1943

Year 1949

six numbers pronounced with the first tone to the sixth tone respectively in Cantonese: 3, 9, 4, 0, 5, 2

three or four

three to four hundred

time and again

The four great inventions of ancient China

talk nonsense or rubbish (spoken)

talk rubbish; talk nonsense

twenty-four

twenty four days; twenty-fourth [date]

twenty-fourth

May Fourth (movement)

May Fourth Movement

all around the world

5:40

Four Asian Tigers: Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea

to be someone's slave or servant; to be a nobody just doing odd jobs for others; to work as a labourer [colloquial]

lit. two coasts and four lands, including the Greater China region of Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau

eighty-four

the year 1984

Six Four

Tiananmen Square incident

repeatedly

fourteen

14K, a triad gang [written and colloquial]

fourteen days; fourteenth [date]

a sonnet

to be employed to do work for others

(Cantonese version of the Idiom, 不三不四) neither fish nor fowl (describing a failed compromise that is unsatisfactory for everyone); dubious; shady; immodest; indecent