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乜嘢
  mat1/mi1/me1 je5   jyutping
  mie1 ye3   pinyin
what? | : 甚麼; 什麼 | :

can be used as a contraction of 乜嘢.
There is a detailed thread about the tone contour of this contraction here: [www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk]

Level: 1   Google Frequency: 9,520

This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
乜嘢

This word has been viewed 19427 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by aaron on 14th Jul 2004 02:25 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008 19:03
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Characters in this word:

 mat1 me1  -  [粵] what
 je5  -  [粵] thing; articles

6 compounds containing this word:

乜嘢都 - whatever; anything
冇乜嘢 - nothing; it doesn't matter
做乜嘢 - why
乜嘢話 - what was said?
乜嘢物嘢 - and so on
乜嘢新絲蘿蔔皮 - What does he think he is?

Showing 10 of 14 examples containing 乜嘢
detail audio 做乜嘢?
Why are you sad/angry?
detail audio 乜嘢?
What are you doing?
[http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,131584,131584#msg-131584]
detail 乜嘢
What are you doing?
detail 喺度亂講乜嘢
What the hell are you doing?
[Lit. you in-the-process-of say what? Std. Chinese: 你在胡說其麼?]
detail 乜嘢?
What do you like to drink?
[呀 is a final particle used here to soften an abrupt question.]
detail audio 乜嘢?
What is your religion?
detail audio 中意乜嘢?
What do you like?
detail audio 乜嘢都知道
I have discovered all.
detail 雖然真空但係唔係乜嘢都
Although it's a vacuum, it's not like there's nothing there.
[Lit. Although is vacuum, but not saying anything don't-have]
detail 乜嘢都正一冇膽鬼
He's scared of everything, he's a real coward.
[Lit. He what also scared, exactly one [counter] coward. Alternatively (and more simply): 佢乜嘢都怕,真係個冇膽鬼]
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