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餓死老婆燻臭屋
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be unable to earn enough money to get married or sustain a wife when married, to cause one's wife to die of hunger, and to stink up the house with her corpse |
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Characters in this word:餓 ngo6 - hungry; starving死 sei2 - die; death; dead 老 lou5 - old, venerable 婆 po4 po4*2 - old woman; grandmother 燻 fan1 - cure meat; fumigate 臭 cau3 - stinking; disgusting 屋 uk1 - house |
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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).