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白鴿
  baak6 gap3   jyutping
  bai2 ge1   pinyin
pigeon; dove | Also Cant: gap3(2) 鴿 | syn. Mand: 鴿子

noun

Level: 2   Google Frequency: 358,000

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

This word has been viewed 3457 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by spacemonkey on 30th Nov 2004 21:02 and last edited on 1st Oct 2014 20:48
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Characters in this word:

 baak6  -  white; clear; pure
鴿  gap3 gaap3  -  dove, pigeon

4 compounds containing this word:

白鴿籠 - dove-cote
白鴿眼 - look of disdain
放白鴿 - a confidence trick where woman snares a man then runs away with money/jewels
打白鴿轉 - go for a quick walk around the block (lit., "circle like pigeons")

Showing 1 example containing 白鴿
detail 唔好白鴿佢哋非常之揦鮓
Don't touch the pigeons, they're very dirty.
[Lit. don't touch [plural counter] pigeons [particle], they extremely dirty Other synonyms for 揦鮓: 污糟 and 污糟邋遢 ]
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