粵

邊bin1疆goeng1

simp边疆
bin1 goeng1biān jiāng

English

  1. border area
  2. border; frontier, especially when remote, undeveloped or at war
  3. borderland
  4. frontier
  5. frontier region

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 國土嘅邊緣,通常指偏遠、未開發嘅地帶或者戰爭前線

Examples

  • 發配邊疆

    to be transferred / banished to the borderlands (esp. in ancient times); figuratively, to be transferred to an undesirable or far-away place (esp. at work)

  • 駐守邊疆

    to be stationed at the border

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

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