紅磡站擴建部分的連續牆及月台層板建造工程調查委員會) [Commission of Inquiry into the Construction Works at and near the Hung Hom Station Extension under the Shatin to Central Link Project (formerly Commission of Inquiry into the Diaphragm Wall and Platform Slab Construction Works at the Hung Hom Station Extension under the Shatin to Central Link Project)], page 6:

In my memory, Alan Yeung has never worked under me.

ngo⁵ gei³ jik¹ zung¹, Alan Yeung mou⁵ an¹ daa⁴ gwo³ ngo⁵.

我記憶中，Alan Yeung冇under過我。

我记忆中，Alan Yeung冇under过我。

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to be under; to be subordinate to

(Hong Kong Cantonese, photography) to underexpose


term

(Hong Kong Cantonese) term (word or phrase)


term

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang, passive voice) to have one's study be terminated

university slang; passive voice; university slang; passive voice


band

2014 July 5, “孫耀威冒解約危機為動物發聲”, in 東網, 繽FUN星網:

Eric waan⁴ tau³ lou⁶ zoeng¹ wui⁵ zeon² bei⁶ ceon⁴ wui⁴ jin² coeng³ wui⁶⁻², daan⁶ jyu⁶ zo² zai⁶, “ngo⁵ ji⁵ ging¹ bei⁶ wui⁶⁻² coeng⁴ ben¹ zo² 3 ci³, bat¹ gwo³ hou² ci⁵ tung¹ soeng⁴ dou¹ jiu³ ben¹ 5 ci³ sin¹ sing⁴ si⁶

Eric還透露將會準備巡迴演唱會，但遇阻滯，「我已經被會場band咗3次，不過好似通常都要band5次先成事

Eric还透露将会准备巡回演唱会，但遇阻滞，「我已经被会场band咗3次，不过好似通常都要band5次先成事

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Alternative form of ban


email

/jiː⁵⁵ mɛːu̯⁵⁵/

/jiː⁵⁵ mɛːu̯⁵⁵/

Phono-semantic matching of Mandarin 疫苗 (yìmiáo, “vaccine”).

(Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism, humorous or sarcastic) vaccine; inoculation


taste

/tʰei̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

/tʰei̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) taste (preference of a person)


match

(Hong Kong Cantonese) matching; well-matched


off

/ɔː⁵⁵ fuː²¹/

/ɔː⁵⁵ fuː²¹/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, intransitive) to have day off

(Hong Kong Cantonese, transitive) to switch off; to turn off


keeper

/kʰiːp̚⁵ pʰaː³⁵/

/kʰiːp̚⁵ pʰaː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, slang) nominal owner of a business engaging in vice activities (e.g. a brothel)

(Hong Kong Cantonese, slang) supervisor of a business engaging in vice activities (e.g. a brothel)

(Hong Kong Cantonese, sports) keeper; goalie


super

/suːp̚⁵ pʰaː²¹/

/suːp̚⁵ pʰaː²¹/

From English super. Popularized by Eric Tsang in the Super Trio series.

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Used when a tied or draw situation occurs, or when one is suggesting a draw.


super

/suːp̚⁵ pʰaː³⁵/

/suːp̚⁵ pʰaː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) supervisor (of a student)

(Hong Kong Cantonese) supervisor; manager


fax

/fɛːk̚⁵ siː³⁵/

/fɛːk̚⁵ siː³⁵/

fax機／fax机 [Cantonese] ― fek¹ si² gei¹ [Jyutping] ― fax machine

(Hong Kong Cantonese) fax (document) (Classifier: 張／张 c; 份 c)


fax

/fɛːk̚⁵ siː³⁵/

/fɛːk̚⁵ siː³⁵/


agger

Deliberate misspelling of English agree.

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang) to agree


data

/tei̯⁵⁵ tʰaː²¹/

/tei̯⁵⁵ tʰaː²¹/

Receiving mobile data connection is very slow at this spot.

ni¹ go³ wai⁶⁻² sau¹ dei¹ taa⁴ hou² maan⁶.

呢個位收data好慢。

呢个位收data好慢。

Internet connection using mobile data, i.e. not using Wi-Fi

爆data [Cantonese] ― baau³ dei¹ taa⁴ [Jyutping] ― to exceed the mobile data usage limit

I still have a lot of [my] quota for mobile data usage left for this month.

ngo⁵ gam¹ go³ jyut⁶ zung⁶ jau⁵ hou² do¹ dei¹ taa⁴ zing⁶.

我今個月仲有好多data淨。

我今个月仲有好多data净。

data; mobile data
quota or limit of mobile data usage


kai

2012, 回到三國 [Three Kingdoms RPG], episode 1, spoken by 司馬信 (馬國明):

Humilliating my bro? He's such an idiot.

gat⁶ ngo⁵ di¹ hing¹ dai⁶, keoi⁵ dou¹ kaai¹ kaai¹ dei² ge³.

