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打包

daa2 baau1

[1] take-away (food - as opposed to eating at the restaurant). | Std. Chin.: 帶走
[2] to do up a recently deceased person's corpse [3] to finish off, to kill

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This word can only be used in Spoken Cantonese or informal Cantonese writing. 粵

Level: 3 Google Frequency: 2,840,000

打包

打 daa2 daa1 da3 da2 - hit; strike | dozen
包 baau1 bao1 - bag; wrap; package

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唔該幫我打包拎走粵 edit
Please wrap it up for me to take away!

This word was added by tym on 16th Jul 2004 and last edited on 20th Mar 2008

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