Re: "Vegetable" and "Sunshine"
Yes, a sunshine boy/girl is a young guy with a healthy complexion and a cheerful disposition.
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What would we call in Chinese a person who, in English, is a "vegetable" i.e. brain-dead and is only alive because of the life-support system hooked up to the body?
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Quotetym What would we call in Chinese a person who, in English, is a "vegetable" i.e. brain-dead and is only alive because of the life-support system hooked up to the body?植物人(n) Vegetative3....
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Ahh, I did my final year project on English vowel acquisition in native Cantonese speakers when I was at University, so I should have something to contribute... Problem is that I can hardly remember...
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Barbour Jacket For All SeasonsThere was a time if the jackets had been connected with winter season. The jackets had been made use of above the outfits to receive additional security towards the...
View ArticleRe: Odd Cantonese Character Readings
This is extremely helpful, thank you!!On Wikipedia, only the '-eu' and '-em/p' finals are listed as nonstandard; are those two (three?) simply more common and/or generally accepted? My IME accounts...
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QuoteC Chiu辣著 is a ‘lazy’ way of typing 焫着 which does mean “get sb angry”. Its synonym 焫㷫 is in CantoDictI cannot find a single Jyutping IME (or any other Cantonese Romanisation IME) that allows me to...
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濃情化不開 - 周華健情越濃越會化不開 看不清那未來情越長越快要放開 怕一擁抱難分開為愛你 佔據你一生 比分手更殘忍若愛你 卻要你犧牲 怎麼可算情深臨別前 望見你眼睛 聽不到你共鳴重聚時 但怕這記憶 要消失了才珍惜在那裡 你會更開心 我怎可以自私為了你 有更好開始 再不捨也願意我不懂愛 有誰會更懂得愛 我不心痛 有誰會更加心痛我珍惜你 你亦要珍惜你自己你不相信 有誰會更加相信 你不知道...
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On Wikipedia, only the '-eu' and '-em/p' finals are listed as nonstandard; are those two (three?) simply more common and/or generally accepted?Non-standard finals ‘eu’ and ‘em/ep’ are indeed the more...
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QuoteEnigmatism415I cannot find a single Jyutping IME (or any other Cantonese Romanisation IME) that allows me to type 焫 or 㷫... What gives? I can find these two characters using MS Windows'...
View ArticleSearching for vulgar entries
Had some great help on here recently.Just another question, is there a list/ page out there of all the entries with the vulgar badge just as there is for the obsolete entries and idiom entries? Would...
View ArticleRe: "Vegetable" and "Sunshine"
Under vegetative state, the Cantodict character for zik6 is different, and when I try to copy and paste it, it turns into the one shown above.S.
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I read an article about Ching-He Huang who has a food show on Time Warner Cable's Cooking Channel . Her Chinese name is 黃瀞億CantoDict translated 黃 as her last name of Wong and 億 as yik1 (a hundred...
View ArticleHelp finding a Toisan Recipe! Steamed taro bun with pork and black bean filling
I'm trying to find a Toisan recipe! It's basically a steamed bun, but the shell, or bun, is made out of taro. The filling is made of ground pork and black bean. The filling is easy to replicate, but I...
View ArticleRe: sar ke mah???
Hong Kongers mostly call it 「馬仔」「蛋散, 馬仔」are basically the same thing in different shape.[www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk]
View ArticleRe: "Vegetable" and "Sunshine"
Under “vegetative state”, I find 植物狀態 in CantoDict. This 植 character is just the same as the one shown above. I can't see any different print font.
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Hmmm, must be my Mac computer. I see a different character -- thanks for bringing it to my attention.S.
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花千樹 - 容祖兒戀愛若然像旅行風景看盡至甘心就怕給你走遍世間 仍可能疑問宇宙有沒世外桃源 尚要覓尋一見就情定某人等於對待你殘忍誰能保証終生不抱憾沒更好在眼前等遇過 很多很多戀人一朵花跟森林你未決定哪邊合襯如何投入你情感害怕 今天挑選這人轉角有個某君送贈更動魄的熱吻你為何沒有等 一早已被困花滿地 奇樹滿林花多眼亂難評分回頭只怕兜兜轉太耐沒有採就已黃昏遇過...
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