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作zok3死sei2

zok3 sei2zuò sǐ

English

  1. to court disaster
  2. (verb) look for trouble or get into trouble
  3. also pr. [zuo1si3]
  4. an expression used when someone does something silly, careless or ruthless; "do you want to die?", "are you tired of life?"; followed by the word 你 nei5 and a final particle

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 想死;通常喺人哋做咗啲蠢嘢、唔小心或者衝動之後用;後面可以加「你」同句末助詞

Examples

  • 作死呀?

    Are you looking for trouble?

  • 作死你咩!

    What the heck were you thinking?

  • 十號風球仲走出街玩,你作死呀?

    Typhoon signal number 10 is on and you're still going out for fun. You wanna die?

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

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