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大破慳囊
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usually frugal person forking out a lot of money for personal or private purposes Level: 3 This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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This word has been viewed 1758 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by bernard on 27th Aug 2009 13:57 |
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Characters in this word:大 daai6 - big破 po3 - break; broken; cut; defeat; expose 慳 haan1 - save; thrifty; miserly; lack 囊 nong4 - bag; pocket; put in a bag |
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: the Cantonese pronunciation of the word in jyutping.
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: the Mandarin pronunciation of the word in pinyin (only if present).