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Definition: Made popular by an anti-drug advertisement featuring Hong Kong celebrity Aaron Kwok, this is a code-mixing term that native Hong Kongers use with the Cantonese word '嘢', which means 'take drugs' altogether, even though 'take嘢' literally means 'take thing'.
Usage: E.g. 保安局禁毒宣傳品出現「公關災難」，令「一齊企硬 唔take嘢」標語，在柱面上呈現「齊企硬 Take嘢」。There was a "PR disaster" in the Security Bureau's anti-drug promotional materials, which caused the slogan "Stand firm together, don't take any drugs" to be presented as ""Stand firm together and Take Drugs".
Synonym: take嘢, take drugs
Reference: https://www.instagram.com/p/DWGb-PriJLK/?igsh=b3Vwa2xmNHFuZ2Qz (use mobile version)
Definition: A code-mixing term that native Hong Kongers use to describe people who are really just minding their own business but not necessarily alone or single.
Usage: E.g. 呢間bar啲人點呀？係唔係個個都好individual咁樣呀？ (How are the people in this bar? Are they all really just minding their own business?)
Synonym: 單獨
Reference: https://www.threads.com/@matthew_lam1116/post/DAcSyqdScem?hl=zh-hk
Definition: A romanised code-mixing phrase that Hong Kong expats use to tell someone to hurry up. The particle 'la' is often added for emphasis.
Usage: Fai di la! The bus is here!
Synonym: 快D啦
Reference: https://geoexpat.com/forum/53/thread22332-2.html
Definition: A romanised code-mixing term that foreignised Hong Kongers use when they want to say ‘yes’ to someone.
Usage: Hong Konger: Are you a gweilo? Foreigner: Hai.
Synonym: 係
Definition: Pronounced with a rising tone on the second syllable, this is a code-mixing term that refers to 'calculator'. Also used as 'cal機' sometimes.
Usage: E.g. 唔該借個cal機比我呀？ E.g. 試下用caltor check吓個answer。
Synonym: 計數機
Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uik5GWvXiLA&t=210s
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
Definition: Translated from the punning of ‘粟米肉粒飯’ (shuk mai yuk lup fan), this is a Kongish code-mixing term that refers to a rice dish with creamed corn and pork served in Hong Kong Cha Chaan Tang restaurants.
Usage: E.g. Excuse me, may I have a ‘show me your love rice’?
Synonym: 粟米肉粒飯
Reference: https://hklanguage.home.blog/2019/11/12/kongish-a-new-language-of-hong-kongers/
Definition: (textspeak) A Kongish code-mixing term used by local student Hong Kongers to refer to attending a lesson. (上堂 )
Usage: E.g. Nei gum yat sheung ng sheung tong ar? (你今日上唔上堂呀？)
Synonym: 上堂
Reference: https://hklanguage.home.blog/2019/11/12/kongish-a-new-language-of-hong-kongers/
Definition: A code-mixing term that only upper class Hong Kongers know how to use to refer to a meal where people serve themselves the food because of the French origin of the word which makes it so hard to pronounce properly.
Usage: E.g. A: 放假不如食buffet呀？B: 你指蒲飛？(A: What about eating buffet during holiday? B: You mean po-fei?)
Synonym: 蒲飛
Reference: https://hk.news.yahoo.com/生日飯-餐廳-推介-推薦-生日餐廳-235652146.html
Definition: A code-mixing term that is often used by Hong Kongers instead of '在家工作'.
Usage: E.g. 我今日真係爽呀，可以work from home。成日煲netflix都得啦！
Synonym: 在家工作