詰我啲兄弟，佢都kai kai地嘅。

诘我啲兄弟，佢都kai kai地嘅。

(Hong Kong Cantonese, slang, dated) foolish; idiotic


kai

(Hong Kong Cantonese, slang, dated) to be foolish; to act like an idiot


quota

/kʰou̯⁵⁵ tʰaː³⁵/

/kʰou̯⁵⁵ tʰaː²¹/

/kʷʰou̯⁵⁵ tʰaː³⁵/

/kʷʰou̯⁵⁵ tʰaː²¹/

/kʰou̯⁵⁵ tʰaː³⁵/

/kʰou̯⁵⁵ tʰaː²¹/

/kʷʰou̯⁵⁵ tʰaː³⁵/

/kʷʰou̯⁵⁵ tʰaː²¹/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) quota (prescribed maximum amount); limit (Classifier: 個／个 c)


gentleman

/t͡sɛːn⁵⁵ tʰou̯²¹ mɐn²¹/

/t͡sɛːn⁵⁵ tʰou̯²¹ mɐn²¹/


pack

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Classifier for packs (bundles) of objects.


trans

/t͡ʃɹaːns²²/

trans科 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― trans fo¹ [Jyutping]

2021, “無光朔夜裏走過的路”, in 學苑, 二零二一年第一回 [Volume 1, 2021], 《渡》, page 35:

lo⁴ bun² loi⁴ sau¹ duk⁶ tung¹ sik¹ gaau³ juk⁶, ging¹ “trans fo¹ (zik¹ zyun³ wun⁶ zyu² sau¹ fo¹ muk⁶)” hau⁶, gam¹ nin⁴ si⁶ zing³ zing³ hai⁶ jat¹ nin⁴ kap¹ sang¹.

羅本來修讀通識教育，經「trans科（即轉換主修科目）」後，今年是政政系一年級生。

罗本来修读通识教育，经「trans科（即转换主修科目）」后，今年是政政系一年级生。

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) to transfer


Mary

/mɛː⁵⁵ ɹiː²¹/

李曼筠則覺得人形攬枕沒問題，日本很早已有人形攬枕出售，她也不排除會推出人形攬枕。問到她不怕攬枕被人用作其他「用途」嗎？她說：「我諗唔會做D猥瑣嘢刦，問番D男人先知。」白韻琴就指人形攬枕如同吹氣公仔Mary，她笑說：「咁Mary醜樣D。」

2009 July 31, “周秀娜推出人型攬枕尹蓁希擔心男人有歪念”, in Wen Wei Po, archived from the original on 2023-02-13:

2017 December 24, “【Chill人生活】聖誕燈飾、倒數、禮物 邊樣最無謂？”, in Apple Daily, archived from the original on 2021-06-21:

Cherry said she has received an inflatable sex doll before. “The ones you get on Taobao, the head keeps falling off even it has been inflated. I threw it away once I got downstairs and saw a rubbish bin”

Cherry zi² zi⁶ gei² sau¹ gwo³ ceoi¹ hei³ Mary, “tou⁴ bou² deng⁶ go² di¹, ming⁴ ming⁴ go³ tau⁴ ceoi¹ zoeng³ zo² go³ tau⁴ dou¹ hai⁶ gam² dit³ lok⁶ lai⁴, ngo⁵ lok⁶ dou³ lau⁴ haa⁶ gin³ dou³⁻² laap⁶ saap³ tung² zik¹ kaak¹ dam² zo² keoi⁵.”

Cherry指自己收過吹氣Mary，「淘寶訂嗰啲，明明個頭吹脹咗個頭都係咁跌落嚟，我落到樓下見到垃圾桶即刻dump咗佢。」

Cherry指自己收过吹气Mary，「淘宝订嗰啲，明明个头吹胀咗个头都系咁跌落嚟，我落到楼下见到垃圾桶即刻dump咗佢。」

2018 August 12, “布簾後的世界 非一般性商店 I”, in Sing Pao, archived from the original on 2024-10-01, page B08:

In any case, if you think sex shops only have vibrators, dildos, sex dolls and condoms, then one could only say that you're too naive.

mou⁴ leon⁶ jyu⁴ ho⁴, jyu⁴ gwo² jing⁶ wai⁴ sing³ soeng¹ dim³ zi² jau⁵ zan³ daan⁶⁻², gaa² joeng⁴ geoi⁶, Mary wo⁴ bei⁶ jan⁶ tou³, zau⁶ zi² nang⁴ syut³ jat¹ geoi³ “siu³ nin⁴, nei⁵ taai³ nin⁴ heng¹ liu⁵”.

