"short" meaning in Chinese

See short in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /sɔːt̚⁵/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA], /sɔːk̚⁵/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA]
Etymology: From English short, in the sense of a short circuit. Cognate with Taiwanese Hokkien 秀逗. Etymology templates: {{bor|zh|en|short}} English short, {{cog|nan-hbl|秀逗}} Hokkien 秀逗 Head templates: {{head|zh|adjective}} short
  1. (Cantonese) insane; crazy Tags: Cantonese
    Sense id: en-short-zh-adj-UFUPG7dB Categories (other): Cantonese Chinese Synonyms: 痴 [Classical-Chinese], 狂 [Classical-Chinese], 癲 [Classical-Chinese], 瘋 [formal, Written-vernacular-Chinese], 狂 [formal, Written-vernacular-Chinese], 瘋癲 [formal, Written-vernacular-Chinese], 瘋狂 [formal, Written-vernacular-Chinese], 瘋 [Northeastern-Mandarin, Beijing], 有毛病 [Northeastern-Mandarin, Beijing], 瘋 [Northeastern-Mandarin, Taiwan], 神經病 [Northeastern-Mandarin, Taiwan], 神經病 [Northeastern-Mandarin, Malaysia], 發神經 [Northeastern-Mandarin, Malaysia], 痟 [Northeastern-Mandarin, Malaysia], 神經病 [Northeastern-Mandarin, Singapore], 有毛病 [Northeastern-Mandarin, Singapore], 痴 [Jiaoliao-Mandarin, Yantai, Muping], 瘋 [Central-Plains-Mandarin, Luoyang], 瘋 [Central-Plains-Mandarin, Xi'an], 瘋 [Lanyin-Mandarin, Ürümqi], 八面威 [Southwestern-Mandarin, Wuhan], 八面 [Southwestern-Mandarin, Wuhan], 瘋 [Southwestern-Mandarin, Guiyang], 癲 [Southwestern-Mandarin, Liuzhou], 瘋 [Jianghuai-Mandarin, Yangzhou], 癲 [Cantonese, Guangzhou], 黐線 [Cantonese, Guangzhou], 黐筋 [Cantonese, Guangzhou], 黐孖筋 [Cantonese, Guangzhou], 癲 [Cantonese], 黐線 [Cantonese], 黐筋 [Cantonese], 黐孖筋 [Cantonese], 黐膠花 [Cantonese], 黐總掣 [Cantonese], 黐大掣 [Cantonese], 癲 [Cantonese, Guangfu], 黐線 [Cantonese, Guangfu], 癲 [Cantonese, Penang, Guangfu], 黐線 [Cantonese, Penang, Guangfu], 癲 [Cantonese, Singapore, Guangfu], 黐線 [Cantonese, Singapore, Guangfu], 瘋 [Gan, Nanchang], 癲 [Hakka, Meixian], 癲 [Min-Dong, Fuzhou], 癲脬 [Min-Dong, Fuzhou], 痟 [Min-Nan, Xiamen], 痟 [Min-Nan, Quanzhou], 痟 [Min-Nan], 痟 [Min-Nan, Zhangzhou], 魔 [Min-Nan, Zhangzhou], 痟 [Min-Nan, Zhao'an], 痟 [Min-Nan, Tainan], 痟 [Min-Nan, Penang, Hokkien], 痟 [Min-Nan, Singapore, Hokkien], 痟 [Min-Nan, Manila, Hokkien], 痟 [Min-Nan, Chaozhou], 痟 [Min-Nan], 痟 [Min-Nan], 痟 [Min-Nan], 痟 [Min-Nan, Jieyang], 癲 [Min-Nan], 痟 [Min-Nan, Singapore, Teochew], 痟神 [Min-Nan, Leizhou], 發痟 [Min-Nan, Wenchang], 發痟 [Min-Nan, Singapore, Hainanese], 痟 [Puxian-Min], 痟 [Puxian-Min], 痴 [Wu, Shanghai], 痴 [Wu, Shanghai, Chongming], 瘋 [Wu, Danyang], 瘋 [Wu, Hangzhou], 癲 [Wu, Wenzhou], 癲 [Wu, Jinhua], 瘋 [Xiang, Loudi]

Verb

IPA: /sɔːt̚⁵/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA], /sɔːk̚⁵/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA]
Etymology: From English short, in the sense of a short circuit. Cognate with Taiwanese Hokkien 秀逗. Etymology templates: {{bor|zh|en|short}} English short, {{cog|nan-hbl|秀逗}} Hokkien 秀逗 Head templates: {{zh-verb}} short
  1. (Cantonese, of people) to become insane; to become crazy Tags: Cantonese
    Sense id: en-short-zh-verb-NkvUH0Rx Categories (other): Cantonese Chinese
  2. (Cantonese, of electronics) to malfunction Tags: Cantonese
    Sense id: en-short-zh-verb-Wb5pH~wG Categories (other): Cantonese Chinese
  3. (Cantonese, electrical engineering) to short-circuit Tags: Cantonese
    Sense id: en-short-zh-verb-CT4CWhGh Categories (other): Cantonese Chinese, Electrical engineering, Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Chinese terms written in foreign scripts Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 2 7 9 81 Disambiguation of Chinese terms written in foreign scripts: 2 17 19 63 Topics: business, electrical, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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          "roman": "sot¹ sot¹ dei⁶⁻²",
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          "ref": "1991, Fight Back to School:",
          "roman": "jau⁵ du¹ m⁴ ze³ nei⁵ laa¹, sot¹ gaa⁴ nei⁵?",
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          "word": "瘋癲"
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          "word": "瘋"
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          "word": "有毛病"
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          "word": "瘋"
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        {
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "神經病"
        },
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          ],
          "word": "神經病"
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          "word": "發神經"
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          "word": "痟"
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          "word": "神經病"
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          "word": "瘋"
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            "Xi'an"
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          "word": "瘋"
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            "Lanyin-Mandarin",
            "Ürümqi"
          ],
          "word": "瘋"
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        {
          "tags": [
            "Southwestern-Mandarin",
            "Wuhan"
          ],
          "word": "八面威"
        },
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          "tags": [
            "Southwestern-Mandarin",
            "Wuhan"
          ],
          "word": "八面"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Southwestern-Mandarin",
            "Guiyang"
          ],
          "word": "瘋"
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        {
          "tags": [
            "Southwestern-Mandarin",
            "Liuzhou"
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          "word": "癲"
        },
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            "Jianghuai-Mandarin",
            "Yangzhou"
          ],
          "word": "瘋"
        },
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            "Cantonese",
            "Guangzhou"
          ],
          "word": "癲"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese",
            "Guangzhou"
          ],
          "word": "黐線"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese",
            "Guangzhou"
          ],
          "word": "黐筋"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese",
            "Guangzhou"
          ],
          "word": "黐孖筋"
        },
        {
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            "Hong Kong"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese"
          ],
          "word": "癲"
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            "Hong Kong"
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          "tags": [
            "Cantonese"
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          "word": "黐線"
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            "Hong Kong"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese"
          ],
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            "Hong Kong"
          ],
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            "Cantonese"
          ],
          "word": "黐孖筋"
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            "Hong Kong"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese"
          ],
          "word": "黐膠花"
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            "Hong Kong"
          ],
