粵

少siu3林lam4

siu3 lam4Shào lín

English

  1. the Shaolin monastery and martial arts school
  2. ShaoLin Temple, or ShaoLin Faction, a Buddism monastery/ organisation in China, famous for it's martial art tradition. Henan Songshan ShaoLin Temple (Northern ShaoLin) was found during Northern Wei Dynasty (495DC), later the ShaoLin expanded their branches in Fuk Kin during Tong Dynasty, aka Southern ShaoLin. Literally: ShaoLin (youth forest)
  3. figuratively companies or institutes providing solid training

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 指少林寺,或少林派別,以武功聞名嘅中國佛教寺廟、組織。河南嵩山少林寺(北少林)建於北魏(公元495年),唐朝年間福建增建幾個少林寺,通稱為南少林。
  2. 比喻一啲訓練基礎紥實嘅公司或學院

Examples

  • 少林功夫

    martial art of ShaoLin

  • 天下武功出少林

    the worlds' martial arts are originated from ShaoLin ----

  • 呢間公司可以話係IT界嘅少林寺,訓練咗唔少人材,響果度做過嘅人技術都有返咁上下。 (ni1 gaan1 gung1 si1 ho2 ji5 waa6 hai6 IT gaai3 ge3 siu3 lam4 zi6, fan3 lin6 zo2 m4 siu2 jan4 coi4, hoeng2 gwo2 dou6 zou6 gwo3 ge3 jan4 gei6 seot6 dou1 jau5 faan1 gam2 soeng6 haa2)

    This company is renowned in the IT industry for training top technical experts.

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

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