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防晒板fáng shài bǎn
sun visor
Definitions
Components | ||
防 | fáng | |
1. (literary, or in compounds) dam; embankment | ||
2. (obsolete) fortress; stronghold | ||
3. (obsolete) to dam; to block; to build an embankment | ||
4. to prevent; to guard against | ||
防癌 - to prevent cancer | ||
這 種 人 不得 不 防。 - You must guard against people like this. | ||
5. (literary, or in compounds) to defend; to safeguard | ||
防線 - line of defense | ||
6. (literary, or in compounds) matters pertaining to defense | ||
邊防 - border defense | ||
國防 - national defense | ||
晒 | ||
1. Simplified form of 曬 | ||
2. Simplified form of 嗮 | ||
嗮 | sài | |
1. (Cantonese, dialectal Hakka) (Verbal aspect marker for full extent.) | ||
做 嗮 功課 未 呀? - Have you finished all your homework? | ||
今晚maan5-1 唔 知 點解 個個 都 冇乜 胃口,搞到 食 剩zing6 嗮 啲 餸。 - For some reason, everyone is not hungry tonight and left all the food almost untouched. | ||
多謝 嗮! - Thank you very much! | ||
等 佢哋 走 嗮 先。 - Wait until they've all gone. | ||
已經 喺 嗮 出便 啦。 - They're all outside already. | ||
2. (Nanning Cantonese) (Verbal aspect marker for completion of an action (perfective).) | ||
3. Variant of 嘥 | ||
曬 | shài | |
1. (of the sun) to shine on | ||
2. to sun; to expose or dry in the sun | ||
曬 衣服fu - to dry clothes in the sun - | ||
3. (Cantonese) with strong sunshine; glaring; glaringly hot | ||
4. (Cantonese, photography) to print photos | ||
5. (neologism, slang) to display publicly to show off; to share (in order to fish for compliments) | ||
板 | bǎn | |
1. plank; board | ||
木板 - board; plank | ||
玻璃 板 - glass board | ||
2. blackboard | ||
板報 | ||
3. sluggish; stiff; inflexible | ||
呆板 - sluggish | ||
古板 - stuffy; old-fashioned and inflexible | ||
4. to harden; hardened | ||
5. (internet) board (sub-unit of a larger BBS or imageboard) | ||
6. (music) clapper | ||
7. (music) beat; meter; rhythm (in music or Chinese opera) | ||
行板 - andante | ||
散sǎn板 - sanban | ||
8. to look serious or displeased | ||
9. (literary or Min Nan) wooden coffin | ||
10. (Min Nan) ability; capability; talent | ||
11. (Suzhou) to have to; must | ||
噶 聲 閒話 板 是 俚 說 噶。 - That voice must be his., W-SZ, ref=1993, 蘇州方言詞典, page 19 | ||
12. Variant of 闆 | ||
闆 | bǎn | |
1. Only used in 老闆 | ||
2. to look from a door (attn, zh, please check: 門中視) | ||
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fáng shài bǎn
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