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吊兒郎當 (diu3 ji4 long4 dong1) — to dilly-dally; take a careless and casual attitude in Cantonese

diu˗₃吊jiˎ₄兒longˎ₄郎dongˉ¹當
简 吊儿郎当
Mandarin Pinyin: diao4 er5 lang2 dang1

Meaning of 吊兒郎當

nounto dilly-dally; take a careless and casual attitude

Characters in 吊兒郎當

吊diu3
suspend; hang; dangle
兒ji4
final particle / suffix, placed after many commonly used nouns to avoid employing one-syllable terms in speech (very common in the Beijing dialect 北京話, see: 兒化, 兒化韻)
郎long4
young man; husband; beau; son of another person
當dong1
should; ought to; must

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