無論如何，如果認為性商店只有震蛋、假陽具、Mary和避孕套，就只能說一句「少年，你太年輕了」。

无论如何，如果认为性商店只有震蛋、假阳具、Mary和避孕套，就只能说一句「少年，你太年轻了」。

想不到現實生活中，亦有位男子愛上私家「Mary」，二人結成正式夫婦，男方仲話「太太」有正當職業，平時會講粗口，果真戲如人生。

2020 November 26, “是枝裕和電影《援膠女郎》變真人真事 哈薩克健身教練娶吹氣公仔”, in 《香港01》:

(Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial, euphemistic) sex doll; love doll (Classifier: 隻／只 c)


Richard

/wiːt̚⁵ t͡sʰɐt̚²¹/

/wiːt̚⁵ t͡sʰɐt̚²¹/

From English Richard, which resembles the pronunciation of 碌柒 (luk¹ cat⁶, “dickhead; idiot”). Probably popularised by The God of Cookery (quoted below).

1996, 食神 [The God of Cookery], spoken by 史提芬周 [Stephen Chow] (周星馳 [Stephen Chow]):

Hey Dick, you look like a dick! You must have received higher education!

ji², wit¹ cat⁴ hou² wit¹ cat⁴ wo³! sau⁶ gwo³ gou¹ dang² gaau³ juk⁶ ding⁶⁻² laa³!

咦，Richard好Richard喎！受過高等教育定啦！

咦，Richard好Richard㖞！受过高等教育定啦！

(Hong Kong Cantonese, minced oath, euphemistic) Synonym of 碌柒


present

/pʰiː²² sɛːn⁵⁵/

/pʰiː²² sɛːn⁵⁵/

From English present or clipping of English presentation.

2024 May 17, 蕭國華, “Ivan返來了”, in 愛·回家之開心速遞, episode 2283, spoken by 龍敢威 [Lung Kam Wai] (羅樂林 [Law Lok-lam]):

pri⁶ sen¹ pri⁶ dou³ jat¹ gau⁶ gau⁶, gaau² dou³ bou⁶ gwan¹ zaap⁶ tyun⁴ deoi³ ngo⁵ dei⁶ mou⁵ saai³ seon³ sam¹, ceoi² siu¹ go³ hap⁶ zok³.

present pre到一嚿嚿，搞到步君集團對我哋冇晒信心，取消個合作。

present pre到一嚿嚿，搞到步君集团对我哋冇晒信心，取消个合作。

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to present; to give a lecture or speech to an audience


present

/pʰiː²² sɛːn⁵⁵/

/pʰiː²² sɛːn⁵⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) presentation (lecture or speech)


coupon

/kʰiːu̯⁵⁵ pʰɔːn²¹/

/kʰiːu̯⁵⁵ pʰɔːn²¹/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) coupon (discount voucher) (Classifier: 張／张 c)


like

/lɐi̯⁵⁵ kʰiː³⁵/

/lɐi̯⁵⁵ kʰiː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, social media) like

(Hong Kong Cantonese, figuratively) appreciation; approval


like

/lɐi̯⁵⁵ kʰiː³⁵/

/lɐi̯⁵⁵ kʰiː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang) to like


camp

(Hong Kong Cantonese) camp (organised event); summer camp


yo

(Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly university slang) outgoing; sociable


part

I don't know how to do any of the questions in this part of the paper.

fan⁶ gyun² ni¹ jat¹ paat¹ ngo⁵ cyun⁴ bou⁶ dou¹ m⁴ sik¹.

份卷呢一part我全部都唔識。

份卷呢一part我全部都唔识。

(Hong Kong Cantonese) part, portion, or component of the whole


part

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Classifier for part, portion, or component of the whole.

2001, Shaolin Soccer, spoken by an entourage of Hung (莫偉文):

There's nothing left that is watch-worthy [in this game of soccer]! Do you need me to later go and have a dance down there [in the soccer field] to entertain the audience?

mou⁵ je⁵ tai² gaa³ laa³! sai² m⁴ sai² ngo⁵ jan¹ lok⁶ heoi³ tiu³ faan¹ paat¹ mou⁵ ding² zyu⁶ aa¹?

冇嘢睇㗎喇！使唔使我一陣落去跳返part舞頂住啊？

冇嘢睇㗎喇！使唔使我一阵落去跳返part舞顶住啊？

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Classifier for the activity of dancing.


part

I have great pleasure in partnering with him in work.

ngo⁵ paat¹ zyu⁶ keoi⁵ zou⁶ je⁵ hou² hoi¹ sam¹.

我part住佢做嘢好開心。

我part住佢做嘢好开心。

2019 October 18, “你願意原諒謝安琪們嗎？”, in Stand News, archived from the original on 2019-10-19:

Since partnering with Juno Mak, there has been nothing out of her [Kay Tse] mouth in support for the Hong Kongers!

paat¹ zo² mak⁶ zeon³ lung⁴, zau⁶ mou⁵ teng¹ gwo³ keoi⁵ wai⁶ hoeng¹ gong² jan⁴ gong² gwo³ jat¹ geoi³ syut³ waa⁶!

