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"etymology_text": "Reduplication of ding, after the double-bell-ring of a tram.",
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"examples": [
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"ref": "2017, Cannix Yau, “Happy happy ding ding? Hong Kong’s new-look trams offer more smiles per mile”, in South China Morning Post:",
"text": "Another 157 trams will display a smile on their bumpers for three months to represent Hongkongers’ happy collective memories of the vehicles, affectionately known as “ding dings”.",
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"(Hong Kong, informal) A tram."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "ding, ding, ding, we have a winner"
}
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"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "ding¹ ding¹",
"sense": "Hong Kong tram",
"word": "叮叮"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "ding¹ ding¹ ce¹",
"sense": "Hong Kong tram",
"word": "叮叮車 /叮叮车"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dīngdīng",
"sense": "Hong Kong tram",
"word": "叮叮"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dīngdīngchē",
"sense": "Hong Kong tram",
"word": "叮叮車 /叮叮车"
}
]
}
],
"word": "ding ding"
}
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"etymology_text": "Reduplication of ding, after the double-bell-ring of a tram.",
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"ref": "2017, Cannix Yau, “Happy happy ding ding? Hong Kong’s new-look trams offer more smiles per mile”, in South China Morning Post:",
"text": "Another 157 trams will display a smile on their bumpers for three months to represent Hongkongers’ happy collective memories of the vehicles, affectionately known as “ding dings”.",
"type": "quote"
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"(Hong Kong, informal) A tram."
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"translations": [
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"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "ding¹ ding¹",
"sense": "Hong Kong tram",
"word": "叮叮"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "ding¹ ding¹ ce¹",
"sense": "Hong Kong tram",
"word": "叮叮車 /叮叮车"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dīngdīng",
"sense": "Hong Kong tram",
"word": "叮叮"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dīngdīngchē",
"sense": "Hong Kong tram",
"word": "叮叮車 /叮叮车"
}
],
"word": "ding ding"
}
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