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Radical: 瓜
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one who has the looks or pretend to be knowledgable, but actually without substance
to kill
A point-and-shoot camera; easy-control camera
winter melon soup served in an urn
(phrase) used when one speculates that someone may encounter fatal accidents in the future; mishaps
speak Mandarin Chinese in Cantonese accent
a towel gourd; a sponge gourd
calabash / one with great abilities
eating a cucumber in midnight, which means not knowing where is the start and end
To Kwa Wan, a district in central Kowloon, Hong Kong
original meaning: a big winter melon; can be used to describe a stupid or clumsy person; an oaf
(body part) upper arm; biceps
(slang) to describe someone (or an organization) who has tremendous power or authority (literally "muscular elbow")
strong and muscular arms, with big biceps
verb; to beat up someone severely or to beat someone to death
(v.) to arm wrestle with someone; to compete with someone.
verb; literally: pointing at the winter melon but talk about gourd. It means abuse a person by ostensibly pointing to someone else
if anything unfortunate happens
hairy gourd; little wintermelon
(Cantonese analogy) someone will lose half of something
sponge gourd
bitter melon / gourd
a pun on the word 'Putonghua' (Mandarin); literally 'to boil a winter melon'
(noun) a female who is not mature enough and not elegant enough; (adjective) slow witted
edible part of a melon seed
to be divided
dead (spoken)
(noun) Oval-shaped face
Common Purslane, a plant used mainly for Chinese medicine
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