Category:English terms calqued from Cantonese

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

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 source-language term that the term in question was borrowed from.


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