無情雞

mou4 cing4 gai1

a pink slip (historically, at the last official dinner banquet before Chinese New Year, if the boss gives an employee a piece of chicken it is a hint that he · she will soon receive a letter of dismissal)

2 Written Forms

Meanings

  1. a pink slip (historically, at the last official dinner banquet before Chinese New Year, if the boss gives an employee a piece of chicken it is a hint that he
  2. she will soon receive a letter of dismissal)

Written Forms

無情雞Traditional · Main Form
无情鸡Alternate Form

CC-Canto and the CC-CEDICT Cantonese readings are copyright (c) 2015-17 Pleco Software Incorporated, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. CC-CEDICT is copyright its maintainers, with portions from the original CEDICT database copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Paul Andrew Denisowski, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Filtered, regrouped by canonical lemma, and reformatted as an immutable web projection. Source gloss text is not rewritten.

View Source CC BY-SA 3.0