Cantonese words starting with B

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to pay a formal visit; to pay homage (at a monument, mausoleum etc)

George Byron (1788-1824), English poet

baai3 mat6 gaau3

to call to pay one's respect

baai3 ngau5 zoeng6

to worship idols

to pay a New Year call

baai3 nin4 kaat1

Greeting cards for new year

to canvass for votes (Tw)

(v.)(n.) to visit ancestral graves to pay respects by cleaning and sweeping the graves, worshipping and burning joss paper.

baai3 san1 saan1

visiting the graveyard that the deceased that just passed away within a year

baai3 san4 m4 gin3 gai1

拜神唔見雞拜神唔见鸡

verb; literally: worship god without chicken

congratulate an elderly person on his birthday

to formally become an apprentice to a master

see 拜城縣|拜城县[Bai4 cheng2 Xian4]

baai3 sing4 jyun6

拜城縣拜城县

Baicheng, a county in Aksu Prefecture 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区[A1 ke4 su1 Di4 qu1], Xinjiang

baai3 tin1 dei6

to worship heaven and earth; also called 拜堂

to request sb to do sth

ritual kneeling to heaven and earth by bride and groom in a old-fashioned wedding ceremony

(often used in the context of diplomacy) to meet with; to pay a visit to; to call on

to worship; to pay one's respects (to one's ancestors etc)

baai3 zim1 ting4

baai3 zim1 ting4 dai3 gwok3

拜占庭帝國拜占庭帝国

The Byzantine Empire

a zabuton, a mat for kneeling

to pay respects during a festival

baai3 zou2 sin1

to visit one's ancestors' graveyard

(bound form) to chant (from Sanskrit "pāṭhaka")

to defeat; to lose (to an opponent); to wither; treaty); ruin ; defeated; torn; faded

(literary) to be routed (in a war)

a faulty stroke in calligraphy or painting

baai6 bing1 zit3 zoeng3

敗兵折將败兵折将

to suffer a major defeat resulting in the loss of many soldiers and generals

(TCM) to relieve inflamation and internal heat

relieve inflammation or internal heat

spending extravagantly and wasting one's family's financial resources

baai6 gaa1 zai2

敗家仔败家仔

prodigal son (spoken)

敗家子败家子

spendthrift; wastrel; prodigal

baai6 gaa1 zing1

敗家精败家精

prodigal person (spoken)

to squander one's fortune

sepsis; septicemia; unfavourable for the qi and blood

baai6 hyut3 beng6

敗血病败血病

noun; septicemia

baai6 hyut3 zing3

敗血症败血症

baai6 lau5 caan4 faa1

敗柳殘花败柳残花

broken flower, withered willow (idiom); fig. fallen woman

scum of a community

(of status or wealth) to decline; run-down

(of a plot etc) to fall through and stand exposed