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葡萄干pú tao gān
sultana
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 葡萄干 | ||
| 1. Simplified form of 葡萄乾 | ||
| 葡萄乾 | pútáogān, tl2=y, ertl2=y | |
| 1. n. raisin | ||
| 葡萄乾gān 麵包 - raisin bread | ||
| Components | ||
| 葡萄 | pútáo, er=y | |
| 1. n. grape | ||
| 2. v. (Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism, slang) to be jealous; to envy (from (m, zh, 吃不到的葡萄是酸的, t=the grapes are sour anyway, tr=-)) | ||
| 葡 | pú | |
| 1. Used in 葡萄 (grape) (and related terms.) | ||
| 2. Short for 葡萄牙, Portugal | ||
| 3. (chiefly Cantonese by extension in compounds) Macau | ||
| 4. 葡幣 - Macanese pataca - | ||
| 5. 葡汁 - Portuguese sauce (a kind of sauce in Macanese cuisine) - | ||
| 萄 | táo, tao | |
| 1. a kind of grass | ||
| 2. Used in 葡萄 | ||
| 干 | gàn | |
| 1. Variant of 乾 | ||
| 2. Simplified form of 幹 | ||
| 3. Variant of 豻 | ||
| 4. Variant of 贛 | ||
| 乾 | gān | |
| 1. dry; moistureless; waterless; arid | ||
| 我 喉嚨 很 乾gān。 - My throat feels dry. | ||
| 2. to dry; to exhaust | ||
| 3. (colloquial) to drain one's glass; bottoms up | ||
| 4. dried up; exhausted; drained | ||
| 5. (of voice) dry and coarse | ||
| 6. dried-up food | ||
| 7. adopted; adoptive; foster | ||
| 8. in vain; for nothing | ||
| 9. falsely; superficially | ||
| 10. not sweet; lacking sweetness | ||
| 11. first of the eight trigrams (bagua) used in Taoist cosmology, represented by the symbol ☰ | ||
| 12. first hexagram of the I Ching, represented by the symbol ䷀ | ||
| 乾乾道 - ways of heaven; natural law | ||
| 13. (Min) Alternative form of 焦 (-, t=dry) | ||
| 幹 | gàn | |
| 1. main part of something; body; trunk | ||
| 樹幹 - trunk of a plant | ||
| 軀幹 - body of animals | ||
| 幹道 - main road; high street | ||
| 2. (colloquial) to do | ||
| 你 在 幹 什麼？ - What are you doing? | ||
| 3. to work | ||
| 幹活 - to work | ||
| 你 是 幹 什麼 的？ - What is your job? | ||
| 4. (vulgar) to fuck; to engage in sexual intercourse | ||
| 幹恁娘！ - Fuck your mother! , MN | ||
| 幹.你.媽！ - Fuck your mother! | ||
| 5. (vulgar) to kill | ||
| 幹掉 他！ - Kill him! | ||
| 6. (vulgar chiefly Taiwan) to steal | ||
| 誰 幹 走 了 我 的 筆？！ - Who stole my pen?! | ||
| 7. (vulgar chiefly Taiwan) to blame; to condemn | ||
| 公 幹 - criticized by everyone | ||
| 8. (Taiwan, vulgar, colloquial) (Expressing dismay or discontent.) | ||
| 9. just | ||
| 10. calm | ||
| 11. Alternative form of 干 (heavenly stem) | ||
| 12. dead | ||
| 13. Alternative form of 韓 (fence around a well) | ||
| 豻 | ||
| 贛 | gàn | |
| 1. (place, zh, t=Gan River, river, p/Jiangxi, c/China) | ||
| 2. (zh-alt-name, 江西, Jiangxi, a province of China.) | ||
| 3. Gan; Gan Chinese | ||
| 贛語 - Gan (a variant of the Chinese language) | ||
| 4. Variant of 戇 | ||
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Pronunciation
pú tao gān
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