粵

豆dau6膶jeon6

dau6 jeon6dau6 jeon2dòu rèn

English

  1. small or tiny like a bean (spoken)
  2. dried bean curd. As the word "dry" is a taboo in Cantonese for superstitious people, the sound "moist" is used as a euphemism to represent the "dry".

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 即係豆腐乾,但係廣東話「乾乾」聲唔吉利,所以就叫做豆腐潤。

Examples

  • 豆潤咁細

    As small as dried bean curd

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

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