leng zai
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.12 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
adj
handsome; good-looking (of a man)
Example Sentences
- "Even hardened gangsters teasingly addressed him as leng zai or 'pretty boy' and told him to marry their daughters so they would have grandchildren as cute as he was."
- "'So, you got talk to the leng zai or not?' 'I talked to all of them. They're all —' But Auntie Fong had only one of them on her mind. 'So that leng zai, you think he's chup or not?' 'Which one ah?' 'The tall one lah! Sound like ang moh.'"
- "And whenever he visited he'd bring food from the kopitiam next door, and Mrs Wong would laugh and say aiyoh, leng zai, so sweet.[…]He could see her mother's mouth widen with laughter as she called him leng zai, could just about picture the colour on her painted nails as she passed around the lo mai gai he'd bought for the other aunties to eat."
- "S2: then i plan lah maybe thirty minutes later lah i will go then the invigilator is too too leng zai {cantonese: handsome} ah i don't dare to ask you know"
Etymology
Inflected Forms
leng zais (plural)
more leng zai (comparative)
most leng zai (superlative)