寒hon4酸syun1

hon4 syun1han2suan1hán suān

English

wretched
(adjective) Shabby
poverty-stricken
unpresentable (for clothing, gifts etc)
(of clothes) shabby; ragged; unseemly; (of people) mean, stingy, miserly

粵語 — Cantonese

形容裝扮唔光鮮、破舊；亦指人孤寒、鐸叔、潦倒

Examples

大楼看上去那么寒酸。
The buildings look so tiny.
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佢着得好寒酸。
He was shabbily dressed.
覺唔覺佢成日慳住慳住咁做人，好鬼寒酸？
Do you think he's too frugal in his daily life, making him seem stingy?

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

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