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Haven't managed to find a usage that speaks specifically to cut or slice open a body part.

Also seeing contradictions (or perhaps information gaps) between CantoDict and Pleco.

Some notes:

  • CantoDict says '開面' means 'slice open' while Pleco describes this as a face-painting technique for Cantonese opera.
  • '切片' seems like it could apply, though Pleco suggests more of a Medical context.

How many variants can you make of "I sliced my finger" in Traditional Chinese / verbal Cantonese (slang)?

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    If you mean the act that a surgeon/doctor makes a cut to open/gain access to some tissue or organ, then it's 切開 (with Traditional characers, literally 'cut [in order] to open'). However, if you need to express that someone has cut their finger as an accident and thus got injured you would use 切傷 (literally cut [to] injure).
    – imrek
    Commented Jul 3, 2016 at 12:53
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    Being a Cantonese native speaker, I would use 戒親
    – user13501
    Commented Jul 3, 2016 at 16:31

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I would say that "開面" as "to slice open" in cantodict is wrong. Have a look at 國語辭典, these two terms are listed:

http://dict.revised.moe.edu.tw/cgi-bin/cbdic/gsweb.cgi?o=dcbdic&searchid=Z00000076573

http://dict.revised.moe.edu.tw/cgi-bin/cbdic/gsweb.cgi?o=dcbdic&searchid=Z00000099591

About "I sliced my finger", you may consider: 𠝹 (u+20779). I guess that your computer / tablet needs to have a suitable font in order to display it.

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Usage: Your colleague asked "What happened to your finger?"

Answer: "比張紙𠝹親" (Click each character for its sound file :)

Roughly, "比張紙" is "by a piece of paper"; "𠝹親" is "sliced".

Be careful :)

Edited.

Of course you can :)

"比" (u+6bd4), or "俾" (u+4ffe) are equal in this context, you can use either one, I quoted "比" just because it's simpler, has fewer strokes.

Now, here's another one: "畀" (u+7540), which is the ancestor of the above two. It existed since oracle bone script, used commonly in literatures of yore. Unfortunately, nowadays this original character is not well recognised; that's why people are using "比" or "俾" most of the time.

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  • Was able to use canjie input on my phone for '𠝹', thank you. Is '俾' a suitable replacement for '比' in this context?
    – Oiohwah
    Commented Jul 4, 2016 at 2:39
  • i edited the answer, cause it's hard to express clearly in comment :)
    – 水巷孑蠻
    Commented Jul 4, 2016 at 3:13
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    "比" ~= comparison; "畀" ~= give/allow; "俾" ~= allow/make sth happens .... These three characters have distinct usages.
    – Henry HO
    Commented Jul 5, 2016 at 10:57
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What do you mean by "to cut or slice open a body part"?

If it is a small wound, you can say "𠝹" (http://www.zdic.net/z/85/js/20779.htm) or, less commonly, "鎅" (http://www.zdic.net/z/26/js/9385.htm). e.g. "𠝹損".

If it is caused by slashes, you can say "劈" (http://www.zdic.net/z/16/js/5288.htm)

If there is a big open wound, you can say "劏" (http://www.zdic.net/z/16/js/528F.htm). e.g. "劏開"

If such body part(s) is sliced away, you can say "片" (http://www.zdic.net/z/1e/js/7247.htm), which is pronounced as pin2 (http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-can/sound.php?s=pin2) in such usage. e.g. "塊皮畀車葉片咗去" (a layer of skin is sliced away by the propellers).

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Haven't managed to find a usage that speaks specifically to cut or slice open a body part.

剖開 - cut open. Examples: 剖開胸部 (cut open the chest);剖開腹部 (cut open the abdomens)

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