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beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen |
to manage; to heed; to put in order to manage; to heed; to put in order; reason; logic; science; inner principle or structure |
simp. and trad.
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Pronunciation
Verb
打理
- to arrange; to handle
- to run; to operate; to manage (a business, enterprise, etc.)
- (Cantonese, obsolete in Hong Kong) to care; to concern oneself with
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佢唔肯嚟。唔打理佢肯唔肯。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]- keoi5 m4 hang2 lai4. m4 daa2 lei5 keoi5 hang2 m4 hang2.
- He is unwilling to come. Never mind whether he is willing or not.
1910, James Dyer Ball, edited by Immanuel Gottlieb Genæhr, A Chinese Dictionary in the Cantonese Dialect, revised and enlarged edition, Hongkong: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, page 681:
你有你，我有我，使乜你打理我呢 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]- nei5 jau5 nei5, ngo5 jau5 ngo5, sai2 mat1 nei5 daa2 lei5 ngo5 ni1
- Mind your own business, and let me mind my own, why should you trouble about me?
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