Category:English terms calqued from Cantonese

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Newest pages ordered by last category link update:
  1. add oil
  2. hill fire
  3. your face, your fate
  4. two-dish rice
  5. how see
  6. Diamond Hill
  7. blow water
  8. no eye see
  9. collect skin
  10. add value machine
Oldest pages ordered by last edit:
  1. so fashion
  2. chase the dragon
  3. add value machine
  4. collect skin
  5. no eye see
  6. hill fire
  7. blow water
  8. two-dish rice
  9. your face, your fate
  10. lightbulb

English terms that were calqued from Cantonese, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of Cantonese terms.

To categorize a term into this category, use {{cal|en|yue|source_term}} (or {{clq|...}} or {{calque|...}}, using the same syntax), where source_term is the Cantonese term that the term in question was borrowed from.