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            "Cantonese"
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          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "黐大掣"
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        {
          "raw_tags": [
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          ],
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            "Guangfu"
          ],
          "word": "癲"
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            "Cantonese",
            "Guangfu"
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        {
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese",
            "Penang",
            "Guangfu"
          ],
          "word": "癲"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese",
            "Penang",
            "Guangfu"
          ],
          "word": "黐線"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese",
            "Singapore",
            "Guangfu"
          ],
          "word": "癲"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese",
            "Singapore",
            "Guangfu"
          ],
          "word": "黐線"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Gan",
            "Nanchang"
          ],
          "word": "瘋"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Meixian"
          ],
          "word": "癲"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Dong",
            "Fuzhou"
          ],
          "word": "癲"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Dong",
            "Fuzhou"
          ],
          "word": "癲脬"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Xiamen"
          ],
          "word": "痟"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Quanzhou"
          ],
          "word": "痟"
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            "Yongchun"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan"
          ],
          "word": "痟"
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        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Zhangzhou"
          ],
          "word": "痟"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Zhangzhou"
          ],
          "word": "魔"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Zhao'an"
          ],
          "word": "痟"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Tainan"
          ],
          "word": "痟"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Penang",
            "Hokkien"
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          "word": "痟"
        },
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          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
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            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "痟"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
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            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "痟"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Chaozhou"
          ],
          "word": "痟"
        },
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "Shantou"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan"
          ],
          "word": "痟"
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            "Shantou",
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          "tags": [
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          "word": "痟"
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            "Chaoyang"
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          "tags": [
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          "word": "痟"
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            "Min-Nan",
            "Jieyang"
          ],
          "word": "痟"
        },
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "Haifeng"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan"
          ],
          "word": "癲"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Singapore",
            "Teochew"
          ],
          "word": "痟"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Leizhou"
          ],
          "word": "痟神"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Wenchang"
          ],
          "word": "發痟"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Singapore",
            "Hainanese"
          ],
          "word": "發痟"
        },
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "Putian"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "Puxian-Min"
          ],
          "word": "痟"
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        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "Xianyou"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "Puxian-Min"
          ],
          "word": "痟"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Wu",
            "Shanghai"
          ],
          "word": "痴"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Wu",
            "Shanghai",
            "Chongming"
          ],
          "word": "痴"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Wu",
            "Danyang"
          ],
          "word": "瘋"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Wu",
            "Hangzhou"
          ],
          "word": "瘋"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Wu",
            "Wenzhou"
          ],
          "word": "癲"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Wu",
            "Jinhua"
          ],
          "word": "癲"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Xiang",
            "Loudi"
          ],
          "word": "瘋"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "zh_pron": "sot¹"
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    },
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      "zh_pron": "sōk"
    },
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      ],
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      ],
      "zh_pron": "sot⁷"
    },
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      "zh_pron": "sod¹"
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      ],
      "zh_pron": "sog¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/sɔːt̚⁵/",
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        "Hong Kong"
      ],
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        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/sɔːk̚⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
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      "id": "en-short-zh-verb-Wb5pH~wG",
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          "malfunction"
        ]
      ],
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        "(Cantonese, of electronics) to malfunction"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of electronics"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Cantonese Chinese",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "zh",
          "name": "Electrical engineering",
          "orig": "zh:Electrical engineering",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 7 9 81",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 17 19 63",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese terms written in foreign scripts",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to short-circuit"
      ],
      "id": "en-short-zh-verb-CT4CWhGh",
      "links": [
        [
          "electrical engineering",
          "electrical engineering"
        ],
