P U5

secondary school; middle school

(zung hok)

[1] [n, adj] centre; middle; inside 

[2] [adv] during; among; in the process of 

[3] [n] medium; average; halfway 

[4] [n] shortened form of China

(zung)

piano (pianoforte)

(gong kam)

(1) steel, (2) sharpen; whet; strop

(gong)

office | Less formal alternative: 寫字樓

(baan gung sat)

[1] [v] manage; handle; deal with; attend to; transact [2] [v] try and punish [3] [v] purchase

(baan)

[1] [v] manage; handle; deal with; attend to; transact [2] [v] try and punish [3] [v] purchase

(baan)

[1] [n] room; home; house; chamber; apartment [2] [n] wife

(sat)

[1] office block; office tower [2] office | Std.: 辦公室

(se zi lau)

[1] [n] word; letter; character; word; logograph; glyph [2] [v] betroth a girl [3] name or style taken at the age of 20, by which one was sometimes called [4] Chinese character with more than one component, cf. 文

(zi)

[1] quiet(ly); still; motionless; gentle; calm; tranquility; silent [2] peaceful; harmonious; serene [3] virtuous; chaste

(zing)

relatives; relations

(can cik)

[2] [Cantonese] [Hakka] [final particle] transforms statements into questions that indicate doubt or surprise

What?

(me)

What else?

(zung jau me aa?)

Similar, almost alike.

Understood to mean that there are tiny differences between the two objects compared, but they are similar for the most part. 

差 and 唔 are often slurred together.

(caa m do)

[1] in the middle; between two entities [2] second (in order of birth) [3] brothers [4] a Chinese family name

仲 is sometimes used as a phonetic substitute for 重 (meaning "still; more") when there is unawareness that the literary pronunciation [zung6] of 重 can equally be used in everyday speech.

(zung)

to go to school

(faan hok)

"Is that OK?;  Will that do? Is this all right?”, Are you happy with that?

The reply will invariably be "得" or "唔得".

(dak m dak aa?)

I see you at central. (We are going to meet at central) 

(Ngoh deih jat cai hai zung waan gin min)

now and then; occasionally

(noi m noi)

[1] [v] fear; dread; afraid; scared or frightened; apprehensive [2] maybe; perhaps; I am afraid ...; I suppose

(paa)

to be afraid of, to fear

(fong paa)

[1] panicky; flustered; flurried; confused
[2] [國] (used after 得 as a complement) unbearable

(fong)

[1] observatory
[2] [粵]: slang for a lookout or a scout for an illegal operation

(tin man toi)

Hong Kong Observatory

(hoeng gong tin man toi)

already | [粵]: also 經已

(ji ging)

[1] already [2] [v] come to an end; finish; complete; finished [3] [v] stop; cease [4] used to indicate the past [5] excessive; very; much [6] a final particle to add emphasis

(ji)

already (also 已經)

(ging ji)

already underway; already in progress

(ji ging zeon haang)

[1] to advance; to progress; to go forward [2] to do; to execute; to carry out; to undertake; to embark on; to carry on; to conduct; to implement [3] underway; in progress; on-going

(zeon haang)

calm down (usually refer to temperament)

(laang zing di)

to waste time

(saai si gaan)

I can't waste even a second.

Lit. I one second also cannot waste

(nogh jat miu dou m ho ji saai)

[1] is it or is it not?; to be or not to be |

2](rhetorical - pronounced /isn't it?; is it? |

[3] often contracted to 係咪

(hai m hai)