adorable (loanword from Japanese 萌え moe, slang describing affection for a cute character)
Definitions (CC-CANTO)
to sprout/to bud/to have a strong affection for (slang)/adorable (loanword from Japanese 萌え moe, slang describing affection for a cute character)/to harbour (thought)/beginnining/initial/initiation
Definitions (粵典–words.hk)
語素
植物開始生出莖部,可以比喻事情喺起步階段 to bud; to sprout
萌生
萌生
mang4 sang1 to grow
萌芽
萌芽
mang4 ngaa4 to bud; to sprout
形容詞、外來語、日本、潮語
好可愛同得人鍾意,令到睇到嗰個人有種熱血湧上嚟嘅感覺;多數係御宅族用嚟形容自己鍾意嘅動漫角色(尤其係女性角色) moe; cutesy and heart-warming
貓耳娘真係好萌啊!
猫耳娘真系好萌啊!
maau1 ji5 noeng4 zan1 hai6 hou2 mang4 aa3! Catgirls are so cute!
Definitions (Wiktionary)
character
to begin; to start (syn.) 发轫, 肇始, 发端, 起手, 發軔, 伊始, 起头, 起頭, 開始, 開首, 發端, 權輿, 开始, 肇端, 开首, 起始, 权舆
character
to bud; to sprout; to germinate (syn.) 爆穎, 必笋, 發芽, 绽笋, 生芽, 萌發, 暴笋, 綻筍, 生笋, 出苗, 暴筍, 抽筍, 萌动, 必筍, 出芽, 發穎, 權輿, 发芽, 萌動, 暴芽, 出息, 抽笋, 抽芽, 必目, 爆芽, 权舆, 发颖, 萌发, 露苗, 生筍, 萌芽, 爆颖
The nerd A-chung acts like he is counting the treasures at his home when he's talking about Moe anime girls. (i.e., he's very familiar with Moe anime girls.)
Cantonese
萌生
萌生
mang4 sang1
to grow
Examples (Wiktionary)
Mandarin
他们在某些方面也爱工农兵,也爱工农兵出身的干部,但有些时候不爱,有些地方不爱,不爱他们的感情,不爱他们的姿态,不爱他们的萌芽状态的文艺(墙报、壁画、民歌、民间故事等)。
他們在某些方面也愛工農兵,也愛工農兵出身的幹部,但有些時候不愛,有些地方不愛,不愛他們的感情,不愛他們的姿態,不愛他們的萌芽狀態的文藝(牆報、壁畫、民歌、民間故事等)。
tā men zài mǒu xiē fāng miàn yě ài gōng nóng bīng , yě ài gōng nóng bīng chū shēn de gàn bù , dàn yǒu xiē shí hou bù ài , yǒu xiē dì fang bù ài , bù ài tā men de gǎn qíng , bù ài tā men de zī tài , bù ài tā men de méng yá zhuàng tài de wén yì ( qiáng bào , bì huà , mín gē , mín jiān gù shi děng ) .
In certain respects they are fond of the workers, peasants and soldiers and the cadres stemming from them; but there are times when they do not like them and there are some respects in which they do not like them: they do not like their feelings or their manner or their nascent literature and art (the wall newspapers, murals, folk songs, folk tales, etc.).
Mandarin
中国封建社会内的商品经济的发展,已经孕育着资本主义的萌芽,如果没有外国资本主义的影响,中国也将缓慢地发展到资本主义社会。
中國封建社會內的商品經濟的發展,已經孕育着資本主義的萌芽,如果沒有外國資本主義的影響,中國也將緩慢地發展到資本主義社會。
zhōng guó fēng jiàn shè huì nèi de shāng pǐn jīng jì de fā zhǎn , yǐ jīng yùn yù zhe zī běn zhǔ yì de méng yá , rú guǒ méi yǒu wài guó zī běn zhǔ yì de yǐng xiǎng , zhōng guó yě jiāng huǎn màn de fā zhǎn dào zī běn zhǔ yì shè huì .
As China's feudal society had developed a commodity economy, and so carried within itself the seeds of capitalism, China would of herself have developed slowly into a capitalist society even without the impact of foreign capitalism.
Mandarin
在进行伪声学习的过程中,受访者黑不尽的夜和腐女宅萌沬对自身的性别问题进行过深度的思考。
在進行偽聲學習的過程中,受訪者黑不盡的夜和腐女宅萌沬對自身的性別問題進行過深度的思考。
zài jìn xíng wěi shēng xué xí de guò chéng zhōng , shòu fǎng zhě hēi bù jìn de yè hé fǔ nǚ zhái Méng沬 duì zì shēn de xìng bié wèn tí jìn xíng guò shēn dù de sī kǎo .