        [
          "short-circuit",
          "short-circuit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Cantonese, electrical engineering) to short-circuit"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "electrical",
        "electrical-engineering",
        "electricity",
        "electromagnetism",
        "energy",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sot¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sok¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sot¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sok¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sōt"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sōk"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sot⁷"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sok⁷"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sod¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sog¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/sɔːt̚⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/sɔːk̚⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "short"
}
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  "categories": [
    "Chinese adjectives",
    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese terms borrowed from English",
    "Chinese terms derived from English",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Chinese terms written in foreign scripts",
    "Chinese verbs",
    "Pages with 8 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "English short",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nan-hbl",
        "2": "秀逗"
      },
      "expansion": "Hokkien 秀逗",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From English short, in the sense of a short circuit. Cognate with Taiwanese Hokkien 秀逗.",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
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  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese Chinese",
        "Cantonese terms with usage examples",
        "Chinese terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              4
            ],
            [
              5,
              9
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              5
            ],
            [
              6,
              11
            ]
          ],
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          "roman": "sot¹ sot¹ dei⁶⁻²",
          "tags": [
            "Traditional-Chinese",
            "Cantonese",
            "Jyutping"
          ],
          "text": "short short哋",
          "translation": "a bit crazy",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
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              31
            ]
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            [
              7,
              12
            ]
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            [
              71,
              76
            ]
          ],
          "english": "I'm not lending it [my homework to you] even if I have done it. You're crazy, aren't you?",
          "ref": "1991, Fight Back to School:",
          "roman": "jau⁵ du¹ m⁴ ze³ nei⁵ laa¹, sot¹ gaa⁴ nei⁵?",
          "tags": [
            "Traditional-Chinese",
            "Jyutping"
          ],
          "text": "有都唔借你啦,short㗎你?",
          "translation": "I'm not lending it [my homework to you] even if I have done it. You're crazy, aren't you?",
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        }
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          "crazy"
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sot¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sok¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sot¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sok¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sōt"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sōk"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sot⁷"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sok⁷"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sod¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sog¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/sɔːt̚⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/sɔːk̚⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Chinese"
      ],
      "word": "痴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Chinese"
      ],
      "word": "狂"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Chinese"
      ],
      "word": "癲"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "Written-vernacular-Chinese"
      ],
      "word": "瘋"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "Written-vernacular-Chinese"
      ],
      "word": "狂"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "Written-vernacular-Chinese"
      ],
      "word": "瘋癲"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "Written-vernacular-Chinese"
      ],
      "word": "瘋狂"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Northeastern-Mandarin",
        "Beijing"
      ],
      "word": "瘋"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Northeastern-Mandarin",
        "Beijing"
      ],
      "word": "有毛病"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Northeastern-Mandarin",
        "Taiwan"
      ],
      "word": "瘋"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Northeastern-Mandarin",
        "Taiwan"
      ],
      "word": "神經病"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Northeastern-Mandarin",
        "Malaysia"
      ],
      "word": "神經病"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Northeastern-Mandarin",
        "Malaysia"
      ],
      "word": "發神經"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Northeastern-Mandarin",
        "Malaysia"
      ],
      "word": "痟"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Northeastern-Mandarin",
        "Singapore"
      ],
      "word": "神經病"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Northeastern-Mandarin",
        "Singapore"
      ],
      "word": "有毛病"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Jiaoliao-Mandarin",
        "Yantai",
        "Muping"
      ],
      "word": "痴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Central-Plains-Mandarin",
        "Luoyang"
      ],
      "word": "瘋"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Central-Plains-Mandarin",
        "Xi'an"
      ],
      "word": "瘋"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Lanyin-Mandarin",
        "Ürümqi"
      ],
      "word": "瘋"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Southwestern-Mandarin",
        "Wuhan"
      ],
      "word": "八面威"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Southwestern-Mandarin",
        "Wuhan"
      ],
      "word": "八面"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Southwestern-Mandarin",
        "Guiyang"
      ],
      "word": "瘋"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Southwestern-Mandarin",
        "Liuzhou"
      ],
      "word": "癲"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Jianghuai-Mandarin",
        "Yangzhou"
      ],
      "word": "瘋"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou"
      ],
      "word": "癲"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou"
      ],
      "word": "黐線"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou"
      ],
      "word": "黐筋"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou"
      ],
      "word": "黐孖筋"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ],
