Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
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English
- (Cant.) liver
- animal liver as food; the Cantonese word for "liver" sounds like "dry", a big taboo in Canton as many farmers rely on plenty of water to grow rice, so the word for "moist" is used as a euphemism to represent "liver"; 膶, the new character created to represent "liver", replaces the "water" radical in the word for "moist" (潤) with a "meat" radical.
- for the same reason as the above, it work as an euphemism in Cantonese to replace "dry" with "moist"
粵語
- 可食用動物肝臟。「肝」、「乾」同音，廣東盛產水稻，乾旱係大忌，乾旱相反詞係濕潤，所以為咗避諱而創造新字「膶」。
- 「乾」嘅避諱字，原因同上。
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Words containing 膶
- 豬膶zyu1 jeon2
pig liver
- 豆膶dau6 jeon2
small or tiny like a bean (spoken)
- 膶腸jeon2 coeng2
a type of Chinese sausage, made using duck liver
- 豆腐膶dau6 fu6 jeon2
a bean curd cube; often used metaphorically to describe a place that is very small
- 少塊膶siu2 faai3 jeon2
adj; literally, missing a liver, metaphor that means missing an important part, or someone dumb and stupid
- 黃沙膶wong4 saa1 jeon2
suckling pig liver
- 孖膶腸maa1 jeon2 coeng2
a person with thick lips, like a pair of sausages
- 雞膶gai1 jeon2
- 豆膶咁細dau6 jeon2 gam3 sai3
to describe the smallness of something. Literally: as small as a dried bean curd. This comes from the fact that fresh bean curds rot very quickly, so for preservation purposes the unsold tofu are pressed under weight to remove water, sometimes boiled in tempered soy sauce, and finally dried by oven or sunlight. As dried bean curds shrink considerably, it has come to describe something that is tiny. Literally: as small as a dried bean curd cube
- 金銀膶gam1 ngan4 jeon6
a chinese dish, duck's liver stuffed with pork
- 三葉膶saam1 jip6 jeon2
- 少件膶siu2 gin6 jeon2
to be mentally disturbed; aberrant personality; abnormal mentality
- 豆腐膶咁細dau6 fu6 jeon2 gam3 sai3
to describe the smallness of something. Literally: as small as a dried bean curd. This comes from the fact that fresh bean curds rot very quickly, so for preservation purposes the unsold tofu are pressed under weight to remove water, sometimes boiled in tempered soy sauce, and finally dried by oven or sunlight. As dried bean curds shrink considerably, it has come to describe something that is tiny. Literally: as small as a dried bean curd cube