"bug" meaning in Chinese

See bug in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /pɐk̚⁵/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA]
Etymology: From English bug. Etymology templates: {{bor|yue|en|bug}} English bug Head templates: {{head|zh|adjective}} bug
  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, of software) buggy; bugged Tags: Cantonese, Hong-Kong
    Sense id: en-bug-zh-adj-DX-YeK9k Categories (other): Hong Kong Cantonese, Software

Noun

IPA: /pɐk̚⁵/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA]
Etymology: From English bug. Etymology templates: {{bor|yue|en|bug}} English bug Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} bug
  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, computing) bug (Classifier: 個/个 c; 隻/只 c) Tags: Cantonese, Hong-Kong
  2. (Hong Kong Cantonese, by extension) plot hole (Classifier: 個/个 c) Tags: Cantonese, Hong-Kong, broadly
    Sense id: en-bug-zh-noun-lB4ELhgw Categories (other): Chinese nouns classified by 個/个, Hong Kong Cantonese, Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Chinese terms written in foreign scripts Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 14 26 56 4 Disambiguation of Chinese terms written in foreign scripts: 11 14 67 9

Verb

IPA: /pɐk̚⁵/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA]
Etymology: From English bug. Etymology templates: {{bor|yue|en|bug}} English bug Head templates: {{head|zh|verb}} bug
  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, of software) to have bugs; to fault Tags: Cantonese, Hong-Kong
    Sense id: en-bug-zh-verb-dqL4HmB1 Categories (other): Hong Kong Cantonese, Software
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Download raw JSONL data for bug meaning in Chinese (5.3kB)

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}

{
  "called_from": "wiktionary/179/20240425uppercase_tags",
  "msg": "bug/Chinese/noun: invalid uppercase tag Hong-Kong not in or uppercase_tags",
  "path": [],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "bug",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "wiktionary/179/20240425uppercase_tags",
  "msg": "bug/Chinese/verb: invalid uppercase tag Hong-Kong not in or uppercase_tags",
  "path": [],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "bug",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "wiktionary/179/20240425uppercase_tags",
  "msg": "bug/Chinese/adj: invalid uppercase tag Hong-Kong not in or uppercase_tags",
  "path": [],
  "section": "Chinese",
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  "title": "bug",
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}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-09-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-23 using wiktextract (20da82b and a97feda). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.