Part咗麥浚龍，就冇聽過佢為香港人講過一句說話！

Part咗麦浚龙，就冇听过佢为香港人讲过一句说话！

2023 February 3, “新四十二章｜甘草演員個個身懷絕技搶鏡過主角 莫偉文揸車勁過藤原拓海”, in Sing Tao:

lin⁴ sau² dou⁶ sik¹ jin² hak¹ bong¹ aa³ ze²⁻¹ dik¹ lei⁵ maan⁶ fan¹, jik⁶ wok⁶ mong⁵ man⁴ daai⁶ zaan³ jau⁵ zeon³ bou⁶, gim¹ paat¹ zyu⁶ jat¹ man¹ zou¹ gau³ gaau² siu³

連首度飾演黑幫阿姐的李漫芬，亦獲網民大讚有進步，兼Part住一蚊Joe夠搞笑

连首度饰演黑帮阿姐的李漫芬，亦获网民大赞有进步，兼Part住一蚊Joe够搞笑

I don't want to partner with him in singing this song.

ngo⁵ m⁴ soeng² tung⁴ keoi⁵ paat¹ ni¹ sau² go¹.

我唔想同佢part呢首歌。

2018 May 25, “孖趙勁皓進軍飲食界 陳柏宇擴版圖老婆挺肚支持”, in Sing Pao Daily News:

Us partners have been partnering in [operating these] shops for around seven years now […]

seng⁴ baan¹ paat¹ naa⁴ dou¹ paat¹ zo² gei² gaan¹ pou³ tau⁴⁻² cat¹ nin⁴ zo² jau⁶⁻²

成班partner都part咗幾間舖頭七年左右

成班partner都part咗几间铺头七年左右

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to partner in doing something


contact

/kʰɔːn⁵⁵ tʰɛːk̚²¹/

/kʰɔːn⁵⁵ tʰɛːk̚²¹/


contact

/kʰɔːn⁵⁵ tʰɛːk̚²¹/

/kʰɔːn⁵⁵ tʰɛːk̚²¹/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to contact; to establish communication with


load

load空氣／load空气 [Cantonese] ― lou¹ hung¹ hei³ [Jyutping] ― to have a very poor Internet connection (literally, “to be loading air”)

to receive mobile data; to connect to the Internet


reg

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) to register (a course, a programme, an event, etc.)


Robert

/lɔː⁵⁵ pɐt̚²¹/

/lɔː⁵⁵ pɐt̚²¹/

From English Robert, the meaning “male idiot” first appeared in a TVB drama 《老友鬼鬼》 (1991).

你咪当我Robert㖞！ [Hong Kong Cantonese, simp.]
nei⁵ mai⁵ dong³ ngo⁵ lo¹ bat⁴ wo³! [Jyutping]

你咪當我Robert喎！ [Hong Kong Cantonese, trad.]

心想,你老板,當我Robert啊你! $7280!?

1999 September 2, Henry Chen, “AV Amp 一談”, in hk.rec.audio-visual (Usenet):

我當我 Robert 定 Lulu?

2003 December 10, 我是地球人, “Channel News Asia: Chinese state press all but ignores Bush-Wen meeting”, in hk.politics (Usenet):

2011, 蘇真真, 《真中文──正確中文這樣寫》, Hong Kong: 日閱出版社, →ISBN, page 118:

You want to trick me? You're taking me as an idiot?

soeng² ngaak¹ ngo⁵? nei⁵ dong³ ngo⁵ lo¹ bat⁴ aa⁴?

想呃我？你當我Robert呀？

想呃我？你当我Robert呀？

(Hong Kong Cantonese, slang, dated) male idiot


DIY

tlb

(Taiwanese Mandarin, Hong Kong Cantonese)

/tiː⁵⁵ aːi̯⁵⁵ waːi̯⁵⁵/

/tiː⁵⁵ aːi̯⁵⁵ waːi̯⁵⁵/


mix

(Hong Kong Cantonese) person of mixed race (Classifier: 個／个 c)


yen

Borrowed from English yen, from Japanese 円 (en, “yen, circle”).

(Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) yen; Japanese monetary unit and coin


claim

claim錢

claim钱

claim保險

claim保险

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to claim a sum of money


worse

「醫生幫我搞好晒！應該冇問題卦！不過如果好worse嘅話，惟有用最古老方法喺屋企生囉！咁突發都估計唔到架！」

2012 January 20, 楊千樺 [Miriam Yeung], quotee, “楊千嬅最壞打算屋企生”, in 東方日報:

Doctors will help me settle everything properly. There should be no problem. But if it becomes very bad, then I will have to use the ancient way of giving birth at home. No one knows if this can suddenly happen!

