Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- dàn
- Dàn
English
- egg
- Tanka people
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Words containing 蜑
- 蜑家話daan6 gaa1 waa2
Tanka dialect, formerly the boat people ethnic subgroup in Southern China
- 蜑家daan6 gaa1
Tanka, boat-dwelling people of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hainan, and Zhejiang provinces
- 蜑人daan6 jan4
see 蜑家[Dan4 jia1]
- 蜑戶daan6 wu6
see 蜑家[Dan4 jia1]
- 蜑民daan6 man4
see 蜑家[Dan4 jia1]
- 蜑家雞見水daan6 gaa1 gai1 gin3 seoi2
sandwich pun of which latter part is "one can look but cannot eat" or "you can just have a look". Tankas are the boat people, if they raise a chicken they will tire it up, avoid it dropping into water. Means one can look at a good thing but not allowed or unable to enjoy, mostly used to describe someone who is handling a lot of money but cannot take a penny from it, or a married man who meet an adorable girl but not allowed to date. Literally: boat people's chicken sees water
- 蜑家婆摸蜆daan6 gaa1 po4 mo2 hin2
to have given up hope, to have only hope for the next life, to have no hope (a sandwich pun which literally means "Tanka boatwoman gropes for clams", which is followed by the phrase 第篩 dai6 sai1 (another sieve); which puns with 第世 dai6 sai3 (second life) )