雞腸

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Chinese

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fowl; chicken intestines
trad. (雞腸/鷄腸) /
simp. (鸡肠)
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The loopy letters of cursive handwriting looked like chicken intestines to Cantonese people who could not understand English.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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雞腸

  1. chicken intestines (Classifier: m c;  m)
  2. (Cantonese, figurative) foreign language written in cursive Latin alphabet, especially English

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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