肉赤

Chinese

		meat; flesh	red; scarlet; bare red; scarlet; bare; naked
simp. and trad. (肉赤)		肉	赤
alternative forms		肉刺
anagram		赤肉

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): juk⁶ cek³

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: juk⁶ cek³
    • Yale: yuhk chek
    • Cantonese Pinyin: juk⁹ tsek⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: yug⁶ cég³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊk̚² t͡sʰɛːk̚³/

Verb

肉赤

1. (Cantonese) to hate to give up; to be unwilling to let go of; to begrudge

   今日買股票輸咗成萬蚊，好肉赤呀！ [Cantonese, trad.]
   今日买股票输咗成万蚊，好肉赤呀！ [Cantonese, simp.]

   gam¹ jat⁶ maai⁵ gu² piu³ syu¹ zo² seng⁴ maan⁶ man¹, hou² juk⁶ cek³ aa³! [Jyutping]

   Today I lost ten thousand dollars in stocks. How painful!

Synonyms

• 不捨得／不舍得 (bùshěde)
• 勿捨得／勿舍得 (⁸veq ¹so-teq) (Wu)
• 吝惜 (lìnxī)
• 唔捨得／唔舍得 (m⁴ se² dak¹) (Cantonese, colloquial)
• 心疼 (xīnténg)
• 捨不得／舍不得
• 捨勿得／舍勿得 (⁵so-veq-teq) (Wu)
• 𣍐出得／𫧃出得 (Hokkien)
• 𣍐省得／𫧃省得 (mài-sǎng-dă̤) (Northern Min)
• 毋甘 (Hokkien, Teochew)
• 肉痛 (ròutòng) (regional)