「逼到你伸開隻手就掂到對方（鄰床病人），好worse㗎嘛。」

2020 January 22, 馬仲儀, quotee, “【武漢肺炎大爆發】新病毒與冬季流感同時殺到 前線醫護憂隱性個案爆發”, in 眾新聞:

「如果我變返做勇武，咁情況一定好worse（糟糕），有啲嘢令我睇唔過眼。」

2020 May 31, 阿然, quotee, “【香港的傷痕】一名大學生的四件事——上Gear、被捕、求醫、見官”, in 獨立媒體:

自己當時懷孕近九個月，而疫情嚴重，不方便外出，一想到不能探望、買物資送給在家隔離的媽媽，心裡非常擔憂，睇唔到佢幾辛苦，我又大住肚，嗰日喊咗一個朝早，覺得好無助，世界好worse（糟糕），公立醫院冇晒資源。

2022 May 27, 黃世英, quotee, “【母親節】乳癌化療期再染新冠撐過痛楚 媽媽：只想三代同堂樂聚天倫”, in 香港經濟日報 TOPick:

(Hong Kong Cantonese) bad; terrible (usually used with intensifier 好)


polo

(Hong Kong Cantonese) polo shirt (Classifier: 件 c)


hall

(Hong Kong Cantonese) assembly hall; auditorium

(Hong Kong Cantonese) residence hall; dormitory


firm

(Hong Kong Cantonese) firm; business (Classifier: 間／间 c)


firm

2012, 邵家臻, 黃鈺螢, 感情用事：關於好戲量十年, →ISBN, page 267:

taa¹ zip³ zoek⁶ dou⁶: “jaa⁵ jau⁵ dik¹, taa¹ mun⁴ seoi¹ jiu³ si⁴ gaan³ process, daan⁶ ngo⁵ mun⁴ naa⁵ bin¹ dik¹ sai³ zit³ soeng⁴ soeng⁴ dou¹ mei⁶ foem¹, ngo⁵ ming⁴ baak⁶ taa¹ mun⁴ dik¹ naan⁴ cyu³, daan⁶ ze² jaa⁵ si⁶ mut⁶ jau⁵ baan⁶ faat³ dik¹ si⁶.”

她接著道：「也有的，他們需要時間process，但我們那邊的細節常常都未firm，我明白他們的難處，但這也是沒有辦法的事。」

她接著道：「也有的，他们需要时间process，但我们那边的细节常常都未firm，我明白他们的难处，但这也是没有办法的事。」

ngo⁵ zau⁶ tung⁴ keoi⁵ dei⁶ gong² zo² nei⁵ hai⁶ keoi⁵ dei⁶ zik⁶ suk⁶ soeng⁶ si¹, fei¹ mat⁶ si⁴ dou¹ cim¹ zo² zi² foem¹ zo² gaa³ laa³!

我就同佢哋講咗您係佢哋直屬上司，菲密時都簽咗紙Firm咗㗎喇！

我就同佢哋讲咗您系佢哋直属上司，菲密时都签咗纸Firm咗㗎喇！

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to confirm; to finalize


-s

Borrowed from English -s (“plural suffix”).

bor+

有車s有樓s

有车s有楼s

(Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism, humorous or sarcastic, rare, written only) Used to emphasise that there are multiple instances of the noun


team

(Hong Kong Cantonese) a group of people working in cooperation and involved in the same activity (Classifier: 條／条 c)


team

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Classifier for teams of people.


jot

jot低 [Cantonese] ― zot¹ dai¹ [Jyutping] ― to jot down (something)

jot notes [Cantonese] ― zot¹ nuk¹ si⁶⁻² [Jyutping] ― to jot notes


cam

(Hong Kong Cantonese) camera, especially for filming, computing or surveillance purposes (Classifier: 部 c; 支 c; 隻／只 c; 個／个 c)

GT - General Taiwanese (no particular region identified)


cam

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to monitor or surveil with a camera


champ

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang, of a person) champion; brilliant; superb


foul

(Hong Kong Cantonese, usually sports) to disqualify due to a foul (breach of rules of the game) or a violation

被foul出局 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― bei⁶ fau¹ ceot¹ guk⁶ [Jyutping] ― to be eliminated (in a competition, etc.)

(Hong Kong Cantonese, by extension) to eliminate

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to reject (an idea or a proposal)


notebook

/nʊk̚⁵ pʊk̚⁵/

/lʊk̚⁵ pʊk̚⁵/

/nʊk̚⁵ pʊk̚⁵/

/lʊk̚⁵ pʊk̚⁵/

laptop; notebook computer (Classifier: 部 c)


fake

For quotations using this term, see Citations:fake.

