香港中英夾雜字典

定義: A code-mixing term that Hong Kong salesman love to use as a strategy to advertise their products without sounding like they're doing it for the sake of spreading the word or selling their product.

用法: E.g. 我地公司兒家做緊promotion。你唔買就走寶喇喂。(Our company is now doing promotion. If you don't buy, you'll miss out.)

同義詞: 宣傳，推廣

參考: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340689372_Code-Mixing_as_a_Promotion_Strategy_in_Shopping_Centres

定義: A code-mixing term used by overseas educated Hong Kongers when they want to ask for a deeper analytical understanding of something.

用法: E.g. 你睇完本書有咩insight? (What insights do you have after reading the book?)

同義詞: 見解; 睇法

參考: https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/pure-data/pub/202301935/202301935_1.pdf

定義: (Kongish) When something goes completely wrong. Or doesn't work out (fail, flop)

用法: Sei fo! We didn't prepare for the presentation today. It was a total flop!

同義詞: 死火

定義: (verb) This is an Englishised Cantonese word that refers to slacking off or having nothing to do.

用法: E.g. 哇！今日返工真係好hea呀！E.g.唔洗咁急。Hea下先再做野啦。

參考: https://zolimacitymag.com/pop-cantonese-hea-chok-chur/

定義: A romanised code-mixing phrase used by Hong Kong expats when they want to order something in a restaurant but don't know how to read a menu.

用法: E.g. Mm goi waiter! Ni gor please!

同義詞: 呢個, this

參考: https://www.timeout.com/hong-kong/travel/basic-cantonese-phrases-every-traveller-to-hong-kong-needs-to-know

定義: A code-mixing term that Hong Kongers like use to refer to marking or jotting things down. (標記）

用法: E.g. 記住mark低個schedule比我睇吓先。阿媽：老師上堂講既野有冇mark低呀？

定義: (verb) A code-mixing term used by local Hong Kong students to refer to a less physical directing of attention onto something. Sometimes, it may be used in order to avoid sounding like one has ADHD.

用法: E.g. 老師，我頭先focus唔到聽書，可唔可以再講多次？(Teacher, I really can't focus on listening to your lecture. Can you repeat again?)

同義詞: 專注; 集中

參考: https://www.instagram.com/p/CynQSwpSd-P/?img_index=5 (使用手機版本)

定義: Derived from ‘笑死’ (laugh die), this is a Kongish code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers on the internet when they want to laugh out loud, just like LOL in English.

用法: E.g. This comedy movie was so funny! Siu4!

參考: https://www.timeout.com/hong-kong/things-to-do/cantonese-internet-and-texting-slang-to-use-right-now

定義: A Kongish code-mixing phrase that working class Hong Kongers use when they are scared and freaked out by something.

用法: E.g. Scare die me! You are so early in office today?!

同義詞: 嚇死我

參考: https://graduate.ctgoodjobs.hk/article/20239/2025職場英語-別再說-LIST-OUT-10大常見港式英語錯誤-外國人都聽唔明-4個戒掉港式英語必學的商業用語及常用英式廣東話一覽

定義: A code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers to refer to socialising with people when they are too tired of '應酬' in Cantonese where one is eating, drinking or entertaining clients for the sake of establishing business relations.

用法: E.g. 曾經諗過改 逼自己扮social 但最後發現乜都唔理做番自己最舒服 唔洗夾硬逼自己扮哂野去應酬人 (I once thought about forcing myself to pretend to be social, but in the end I found that I didn't need to care about anything but being myself was the most comfortable. I didn't have to force myself to pretend to be social to entertain people.)

同義詞: 應酬

參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/310048/page/3