烧腊

barbecue (Cantonese style)

to burn / to cook / to stew / to bake / to roast / to heat / to boil (tea, water etc) / fever / to run a temperature / (coll.) to let things go to one's head

dried meat / also pr. [xi2]

old variant of 臘|腊[la4] / 12th lunar month

12th lunar month / preserved (meat, fish etc)

old variant of 臘|腊[la4]

ancient practice of offering sacrifices to the gods in the 12th lunar month / the 12th lunar month / (bound form) (of meat, fish etc) cured in winter, esp. in the 12th lunar month