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Hong Kong Code-mixing Dictionary

A contemporary Cantonese-English dictionary


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Definition: A Kongish expression used to describe someone who is so reckless that he or she is almost getting himself killed or into a big trouble.

Usage: You spent all your money on gambling? Do you know how to write the die character?!

Synonym: 你唔知個死字點寫

zero chicken egg

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

好In

Definition: 顧名思義,是形容人打扮很入時 ,即是in-fashion的意思。(Translation: To describe someone who is dressed very trendy or in fashion.)

Usage: 你今日著得好In喎。(You are dressed very in fashion today.)

Synonym: 時髦

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