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豆丁
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a kid; a small boy Derived from the Classical Chinese term 豎子, signifying "boy" or "lad". Since a "small boy" would presumably be half the height of a boy, 豆丁 is the result of cutting off the top half of the characters 豎子 to illustrate this presumption. Level: 3 Google Frequency: 111,000 This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. 粵 |
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This word has been viewed 1525 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by bybell on 30th Jul 2005 22:19 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008 19:03 |
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Characters in this word:豆 dau6 dau6*2 - beans; peas丁 ding1 - male adult; manual worker; fourth 1 compounds containing this word:豆丁咁大 - very small; as small as a bean |
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