(Hong Kong Cantonese, transitive) to fool; to deceive (such as by presenting fake or ingenuine information)


server

/sœː⁵⁵ faː³⁵/

/sœː⁵⁵ faː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) server (Classifier: 個／个 c; 部 c)


lot

一lot過／一lot过 [Cantonese] ― jat¹ lot¹ gwo³ [Jyutping] ― in a large batch

2015, 湖同, “屋主愛貓一屋腳印 藍澄灣玩黑”, in 《港股策略王》, number 23, 睇樓策略王2手篇, page 36:

To encourage the sales of three-roomers, which are the most difficult to sell, [they] reserved an entire batch of products (flats) for customers who returned after [the sales of] Hemera.

wai⁶ zo² cyun⁴ lik⁶ ceoi¹ guk¹ zeoi³ naan⁴ maai⁶ ge³ saam¹ fong⁴⁻², zau⁶ jyu⁶ lau⁴ zo² seng⁴ lot¹ fo³ bei² zi³ laam⁴ tin¹ wui⁴ lau⁴ haak³ gaan².

為咗全力催谷最難賣嘅三房，就預留咗成LOT貨俾緻藍天回流客揀。

为咗全力催谷最难卖嘅三房，就预留咗成LOT货俾致蓝天回流客拣。

2016, 于日辰, 倫敦金之《潛龍勿用》 [Lon Don Gold 2], Hong Kong: 點子出版, →ISBN, page 193:

ni¹ lot¹ fo³ zou⁶ seng⁴ gam² sat⁶ bei² jan⁴ cou⁴ dou³ lat¹ fu³ wo³

呢Lot貨造成咁實畀人嘈到甩褲喎

呢Lot货造成咁实畀人嘈到甩裤㖞

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Classifier for large quantity of objects or people.


fol

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, social media) follower count


fol

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, social media) to follow


trigo

/tʰɹɪk̚⁵⁵ kou̯³⁵/


troll

可以，可以show 你個人有幾troll。

2017 December 3, TRANSPARENCE 澈, number 37, page 5:

(Hong Kong Cantonese, slang) trolly (tending to troll)


troll

(Hong Kong Cantonese, slang) to troll (to incite anger)


手指

/ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/səu⁵³ t͡sz̩⁵³/

/sɐu̯³⁵ t͡siː³⁵/

/su³¹ t͡sɨ³¹/

/ʃiu²⁴⁻³³ t͡ʃi²⁴/

/t͡sʰiu⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡si⁵⁵⁴/

/t͡sʰiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡si⁵³/

/t͡sʰiu⁴⁴⁵⁻³³ t͡sai⁴⁴⁵/

/t͡sʰiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sai⁵³/

/t͡sʰiu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sãi⁴¹/

/t͡sʰiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sãi⁵³/

/t͡sʰiu⁵²⁻³⁵ t͡sõĩ⁵²⁻²¹/

/sɤ³³ t͡sz̩⁴⁴/

/ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/səu⁵³ t͡sz̩⁵³/

/sɐu̯³⁵ t͡siː³⁵/

/su³¹ t͡sɨ³¹/

/ʃiu²⁴⁻³³ t͡ʃi²⁴/

/t͡sʰiu⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡si⁵⁵⁴/

/t͡sʰiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡si⁵³/

/t͡sʰiu⁴⁴⁵⁻³³ t͡sai⁴⁴⁵/

/t͡sʰiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sai⁵³/

/t͡sʰiu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sãi⁴¹/

/t͡sʰiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sãi⁵³/

/t͡sʰiu⁵²⁻³⁵ t͡sõĩ⁵²⁻²¹/

/sɤ³³ t͡sz̩⁴⁴/

/t͡sʰiu⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡si⁵⁵⁴/

/t͡sʰiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡si⁵³/

/t͡sʰiu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡si⁴¹/

/t͡sʰiu⁴⁴⁵⁻³³ t͡si⁴⁴⁵/

/t͡sʰiu⁴²⁻²⁴ t͡si⁴²/

/t͡sʰiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sãi⁵³/

/t͡sʰiu⁵²⁻³⁵ t͡si⁵²⁻²¹/

/t͡sʰiu³¹⁻⁵⁵ t͡si³¹/

/t͡sʰiu⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡si⁵⁵⁴/

/t͡sʰiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡si⁵³/

/t͡sʰiu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡si⁴¹/

/t͡sʰiu⁴⁴⁵⁻³³ t͡si⁴⁴⁵/

/t͡sʰiu⁴²⁻²⁴ t͡si⁴²/

/t͡sʰiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sai⁵³/

/t͡sʰiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sãi⁵³/

/t͡sʰiu⁵²⁻³⁵ t͡si⁵²⁻²¹/

/t͡sʰiu³¹⁻⁵⁵ t͡si³¹/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, informal) flash drive; thumb drive (Classifier: 隻／只 c)


mon

唔想下下俾人mon住

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to monitor (watch)


BBQ

/piː⁵⁵ piː⁵⁵ kʰiːu̯⁵⁵/

/piː⁵⁵ piː⁵⁵ kʰiːu̯⁵⁵/

From English BBQ. The “cliched happy ending” sense comes from the fact that TVB dramas often end in some form of a barbecue.

