鮓 (zaa2 | zha3) : low quality or level; trashy

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鮓

zaa2

zha3

[1] [粵] [adj] of low quality or level; trashy; inferior | [variant] 渣
[2] [n] salted fish; dish served with ground rice and flour with other condiments

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Stroke count: 16

Level: 3

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This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

鮓

This word has been viewed 6038 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 4th May 2015 14:41

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揦鮓 laa5 zaa2 = dirty 粵

揦鮓招 laa5 zaa2 ziu1 = dirty trick 粵

鮓斗 zaa2 dau2 = useless; poor 粵

白鮓 baak6 zaa3 / zaak3 bai2 zha4 = 1. jellyfish 2. traffic police officer 粵

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乜你咁鮓架, 行快啲得嘛? 粵
How come you're so puny! Can't you walk slightly faster?

唔好摸啲白鴿啦，佢哋非常之揦鮓粵
Don't touch the pigeons, they're very dirty.
[Lit. don't touch [plural counter] pigeons [particle], they extremely dirty Other synonyms for 揦鮓: 污糟 and 污糟邋遢 ]

佢竟然出噉嘅揦鮓招！粵
I never expected him to use such dirty tricks!

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Unicode code for this character: U+9b93 (off-site link)

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