opportunity) to debase; to taunt Dialectal synonyms of 浪費 (“to waste; to squander”) [map] <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>口水 <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>心機 / <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>心机 <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>撻 / <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>挞 <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>時間 / <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>时间 <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>氣 / <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>气 <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>燈買油 / <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>灯买油 <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>聲壞氣 / <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>声坏气 大<span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>...
Sinological IPA (key): /saːi̯⁵⁵ hei̯³³/ <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>氣 (Cantonese) to waste one's breath to waste one's time and effort <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>gas (saai1 ge1 si2) <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>口水 (saai1 hau2 seoi2)...
Cantonese Pinyin: saai1 ge1 si2 Guangdong Romanization: sai1 gé1 xi2 Sinological IPA (key): /saːi̯⁵⁵ kɛː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/ <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>gas (Cantonese) synonym of <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>氣 / <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>气...
See also: <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>时间 Cantonese (Jyutping): saai1 si4 gaan3 Cantonese (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+ Jyutping: saai1 si4 gaan3 Yale: sāai sìh gaan...
Humorous phono-semantic matching of English science. Literally <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>銀時 / <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>银时 (“waste money and time”), suggesting that science is a waste of time and money...
saai1 Yale: daaih sāai Cantonese Pinyin: daai6 saai1 Guangdong Romanization: dai6 sai1 Sinological IPA (key): /taːi̯²² saːi̯⁵⁵/ 大<span class="searchmatch">嘥</span> (Cantonese) wasteful...
Likely a partial calque of Cantonese <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>氣 / <span class="searchmatch">嘥</span>气 (saai1 hei3, literally “waste air”) rather than related to Macanese sai (“to go out”). sai bafo to speak,...