(Hong Kong Cantonese, of soap operas) cliched happy ending


BBQ

/piː⁵⁵ piː⁵⁵ kʰiːu̯⁵⁵/

/piː⁵⁵ piː⁵⁵ kʰiːu̯⁵⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, of soap operas) to end in a cliched happy ending


title

/tʰɐi̯⁵⁵ tʰou̯²¹/

/tʰɐi̯⁵⁵ tʰou̯²¹/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) title; appellation; (especially) job title


grade

(Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly university slang) grade


social

From English social or Clipping of English socialize or English sociable.

(Hong Kong Cantonese) social; sociable; outgoing


social

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to socialize (to interact with others)


fashion

/fɛː⁵⁵ sɵn²¹/

/fɛː⁵⁵ sɵn²¹/

Borrowed from English fashion. Doublet of 花臣.

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Taiwanese Mandarin) fashionable


fashion

/fɛː⁵⁵ sɵn²¹/

/fɛː⁵⁵ sɵn²¹/


high tea

/haːi̯⁵⁵ tʰiː⁵⁵/

/haːi̯⁵⁵ tʰiː⁵⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to enjoy afternoon tea (especially a luxurious one)


high tea

/haːi̯⁵⁵ tʰiː⁵⁵/

/haːi̯⁵⁵ tʰiː⁵⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) luxurious, formal afternoon tea


adapter

/aː²² tɛːp̚⁵ tʰaː³⁵/

/aː²² tɛːp̚⁵ tʰaː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) adapter (device between connectors with different formats)


status

(Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial) relationship status


cred

唔夠cred畢業／唔够cred毕业 [Cantonese] ― m⁴ gau³ kwet¹ bat¹ jip⁶ [Jyutping] ― not enough credits for graduation

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) credit


朋友

/pʰɤŋ³⁵ joʊ̯³/

/pʰɤŋ³⁵ joʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/pʰoŋ²¹ iəu⁵³/

/pʰɐŋ²¹ jɐu̯¹³/

/pʰɛn¹¹ iu⁴⁴/

/pʰəŋ¹¹ iəu⁵³/

/piɪŋ¹³⁻²² iu⁵³/

/piɪŋ²³⁻³³ iu⁴¹/

/piɪŋ²⁴⁻²² iu⁵³/

/piɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ iu⁵³/

/peŋ²⁴⁻²¹ iu⁴²/

/piɪŋ²⁴⁻²² iu⁵⁵⁴/

/peŋ²³⁻²¹ iu⁴⁴⁵/

/pŋ̍²⁴⁻²² iu⁵⁵⁴/

/pʰeŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ iu⁵²/

/bã²² ɦiɤ⁴⁴/

/pʊŋ¹³ i̯əu̯⁴¹/

/pən¹³ i̯əu̯⁴¹/

/b̥ɤŋ¹¹ i̯u³³/

/*bɯːŋ ɢʷɯʔ/

/pʰɤŋ³⁵ joʊ̯³/

/pʰɤŋ³⁵ joʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/pʰoŋ²¹ iəu⁵³/

/pʰɐŋ²¹ jɐu̯¹³/

/pʰɛn¹¹ iu⁴⁴/

/pʰəŋ¹¹ iəu⁵³/

/piɪŋ¹³⁻²² iu⁵³/

/piɪŋ²³⁻³³ iu⁴¹/

/piɪŋ²⁴⁻²² iu⁵³/

/piɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ iu⁵³/

/peŋ²⁴⁻²¹ iu⁴²/

/piɪŋ²⁴⁻²² iu⁵⁵⁴/

/peŋ²³⁻²¹ iu⁴⁴⁵/

/pŋ̍²⁴⁻²² iu⁵⁵⁴/

/pʰeŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ iu⁵²/

/bã²² ɦiɤ⁴⁴/

/pʊŋ¹³ i̯əu̯⁴¹/

/pən¹³ i̯əu̯⁴¹/

/b̥ɤŋ¹¹ i̯u³³/

/*bɯːŋ ɢʷɯʔ/

/pʰɤŋ³⁵ joʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) Term of address to a South Asian person.


cutting

/kʰɐt̚⁵ tʰɪŋ²¹/

/kʰɐt̚⁵ tʰɪŋ³⁵/

/kʰɐt̚⁵ tʰɪŋ²¹/

/kʰɐt̚⁵ tʰɪŋ³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) tailoring (of clothes) (Classifier: 個／个 c)


ED

/jiː⁵⁵ tiː⁵⁵/

/jiː⁵⁵ tiː⁵⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, leetspeak) Alternative form of 依啲 (ji1 di1)


facial

做facial [Cantonese] ― zou⁶ fei¹ sou⁴ [Jyutping] ― to have a facial treatment

(Hong Kong Cantonese) facial; personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face


sales

/sɛːu̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

/sɛːu̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

Being a salesperson is really hard; you have to meet the quotas and meet with clients

