Cantonese words starting with D

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to scatter; to beat (an egg)

to hold up an umbrella

daa2 saang1 daa2 sei2

fight to life or death; fight to the end

daa2 sam1 ngaan5 leoi5

打心眼裡打心眼里

from the bottom of one's heart; sincerely

daa2 sau2 coeng1

打手槍打手枪

打手語打手语

to use sign language

打瀉茶打泻茶

to spill the tea; it describes the situation when women are assigned to marry a certain men, and has accepted the marriage proposal gifts, yet the future husband pass away before having the wedding ceremony

打蛇餅打蛇饼

a long queue (slang)

daa2 se4 ceoi4 gwan3 soeng5

打蛇隨棍上打蛇随棍上

(proverb) press home one's advantage; to seize an opportunity to make a request or to propose one's ideas; exploit a loophole in what someone has said to one's advantage

daa2 sei2 bat1 lei4 can1 hing1 dai6

打死不離親兄弟打死不离亲兄弟

noun; brothers who are related have stronger obligations to each other than to people outside the family; "blood is thicker than water"

daa2 sei2 gau2 gong2 gaa3

打死狗講價打死狗讲价

an unethical way of business dealing where the trader indirectly forces the customer to pay a higher price afterwards when it is too late to reverse the deal

打死纈打死缬

to tie a dead knot

daa2 seng2 sap6 ji6 fan1 zing1 san4

打醒十二分精神

stay fully alert (slang)

daa2 seoi2 piu1

to skip stones (on water)

to shatter; to smash; to break into pieces

to go to sleep [written and colloquial]

to have hiccups

(verb) to hiccup

to become the leader; to make decisions on behalf of others; to buy over; to suborn

in-charge (slang)

to go in search of food (of animals)

to meditate (of Buddhist)

daa2 sing2 sap6 ji6 go3 zing1 san4

打醒十二個精神打醒十二个精神

to be attentive and highly concentrated

daa2 sing2 zing1 san4

to be attentive and concentrated

daa2 sing3 zoeng3

打勝仗打胜仗

to win a war ; match

daa2 sing4 jat1 pin3

(idiom) to become as one (with a particular group of people); to mix well; to bond

daa2 sing4 ping4 sau2

to draw (a competition)

to dispel (doubts, misgivings etc)

daa2 siu2 bou3 gou3

打小報告打小报告

(coll.) to tattletale; to rat on sb

a Chinese custom akin to a Voodoo doll, where a person can hire someone to use a wooden block or shoe to hit a man-shaped piece of paper with another person's name and birth date (or other details) on it, believing that it can curse one's enemy with bad luck

daa2 siu2 syun3 pun4

打小算盤打小算盘

lit. to count on a narrow abacus (idiom); petty and scheming selfishly; selfish and uncaring of the interests of others

to injure; to damage

tips (to a waiter)

(verb) to tidy up

打輸數打输数

expecting failure; to prepare for the worst

to plan; to calculate; intention; CL:個|个[ge4]

daa2 syun3 pun4

打算盤打算盘

to compute on the abacus; to plan

打旋兒打旋儿

erhua variant of 打旋[da3 xuan2]

daa2 syut3 zoeng3

to have a snowball fight

to make discreet inquiries

打嚏噴打嚏喷

打頭鑼打头锣

being the leader; to take the lead

daa2 tau4 paau3

打頭炮打头炮

verb; fire the first shot; fire the first round; the first or leading launch of something