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滿mun5江gong1紅hung4

simp满江红
mun5 gong1 hung4Mǎn jiāng hóng

English

  1. Man Jiang Hong (Chinese poems)
  2. set of tone names for which poems to be composed, the most famous one is composed by Ngok Fei (Yue Fei) in Song Dynasty called "To Write My Heart".Literally: full river red ----
  3. figuratively very bad performance in the exam, as most of the subjects are failed(the grade to be written in red colour), the school report looks almost all red.

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 詞牌名,其中一首最出名嘅詞係相傳由宋代岳飛所填《滿江紅 ‧ 寫懷》
  2. 比喻考試成績非常差,大部份科目唔合格(以紅色表示),成績表一片紅色。

Examples

  • 究竟你有冇温書架?點解次次考試都滿江紅架?

    Did you study for the test? Why do you keep getting red marks on your report card?

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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