Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- tāng
English
- to butcher
- (Cantonese) to butcher; to cut open; to chop up (used in 劏房|㓥房[tang1 fang2])
- to slaughter animals or poultry, etc.
- to cut into pieces
- to extort money from; to blackmail
- to cheat a customer or to compel purchasing
- to throw up after ingesting a large quantity of alcohol
粵語
- 宰殺動物、家禽
- 將啲嘢斬細
- 劏死牛，用武力、威逼、勒索去搶錢
- 劏水魚、劏客，指黑店呃人甚至強迫購物。又作「宰客」
- 劏白鶴，飲酒後嘔吐
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Words containing 劏
- 劏房tong1 fong2
(HK) subdivided flat (apartment); partitioned apartment; tiny residential unit created by dividing a larger flat
- 生劏saang1 tong1
(verb) to kill; To slaughter
- 劏開tong1 hoi1
to cut open
- 劏車tong1 ce1
vehicle scrapping
- 劏雞tong1 gai1
slaughter a chicken
- 劏豬tong1 zyu1
slaughter a pig
- 劏客tong1 haak3
Rip off customers
- 劏蛇tong1 se4
literally: to cut open a snake; to give a man a hand job [colloquial]
- 劏盤tong1 pun2
small flat for sale (in the private housing market)
- 劏死牛tong1 sei2 ngau4
mugging; armed robbery; robbery at gunpoint
- 劏光豬tong1 gwong1 zyu1
lost all chess pieces in a chess game (slang)
- 劏舖tong1 pou3
sub-divided shop (inside a mall)
- 劏白鶴tong1 baak6 hok6
drunk; hangover (slang)
- 劏豬凳tong1 zyu1 dang3
an expression to describe a woman who is believed to bring bad luck and misfortune to her husband
- 老劏lou5 tong1
- 劏鴨tong1 aap3
- 劏水魚tong1 seoi2 jyu2
to cheat someone, to deceive customers who are not defensive, to compel purchasing; literally "to gut a softshell turtle"
- 劏豬櫈tong1 zyu1 dang3
woman whose lovers or husbands are doomed to die; literally: butcher's chopping-board
- 劏西瓜tong1 sai1 gwaa1
- 劏雞還神tong1 gai1 waan4 san4
(as a gesture to thank god) to slaughter a chicken to offer to god after a narrow escape from a misfortune
- 劏雞井tong1 gai1 zeng2
- 阿崩劏羊aa3 bang1 tong1 joeng4
- 劏豬噉嗌tong1 zyu1 gam2 aai3
- 劏咗隻靚雞冇火煮tong1 zo2 zek3 leng3 gai1 mou5 fo2 zyu2