Cantonese words starting with A
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aai1 man4
埃文
Evan; Ivan
aai1 man4 ho4 bun6 si1 dak6 laai1 dak6 fuk1
埃文河畔斯特拉特福
Stratford-upon-Avon
aai1 man4 si1
埃文斯
Evans; Ivens
aai1 mun4
挨門挨门
from door to door, one by one
aai1 ngo6
挨餓挨饿
to go hungry; famished
aai1 nin4 gan6 maan5
挨年近晚
close to end of (lunar) year
aai1 nip6 aa3 si1
埃涅阿斯
Aeneas, hero of Virgil's Aeneid
aai1 nip6 aa3 si1 gei2
埃涅阿斯紀埃涅阿斯纪
Virgil's Aeneid (epic about the foundation of Rome)
aai1 ou3 lo4 si1
埃奧羅斯埃奥罗斯
Aeolus, Greek God of winds
aai1 peng1
挨屏
chairs' backrest
aai1 ping3
挨拼
the back of a chair
aai1 sam1
埃森
Essen, city in the Ruhr 魯爾區|鲁尔区[Lu3 er3 Qu1], Germany
aai1 sam1 naap6 haak1
埃森納赫埃森纳赫
Eisenach (German city)
aai1 sam1 zit3
埃森哲
Accenture (company)
aai1 seng1 taan3 hei3
唉聲嘆氣唉声叹气
sighing voice, wailing breath (idiom); to sigh in despair
aai1 si1 dak6 haa1 cai4
埃斯特哈齊埃斯特哈齐
Esterhazy (name)
aai1 si1 dak6 long5
埃斯特朗
Anders Jonas Angstrom or Ångström (1814-1874), Swedish physicist
aai1 si1 fu3 do1
埃斯庫多埃斯库多
escudo, former currency of Portugal and other countries
aai1 si1 fu3 lo4 si1
埃斯庫羅斯埃斯库罗斯
Aeschylus (c. 524 BC -c. 455 BC), Greek tragedian, author of The Persians, Seven against Thebes etc
aai1 si4 gaan3
挨時間挨时间
to stall
aai1 taap3
埃塔
ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna or Basque homeland and freedom), Basque armed separatist group
aai1 tau4 zi2
挨頭子挨头子
to be criticized
aai1 tek3
挨踢
information technology (IT) (loanword)
aai1 wu6
挨戶挨户
from house to house, one by one
aai1 zai1
挨擠挨挤
to crowd together; squeezed
aai1 ze2
唉姐
granny (dialect)
aai1 zeoi6
埃敘埃叙
Egypt-Syria
aai1 zoek6
挨著挨着
near
aai2
欸
exclamation Eh!
aai2
矮
low; dwarf
aai2
誒诶
hey (to express surprise)
aai3
嗌
to quarrel; to yell; to order (food); to greet; ask someone to go somewhere
aai3
隘
a strategically located pass; narrow
aai3
餲
spoiled; moldy
aai3 gaai1 po2
嗌街婆
a woman who shouts
aai3 gaau1
嗌交
(verb) to argue; to quarrel
aai3 guk1
隘谷
ravine
aai3 hau2
隘口
mountain pass
aai3 je5 sik6
嗌嘢食
to order food (eat out)
aai3 lou6
隘路
defile; narrow passage
aai3 mat1 ceon1 aa3
嗌乜春呀
what's with the yelling
aai3 /ngaai3
噫
ngaai3}
aai3 ngoi6 maai6
嗌外賣嗌外卖
to order a takeway [colloquial]
aai3 saang1 aai3 sei2
嗌生嗌死
shouts to live, shouts to die; which means crying and wailing madly
aai3 saang1 saai3
嗌生晒
be noisy, shouting annoyingly
aai3 saap3
嗌霎
quarrel; argument (spoken)
aai3 sou3
嗌數嗌数
to number off loudly; to report numbers loudly, such as auctioneers reading out bids loudly; waiters in restaurants reporting accounts loudly
aai3 tung1 gaai1
嗌通街
a person who likes to shout and scream
aai6
砹
astatine (chemistry)
aak1
厄
distressed; difficulty