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吉他jí tā
guitar
Definitions
| Chinese > English | |
| 吉他 | jítā |
| 1. n. (musical instrument) guitar | |
| 彈tán 吉他 - to play the guitar | |
| 吉他 獨奏 - guitar solo | |
| English > Chinese | |
| guitar | |
| 1. 吉他 | |
| Components | |
| 吉 | jí |
| 1. auspicious; lucky | |
| Antonyms: 凶 | |
| 吉利 - auspicious; lucky | |
| 2. good | |
| 3. (Cantonese, euphemistic) empty | |
| Synonyms: 空 | |
| 橫掂 有 間 房fong4-2 吉 咗 喺度，不如 租 畀 人 住 啊。 - Since there's an empty room, why don't we rent it out? | |
| 交 吉 卷 - Hand out an unanswered (empty) exam paper | |
| 4. (Cantonese, euphemistic) emptiness; nothingness | |
| 勞碌 一生 得 個 吉 - A lifetime of laborious hardworking amounts to nothing | |
| 5. Short for 吉林, Jilin Province | |
| 6. (Taiwan, internet slang) to accuse; to sue; to file a lawsuit; to press charges | |
| 這 我 一定 吉 - I will definitely sue for this | |
| 7. (place, zh, t=Ji County, county, prefecture-level city/Linfen, province/Shanxi, c/China) | |
| 他 | tā, tuō |
| 1. (chiefly Mandarin Jin Xiang dialectal Wu originally gender-neutral; nowadays usually referring to males) he; him; she; her | |
| 他 去 了。 - He went away. | |
| 我 認識shi 他。 - I know him. | |
| 2. A dummy pronoun. Compare another pronoun, (m, zh, 之), that is also a topicalizer | |
| 睡 他 個 昏天黑地 | |
| (Alternative form 它) | |
| 3. other; another | |
| 別 無 他 求 - have no other request (formal) | |
| 4. usage. (sense, personal pronoun) | |
| 5. usage. * Originally gender-neutral before the 1910s, when the character she; her was coined; now usually refers to males (also occasionally refers to females). | |
| 6. usage. ** However, 他/她/牠/它/祂 is only a written distinction; they are all still pronounced as tā. | |
| 7. usage. * This term can refer to a person of unknown gender or there is no need to mention gender of the person referred to, while they (singular). | |
Pronunciation
jí tā
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