bok6 cing4薄情
Jyutpingbok6 cing4
Yalebohk chìhng
Definition
Unfeeling, cold-hearted, or lacking in compassion and affection for others.
colloquialemotionpeople
How it's used
Describes a cold, detached, or ungrateful attitude toward personal relationships or past bonds. It carries a strong moral judgment, implying that the person has failed to uphold the expected level of loyalty or empathy in a social or romantic context.
Examples
I really didn't expect him to be so heartless towards his old friends.
Don't be so indifferent to others, try to help people out.
Related words
Common phrases
heartless and ungrateful
Common mistake
Avoid using this to describe physical thinness or lack of thickness, as the character 薄 here refers to the lack of depth in emotional ties rather than physical dimensions.
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
