脆皮
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English
- crispy skin (of food)
- crispy skin
- (of foods) crispy on the outside only
- figuratively, fragile, vulnerable to shock or crash
粵語 — Cantonese
- 形容食物外層嘅脆面
- 借指物件質地脆弱、經唔起衝擊、碰撞;削、脆
Examples
脆皮豆腐
crispy bean curd ----
真係估唔到呢架車咁貴但係咁脆皮,一撞就散晒。
I really couldn't expect this car to be so expensive but so fragile: it broke into pieces in a single crash.
Sources: cc-canto, cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk