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垃圾

Mandarin · pinyin lā jī

trash
refuse
garbage
(coll.) of poor quality
Taiwan pr. lè sè

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垃: lā · garbage, refuse, waste
圾: jī · garbage, rubbish; shaking; danger

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1–1 · la1 ji1

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

laap6 saap3

Cantonese word readings for 垃圾. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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noun

(literally) garbage; rubbish; trash; waste; refuse; junk
(figuratively) rubbish (a valueless thing)
(computing, Internet, prefix) junk messages; spam; unsolicited messages

adj

(colloquial) very bad; rubbish

adj

(Hakka, Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien, Teochew) dirty; unhygienic
(Mainland China Hokkien) low and cheap; substandard and vile
(Hakka) haunted

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