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扎炮
  zaat3 paau3   jyutping
go hungry; be famished


Level: 3
This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
扎炮

This word has been viewed 1915 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by bybell on 12th Nov 2007 00:28 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008 19:03
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Characters in this word:

 zaat3  -  station; pierce; plunge into; struggle
 paau3 baau3  -  cannon

2 Cantonese Homophones / Homophone Variants for this word:


detail  zaat3 paau3   = to reduce spending; to tighten the belt because of having an empty stomach and no money for food
detail  zaat3 paau3  zha1 pao4 = to endure hunger; to go hungry


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