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Definition: Often overused by Fake ABCs in Hong Kong for creating a western appeal, especially when they lack English vocabulary.
Usage: E.g. Actually，我都要Ｄ時間諗下先。我過兩日再覆你。 E.g. 朋友：我地係咪約好左聽日去睇戲呀？你：Actually，我聽日唔得閒。 E.g. Actually，你講既野都有D道理。不過我唔同意。
Synonym: 其實
Definition: A code-mixing term that local Hong Kongers like to use to refer to a distinctive characteristic by which someone or something can be identified.
Usage: E.g. 中英夾雜絕對係香港人signature。 E.g. 呢碟菜就係呢間餐廳既signature。
Synonym: 標誌，招牌菜
Reference: https://www.threads.net/@hongtonese/post/C8zlfwZytLZ
Definition: A versatile code-mixing term that local Hong Kong students use in a variety of situations, depending on the context. However, the recently popular phrase of 'take嘢' can also be roughly translated into a number of different things and not only refer to taking drugs, as the Cantonese word '嘢' has a literal meaning of 'thing'.
Usage: E.g. 你諗住take邊科? (Which subject will you take?) E.g. 我要take個sick leave. (I will need to take a sick leave.) E.g. 上堂要記住take notes. (Remember to take notes during lesson.)
Synonym: 拿取, 攞, 拎
Definition: A Kongish code-mixing phrase that local Hong Kongers use to refer to something that has just happened.
Usage: E.g. My frd arm arm told me kui find gun ppl. E.g. Ngo arm arm sik jor farn. (我啱啱食左飯。）
Synonym: 啱啱
Reference: https://www.hk01.com/開罐/283411/大學生打字用火星文-10句港式英文拼音大挑戰-測試你識幾多
Definition: Often pronounced as 'vely gud', this is a code-mixing expression that grassroots Hong Kongers like to use when they cannot think of any other way to complement or give praise to something. 'Vely' (very) can also be used with other words such as 'delicious', even though delicious already denotes the meaning of excellence in food quality.
Usage: E.g. 哇，今次做得好。Vely gud！ E.g. 哇，D牛扒真係vely delicious呀！
Definition: A code-mixing term that westernised Hong Kongers often use to ask someone to go to an event in a polite and semi-formal manner.
Usage: E.g. A: 可唔可以叫埋我個friend黎？B: 好呀，等我invite埋佢啦。(A: Can you get my friend to come as well? B: Sure, let me invite him.)
Synonym: 邀請
Reference: https://lihkg.com/thread/2051830/page/2
Definition: A code-mixing term that native Hong Kongers use to tell somebody to shut the f**k up. It is used instead of the Cantonese equivalent '收皮' in order to tone down the directness of this very rude phrase. It originates from street vendors who used to pack their things up on wooden mats when police arrived back in those days of Hong Kong.
Usage: E.g. 喂，講完未呀？Collect skin啦。E.g. 真係頂你唔順呀，快D collect skin啦。
Synonym: 收皮
Reference: https://www.timeout.com/hong-kong/things-to-do/cantonese-slang-you-need-to-know-right-now?utm_campaign=likeshopme&utm_medium=instagram&utm_source=dash+hudson&utm_content=www.instagram.com/p/Cy8AD_WtaxO/ (use mobile version)
Definition: A Kongish code-mixing term that local Hong Kong students use to emphasize the zero mark they got in a test or exam, which they like to honour themselves with because not only a chicken egg has the shape of the zero number, but also it has become a friendly treat that they are used to eating all the time.
Usage: E.g. Oh no! I got a zero chicken egg in my exam again!
Synonym: 零雞蛋
Reference: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/零雞蛋
Definition: A code-mixing term used by overseas educated Hong Kongers to refer to noticing something in a more passive and less intentional way.
Usage: E.g. 我唔係唔知道發生咩事，只不過當時我唔係咁aware周邊既環境姐。(It's not that I don't know what was going on, but I was just not aware of my surrounding environment at that time.)
Synonym: 意識；知道；察覺；為意
Definition: (noun) The Hong Kong way of referring to '支票' in Cantonese.
Usage: E.g. 可以開張cheque比我嗎？
Reference: http://www.cmi.hku.hk/Ref/Article/article02/01.html