2015, 東尼, 爆數——香港人的銷售天書, page 9

zou⁶ seu¹ si² hou² san¹ fu² gaa³ wo³, jau⁶ jiu³ paau² sou³, jau⁶ jiu³ deoi³ haak³

做Sales好辛苦㗎喎，又要跑數，又要對客

2015, 東尼, 爆數——香港人的銷售天書, page 9

做Sales好辛苦㗎㖞，又要跑数，又要对客

In October, what should I treat my colleagues, security, cleaning ladies and salespeople at the counters to?

sap⁶ jyut⁶ fan⁶ jing¹ goi¹ ceng² tung⁴ si⁶, bou² on¹, cing¹ git³ neoi⁵ gung¹, zyun¹ gwai⁶ seu¹ si² sik⁶ mat¹ dung¹ dung¹

十月份應該請同事、保安、清潔女工、專櫃sales食乜東東

十月份应该请同事、保安、清洁女工、专柜sales食乜东东

If I were always satisfied with the situation then, my situation today should be similar to many of my friends who were salespeople around the same time as me, their positions and salaries already at the ceiling mid-high position, with 10 or 8 salespeople under them

2016, 郭釗, HEA富學：一天只做 2 小時的創富方程式, page 50

jyu⁴ gwo² dong¹ nin⁴ ngo⁵ jat¹ zik⁶ mun⁵ zuk¹ jin⁶ zong⁶, gam¹ jat⁶ cing⁴ fong³ jing¹ goi¹ gan¹ han² do¹ tung⁴ kei⁴ dik¹ seu¹ si² pang⁴ jau⁵ caa¹ bat¹ do¹, zik¹ kap¹ wo⁴ san¹ cau⁴ ji⁵ dou³ daat⁶ tin¹ faa¹ baan² dik¹ zung¹ gou¹ cang⁴ wai⁶ zi³, sau² haa⁶ ho² nang⁴ jau⁵ sap⁶ go³ baat³ go³ seu¹ si²

如果當年我一直滿足現狀，今日情況應該跟很多同期的sales朋友差不多，職級和薪酬已到達天花板的中高層位置，手下可能有十個八個sales

如果当年我一直满足现状，今日情况应该跟很多同期的sales朋友差不多，职级和薪酬已到达天花板的中高层位置，手下可能有十个八个sales


prefer

/pʰiː²² fœː⁵⁵/

/pʰiː²² fœː⁵⁵/

Just now, Mr Pennicott has submitted his client's views and I believe he would prefer I start first. He had asked two things…

2016, 石永泰 [Paul SHIEH Wing-tai], 食水含鉛超標調查委員會 [Commission of Inquiry into Excess Lead Found in Drinking Water], P.139 of transcript

gong¹ coi⁴ zau⁶ Mr Pennicott zau⁶ tung⁴ ngo⁵ tai⁴ ceot¹ zo² jat¹ di¹ keoi⁵ dong¹ si⁶ jan⁴ ge³ ji³ gin³, ngo⁵ nam² keoi⁵ zau⁶ pi⁶ foe¹ ngo⁵ hoi¹ seng¹ gong², keoi⁵ zau⁶ jiu¹ kau⁴ zau⁶ loeng⁵ joeng⁶ je⁵ ge³...

剛才就Mr Pennicott就同我提出咗一啲佢當事人嘅意見，我諗佢就prefer我開聲講，佢就要求就兩樣嘢嘅⋯⋯

刚才就Mr Pennicott就同我提出咗一啲佢当事人嘅意见，我谂佢就prefer我开声讲，佢就要求就两样嘢嘅⋯⋯

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to prefer (to favor)


outlook

/ɐu̯⁵⁵ lʊk̚⁵/

/ɐu̯⁵⁵ lʊk̚⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese) look; appearance; outfit


certify

/sœː⁵⁵ tʰiː²¹ faːi̯²¹/

/sœː⁵⁵ tʰiː²¹ faːi̯²¹/

Ellipsis of English certified dead. Compare the usage of English pronounce in the sense of “to pronounce dead”.

「以前cardiac arrest（心臟驟停），入到嚟（急症室）心臟停頓嗰啲呢，唔係喺急症室certify（而是送上病房，由病房醫生證明死亡）。I think it’s completely nonsense。」

2019 March 8, “公院夾縫中發圍 「急症之父」鍾展鴻：等多過4個鐘不能接受”, in 眾新聞:

“In the past, [when a patient has] cardiac arrest, those who enters [the A&E] with their hearts stopped, they are not certified dead in the A&E, but instead sent to the wards and certify the death by the doctors in the ward. I think it's complete nonsenese.”

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to pronounce dead; to attest, to declare one's death (by a doctor); to be attested, to be declared dead (by a doctor).

(Hong Kong Cantonese, figuratively) declare the death or decline of someone or something