      "word": "癲"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ],
      "word": "黐線"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ],
      "word": "黐筋"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ],
      "word": "黐孖筋"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ],
      "word": "黐膠花"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ],
      "word": "黐總掣"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ],
      "word": "黐大掣"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Kuala Lumpur"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangfu"
      ],
      "word": "癲"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Kuala Lumpur"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangfu"
      ],
      "word": "黐線"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Penang",
        "Guangfu"
      ],
      "word": "癲"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Penang",
        "Guangfu"
      ],
      "word": "黐線"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Singapore",
        "Guangfu"
      ],
      "word": "癲"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Singapore",
        "Guangfu"
      ],
      "word": "黐線"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gan",
        "Nanchang"
      ],
      "word": "瘋"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meixian"
      ],
      "word": "癲"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Dong",
        "Fuzhou"
      ],
      "word": "癲"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Dong",
        "Fuzhou"
      ],
      "word": "癲脬"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Xiamen"
      ],
      "word": "痟"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Quanzhou"
      ],
      "word": "痟"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Yongchun"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan"
      ],
      "word": "痟"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ],
      "word": "痟"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ],
      "word": "魔"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Zhao'an"
      ],
      "word": "痟"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Tainan"
      ],
      "word": "痟"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Penang",
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "痟"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Singapore",
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "痟"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Manila",
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "痟"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Chaozhou"
      ],
      "word": "痟"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Shantou"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan"
      ],
      "word": "痟"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Shantou",
        "Chenghai"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan"
      ],
      "word": "痟"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Shantou",
        "Chaoyang"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan"
      ],
      "word": "痟"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Jieyang"
      ],
      "word": "痟"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Haifeng"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan"
      ],
      "word": "癲"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Singapore",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "word": "痟"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Leizhou"
      ],
      "word": "痟神"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Wenchang"
      ],
      "word": "發痟"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Singapore",
        "Hainanese"
      ],
      "word": "發痟"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Putian"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Puxian-Min"
      ],
      "word": "痟"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Xianyou"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Puxian-Min"
      ],
      "word": "痟"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Shanghai"
      ],
      "word": "痴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Shanghai",
        "Chongming"
      ],
      "word": "痴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Danyang"
      ],
      "word": "瘋"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Hangzhou"
      ],
      "word": "瘋"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Wenzhou"
      ],
      "word": "癲"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Jinhua"
      ],
      "word": "癲"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Xiang",
        "Loudi"
      ],
      "word": "瘋"
    }
  ],
  "word": "short"
}

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    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese terms borrowed from English",
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    "Chinese terms written in foreign scripts",
    "Chinese verbs",
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    "Pages with entries"
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      "name": "bor"
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      "name": "cog"
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        [
          "insane",
          "insane"
        ],
        [
          "crazy",
          "crazy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Cantonese, of people) to become insane; to become crazy"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of people"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese Chinese"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to malfunction"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "malfunction",
          "malfunction"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Cantonese, of electronics) to malfunction"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of electronics"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese Chinese",
        "zh:Electrical engineering"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to short-circuit"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "electrical engineering",
          "electrical engineering"
        ],
        [
          "short-circuit",
          "short-circuit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Cantonese, electrical engineering) to short-circuit"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "electrical",
        "electrical-engineering",
        "electricity",
        "electromagnetism",
        "energy",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sot¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sok¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sot¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sok¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sōt"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sōk"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sot⁷"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sok⁷"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sod¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sog¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/sɔːt̚⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/sɔːk̚⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "short"
}

Download raw JSONL data for short meaning in Chinese (10.8kB)

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