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Chinese
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beef
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dry; clean; male dry; clean; male; strong; one of the Eight Trigrams; surname |
| trad. (牛肉乾)
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牛肉
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乾
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| simp. (牛肉干)
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牛肉
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干
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Etymology
- “parking ticket”
- According to information from Hong Kong Police's official Facebook page, parking tickets were written on carbon paper (過底紙／过底纸 (gwo3 dai2 zi2)), which resembled a piece of dried beef. Also, the value of a parking ticket at that time was almost worth a pound of dried beef.
Pronunciation
Noun
牛肉乾
- dried beef; beef jerky; bakkwa (Classifier: 塊／块 m c)
以前僑生回港，大都喜歡買廣式口味的永來香牛肉乾。 [MSC, trad.]
以前侨生回港，大都喜欢买广式口味的永来香牛肉干。 [MSC, simp.]- From: 1986, 彭家發, 《特寫寫作》, Taipei: 臺灣商務印書館, →ISBN, page 274
- Yǐqián qiáoshēng huígǎng, dàdōu xǐhuān mǎi Guǎngshì kǒuwèi de Yǒngláixiāng niúròugān.
- Before, when overseas students return to Hong Kong, most of them like to buy Cantonese-style Yung Lai Shiang beef jerky.
- (Cantonese, figurative) parking ticket (legal summons) (Classifier: 張／张 c; 疊／叠 c)
所以佢冇同大家Farewell，自己喺舞池跳佢啲核突老派茶舞自High，相信佢Take咗嘢進入咗個忘我狀態，街邊部SLK應該要泊過夜，咁又坐底三張牛肉乾。 [Cantonese, trad.]
所以佢冇同大家Farewell，自己喺舞池跳佢啲核突老派茶舞自High，相信佢Take咗嘢进入咗个忘我状态，街边部SLK应该要泊过夜，咁又坐底三张牛肉干。 [Cantonese, simp.]- From: 2016, 于日辰, 倫敦金2之《潛龍勿用》, Hong Kong: 點子出版, page 397
- so2 ji5 keoi5 mou5 tung4 daai6 gaa1 fe1 weu1, zi6 gei2 hai2 mou5 ci4 tiu3 keoi5 di1 wat6 dat6 lou5 paai3 caa4 mou5 zi6 haai1, soeng1 seon3 keoi5 tik1 zo2 je5 zeon3 jap6 zo2 go3 mong4 ngo5 zong6 taai3, gaai1 bin1 bou6 SLK jing1 goi1 jiu3 paak3 gwo3 je6-2, gam2 jau6 zo6 dai2 saam1 zoeng1 ngau4 juk6 gon1.
- That's why he didn't say farewell to everyone and was excited on his own, dancing his cringy old-timey tea dance by himself on the dance floor. It seems like he took some drugs and was completely absorbed. His SLK at the side of the street probably needs to be parked overnight, which means at least three parking tickets.
Synonyms
- (parking ticket): 告票 (gou3 piu3), (Malaysian Cantonese) 沙晚