Cantonese words starting with M

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appendix (anatomy)

maang4 coeng2 jim4

盲腸炎盲肠炎

Barramundi (fish) (Lates calcarifer)

to follow blindly; unthinking obedience

cecum (start of the colon, linking it to small intestine)

Arranged marriage

maang4 fan1 aa2 gaa3

盲婚啞嫁盲婚哑嫁

(old custom) an arranged marriage

a blind man (normally refers to an elderly blind man)

maang4 gung1 beng2

盲公餅盲公饼

"blind-men" cookies, local delicacy of Foshan in Guangdong of China

maang4 gung1 geng3

盲公鏡盲公镜

Dark glasses (referred to as 'Blind glasses' as typically used by the blind)

maang4 gung1 sing2

盲公繩盲公绳

maang4 gung1 zuk1

(noun) a blind person's cane; a guide cane; (of metaphor) a guide who gives directions; a guardian or a mentor who gives directions or advice on life

maang4 jan4 hat6 maa5

盲人瞎馬盲人瞎马

rush headlong into disaster

maang4 jan4 mo2 zoeng6

blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经[da4 ban1 Nie4 pan2 jing1]); fig. unable to see the big picture; unable to see the wood for the trees

maang4 jan4 mun4 kau4

盲人門球盲人门球

goalball (Paralympic sport)

maang4 kyun4 daa2 sei2 lou5 si1 fu2

盲拳打死老師父盲拳打死老师父

to defeat a more skilful or experienced person by sheer fluke [colloquial]

(PRC) flow of people from the countryside into the cities; drifter

hagfish (jawless proto-fish of class Myxini)

(adjective) to have bad eyesight; blurred; (of a situation or something) unclear; uncomprehending; vague (adverb) to describe how one is doing something blindly, without a proper understanding of it

(noun) someone not sees things carelessly; someone cannot see

(adjective) Purposeless

(adjective) blind; unseeing

Blind year, a year without Lichun (start of spring, when the sun is exactly at the celestial longitude of 315°), considered an unlucky year for marriage

cecum (anatomy)

maang4 tau4 wu1 jing1

盲頭烏蠅盲头乌蝇

(act like) a headless chicken

maang4 zi6 dou1 m4 sik1 do1 zi6

盲字都唔識多隻盲字都唔识多只

illiterate [colloquial]

white cane (used by the blind)

maang4 zung1 zung1

to do things blindly; to not look where one is going [colloquial]

(adjective) powerful

a dangerous path in ancient China, now Luoshan county, Henan province, China

maang5 bat1 fong4

suddenly; taken by surprise

to charge forward

drop sharply (e.g. stock prices)