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Chinese
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- Hakka
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Taichung, Yilan, Hsinchu, Jinjiang, Philippines)
- (Hokkien: Taipei, Magong, Penang)
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Lukang, Sanxia, Kinmen, Hsinchu, Singapore)
- (Teochew)
- Wu
Noun
鹹魚
- salted fish (Classifier: 條／条 m c)
鹹魚雞粒炒飯
咸鱼鸡粒炒饭 - haam4 jyu4-2 gai1 lap1 caau2 faan6
- fried rice with salted fish and diced chicken
- (Cantonese, colloquial, figurative) zombie; corpse (Classifier: 條／条 c)
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做人如果冇夢想，同條鹹魚有咩分別呀？
做人如果冇梦想，同条咸鱼有咩分别呀？ - zou6 jan4 jyu4 gwo2 mou5 mung6 soeng2, tung4 tiu4 haam4 jyu4-2 jau5 me1 fan1 bit6 aa3?
- Being a man without a dream, what's the difference with a salted fish/dried corpse?
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) passenger (bus-driver jargon)
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of
鹹魚 (“salted fish”)
Derived terms