乜鬼
Chinese
| squint; (dial.) what | ghost; sly; crafty | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (乜鬼) | 乜 | 鬼 | |
Pronunciation
Noun
乜鬼
- (Cantonese, emphatic) what; what the hell
- 1975, 許冠傑, 薛志雄 (lyrics), “天才與白痴”, in 天才與白痴, performed by 許冠傑:
- 乜鬼係天才？乜鬼係白痴？ [Cantonese, trad.]
- Mat1 gwai2 hai6 tin1 coi4? Mat1 gwai2 hai6 baak6 ci1? [Jyutping]
- What the hell is a genius? What the hell is an idiot?
乜鬼系天才？乜鬼系白痴？ [Cantonese, simp.]
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Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 什麼 (“what”) [map] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Variety | Location | Words edit |
| Classical Chinese | 何 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 什麼 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 什麼 |
| Taiwan | 什麼 | |
| Tianjin | 嘛 | |
| Harbin | 啥 | |
| Shenyang | 什麼, 啥 | |
| Jinan | 麼兒, 麼, 什麼 | |
| Muping | 麼, 麼個 | |
| Luoyang | 啥 | |
| Wanrong | 色 | |
| Xi'an | 啥 | |
| Xining | 啥 | |
| Xuzhou | 啥, 啥子 | |
| Yinchuan | 啥 | |
| Ürümqi | 啥 | |
| Wuhan | 麼事 | |
| Chengdu | 啥, 啥子 | |
| Guiyang | 哪樣 | |
| Liuzhou | 什嗎 | |
| Kunming | 什麼 | |
| Nanjing | 什麼 | |
| Hefei | 哄個 | |
| Nantong | 甚呢 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 乜, 乜嘢, 乜嘢嘢, 咩, 咩嘢, 乜鬼 emphatic |
| Hong Kong | 乜, 乜嘢, 乜嘢嘢, 咩, 咩嘢 | |
| Taishan | 乜 | |
| Dongguan | 乜, 乜嘢 | |
| Yangjiang | 乜, 乜嘢 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 什哩 |
| Lichuan | 什仔 | |
| Pingxiang | 咋個 | |
| Hakka | Meixian | 麼個 |
| Xingning | 麼個 | |
| Huidong | 麼個 | |
| Qujiang | 麼個 | |
| Xiaosanjiang | 麼個 | |
| Changting | 麼個 | |
| Pingyu | 麼個 | |
| Wuping | 麼個 | |
| Liancheng | 麼個 | |
| Yudu | 子個 | |
| Ruijin | 咩, 唔幾 | |
| Shicheng | 什麼 | |
| Shangyou | 哪項, 口哪 | |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 麼個 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 麼個 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 麼個 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 麼個 | |
| Hsinchu (Raoping) | 麼個 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 麼個 | |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 麼仂 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 甚 |
| Xinzhou | 甚 | |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 孰事, 孰麼 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 什乇, 什名, 什乇名, 面乇名 |
| Matsu | 什乇 | |
| Min Nan | Xiamen | 什物, 啥物, 啥貨 |
| Quanzhou | 什物, 啥物, 乜 | |
| Zhangzhou | 哪貨仔, 哪貨, 哪仔, 哪物仔, 哪物, 什物, 啥物, 啥貨 | |
| Taipei | 啥貨, 啥物, 啥 | |
| Kaohsiung | 啥, 啥貨, 啥物 | |
| Tainan | 啥物, 啥貨 | |
| Taichung | 啥 | |
| Hsinchu | 啥 | |
| Lukang | 啥物, 啥貨 | |
| Sanxia | 啥 | |
| Yilan | 啥貨 | |
| Kinmen | 啥貨, 啥物, 物代 | |
| Magong | 啥貨, 物代 | |
| Penang | 何物 | |
| Singapore | 什物 | |
| Philippines (Manila) | 啥物 | |
| Chaozhou | 乜個, 乜 | |
| Haikou | 乜, 個乜 | |
| Leizhou | 乜 | |
| Pinghua | Nanning | 門, 哪門 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 啥, 啥個 |
| Suzhou | 啥 | |
| Hangzhou | 啥 | |
| Wenzhou | 何呢 | |
| Chongming | 何 | |
| Danyang | 點高 | |
| Jinhua | 待, 淡 | |
| Ningbo | 啥 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 麼子 |
| Shuangfeng | 麼子 | |
| Loudi | 麼子 | |