激死

激死

Chinese

Etymology 1

		to infuriate	to die; impassable; uncrossable to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid
trad. (激死)		激	死
simp. #(激死)		激	死

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gik¹ sei²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gik¹ sei²
    • Yale: gīk séi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gik⁷ sei²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gig¹ séi²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɪk̚⁵ sei̯³⁵/

Verb

激死

1. (Cantonese, intransitive) to be extremely annoyed; to be angry; to be mad
2. (Cantonese, transitive) to annoy; to anger; to madden

   真係激死我！／真系激死我！ [Cantonese]  ―  zan¹ hai⁶ gik¹ sei² ngo⁵! [Jyutping]  ―  Dang, [it, you, …] piss[es] me off!

   激死人呀！ [Cantonese]  ―  gik¹ sei² jan⁴ aa³! [Jyutping]  ―  So infuriating!

Synonyms

• 氣死／气死 (qìsǐ)

Etymology 2

		to submerge in water	to die; impassable; uncrossable to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid
trad. (激死)		激	死
simp. #(激死)		激	死

Pronunciation

• Min Nan (Teochew, Peng'im): gêg⁴ si²

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• Min Nan
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: gêg⁴ si²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kek sí
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kek̚²⁻⁴ si⁵²⁻²¹/

Verb

激死

1. (Teochew) to drown

References

• Lim, Hiong Seng (1886), “A Dictionary of some of the more important words in the Swatow dialect”, in Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular, Singapore: Koh Yew Hean Press