Cantonese words starting with D

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daa2 zeoi2 baa1

to type (using a keyboard, typewriter or phone etc)

打字機打字机

daa2 zi6 gei2 gung1

to be self-employed [colloquial]

daa2 zi6 gei2 gung1 zi6 gei2 waa6 si6

打自己工，自己話事打自己工，自己话事

to be self-employed and have a say, to have the authority to make decisions

打字員打字员

(verb) Cut in line

verb; to cut in line; to jump a queue

to give a discount

to give a discount

to greet sb by word or action

Tai ping qing jiao, perform a Taoist ritual

to sit in meditation

to smoke; to play mahjong [colloquial]

daa2 zoek3 daam6 ngaan5

打雀噉眼打雀啖眼

to look down on someone; to look attentively; to stare openly and stupidly; to gaze

daa2 zoek3 gam2 ngaan5

to look intently and fixatedly; looking with concentration; gawking [colloquial]

(noun) 1. messy; 2. chaotic

daa2 zoeng3 jau4

打醬油打酱油

to buy soy sauce

daa2 zoeng3 zai2

children playing games and acting like they are fighting, having a war

to hit a wooden pile; to eat something after taking drugs; to have sex [colloquial]

to drive piles into

daa2 zong1 gei1

打樁機打桩机

pile driver (machinery)

earlier; as soon as possible

to forge (metal)

to hit (a target)

verb; ring the bell, chiming

daa2 zung2 lim5 cung1 bun6 zi2

打腫臉充胖子打肿脸充胖子

lit. to swell one's face up by slapping it to look imposing (idiom); to seek to impress by feigning more than one's abilities

to think of a plan; to think of an idea to take advantage of certain people

daa2 zyu6 gaa1 gung1

to work as a nanny; to work as a domestic helper, a maid

to spin; to revolve

but; yet; however; nevertheless (loanword from Malay) [colloquial - only used in South East Asia as it is a loan word from Malay]

foolish; expressionless; to stay; dull-minded

band; girdle; tire; zone; to wear; to take along; to lead; to look after; to involve

vicious; malevolent

bad person; robber

erhua variant of 帶|带[dai4]

(Tw) excuse me; to be sorry (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [pháinn-sè])

evildoer; gangster

big; large; great; deep; oldest; greatly; (dialect) father; full-grown; a penny; honored; important; futher ahead or behind (in terms of dates); pompously; to challenge; older of the rank of leader ; to raise (in gambling games)

(noun) Chinese surname

untidy (in dress); naïve