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Meaning of kan cheong | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2
[ˌk˭än˧ ˈt͡ʃ˭jɔŋ˦]

Definitions

Nervous, anxious, keyed up

Manglish, Singlish

Examples

“I was so ‘kancheong’ (Cantonese for worried) about his tests that I woke him up at 5:30 am to remind him not to make mistakes.”
“I wasn’t always this kan cheong about elections.”
“[…] they will just become more kan cheong and think that all the mata and SCDF kena nuked or something […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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