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飛機

简飞机 · 繁飛機

Mandarin · pinyin fēi jī

airplane
Classifier: 架 jià

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飞: fēi · fly; go quickly; dart; high
机: jī · desk; machine; moment

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1–1 · fei1 ji1

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

fei1 gei1

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

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noun

airplane; plane; aircraft (Classifier: 架 m c; 臺／台 m mn; 隻／只 mn mn-t)
(colloquial) flight (timetabled journey made by an airplane) (Classifier: 次 m c; 班 m c)
(Sichuanese) hoodlum; hooligan; street urchin

verb

(slang, neologism, euphemistic) short for 打飛機／打飞机 (dǎ fēijī, “to beat off; to masturbate”)
(informal, neologism, chiefly in the passive) to stand someone up; to fail to show up

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