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廢柴

简 废柴 · 繁 廢柴
Mandarin · pinyin fèi chái

Meanings

  1. (Cantonese) (coll.) good-for-nothing
  2. loser
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廢
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柴
chái · firewood, faggots, fuel
废
fèi · abrogate, terminate, discard
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4–2 · fei4 chai2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

fai3 caai4

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

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fai3 caai4

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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

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noun

  1. (originally Cantonese) worthless person; useless person; good-for-nothing (Classifier: 條／条 c)
  2. (Cantonese) Chef (a character from South Park) in the Cantonese dub of the show.

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