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釣魚
简 钓鱼 · 繁 釣魚Mandarin · pinyin diào yú
Meanings
- to fish (with line and hook); to angle
- (fig.) to entrap
- (Tw) to repeatedly nod one's head while dozing
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4–2 · diao4 yu2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
diu3 jyu2 · diu3 jyu4
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verb
- (verb-object) to fish; to angle
- (figurative) to dupe; to trick; to deceive; to catfish
- (figurative, of the police) to entrap someone; to enforce the law by framing a case against the captured
- (computing, figurative) to phish
- (Cantonese, Taiwan, figurative) to nod off; to doze off (in class, meeting, etc. and lower and raise the head cyclically, like the tip of a fishing rod)
- (intransitive, Internet slang, figurative) to troll
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