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Cantonese word of the day · 25 September
肥過
fei4 gwo3Jyutping
fatter than
街市肉檔今日塊五五分五花腩，睇落肥過尋日嗰塊好多喎。
gaai1 si5 juk6 dong3 gam1 jat1 faai3 ng5 ng5 fan1 ng5 faa1 naam4, tai2 lok6 fei4 gwo3 cam4 jat1 go2 faai3 hou2 do1 wo3.
The cut of half-fat, half-lean pork belly at the wet market meat stall today looks a lot fatter than the one yesterday, mind you.
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- 比佢 by him / by her / by it
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- 食飯 to eat a meal / to have dinner
- 返工 to go to work / to be at work
- 我 I / me
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- 喜劇 comedy film / comedy
- 高過 taller than / higher than
- 紅雨 Red Rainstorm Signal
- 個 general classifier / person or abstract noun marker
- 緊 progressive aspect marker
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