打腳骨

Chinese

		beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen	bones of the foot; shank
trad. (打腳骨)		打	腳骨
simp. (打脚骨)		打	脚骨

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daa² goek³ gwat¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daa² goek³ gwat¹
    • Yale: dá geuk gwāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daa² goek⁸ gwat⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: da² gêg³ gued¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taː³⁵ kœːk̚³ kʷɐt̚⁵/

Verb

打⫽腳骨 (verb-object)

1. (Cantonese, Hakka) to rob someone on the street; to mug
   • 1912, James Dyer Ball, How to Speak Cantonese, fourth edition, Hongkong: Kelly & Walsh, pages 222–223:

     審完嗰件案之後、又有一件打脚骨嘅、有一個女人喺山路去石排灣、有幾個賊搶佢一對鍍金耳環、連埋玉耳扣、玉簪、共鈪、一啲都搶嘥佢嘅。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     审完嗰件案之后、又有一件打脚骨嘅、有一个女人喺山路去石排湾、有几个贼抢佢一对镀金耳环、连埋玉耳扣、玉簪、共𰽞、一啲都抢嘥佢嘅。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     sam² jyun⁴ go² gin⁶ on³ zi¹ hau⁶, jau⁶ jau⁵ jat¹ gin⁶ daa² goek³ gwat¹ ge³, jau⁵ jat¹ go³ neoi⁵ jan^4-2 hai² saan¹ lou⁶ heoi³ sek⁶ paai⁴ waan¹, jau⁵ gei² go³ caak^6-2 coeng² keoi⁵ jat¹ deoi³ dou⁶ gam¹ ji⁵ waan^4-2, lin⁴ maai⁴ juk^6-2 ji⁵ kau^3-2, juk⁶ zaam¹, gung⁶ aak^3-2, jat¹ di¹ dou¹ coeng² saai³ keoi⁵ ge³. [Jyutping]

     After that there was a cae of highway robbery. A woman was going over the hill to Aberdeen; and several thieves robbed her of a pair of silver-gilt earrings with jadestone drops; and jadestone hairpins and bangles were all taken from her.

2. (Cantonese) to fleece