Cantonese words starting with C

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Wife; a polite or literary term for a spouse.

To rest, inhabit, live in seclusion, or stay temporarily.

棲息地栖息地

Habitat; the place where animals live and breed.

Sad, fearful, and distressed, often due to hardship or misfortune.

Wife; a man's formal female spouse.

To brew, especially to brew tea with hot water.

To build, put together, or assemble separate parts into a whole.

To brew tea in a traditional, ceremonial way.

To defeat or beat someone thoroughly, leaving them unable to fight back.

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砌幾圈砌几圈

To play a few rounds of mahjong.

cai3 saang1 zyu1 juk6

砌生豬肉砌生猪肉

To frame someone, fabricate a charge, or falsify evidence against a suspect.

cai3 sap6 wok6 baat3 wok6

砌十鑊八鑊砌十镬八镬

To have sex several times in a row.

Bricklaying; the trade or skill of building structures with bricks and mortar.

Water chestnut.

Together; doing something collectively with a common purpose.

Complete and ready; having everything needed in good condition.

To walk in step; to keep pace; describing steps being synchronized.

Together; doing an action or activity collectively with others.

齊葺葺齐葺葺

Very even, tidy, neat, and uniform.

Complete; having everything that is needed or a wide variety of choices.

cai4 dung1 je5 jyu5

齊東野語齐东野语

A cock-and-bull story; absurd and unfounded words.

cai4 paak3 lam4 fei1 syun4

齊柏林飛船齐柏林飞船

Led Zeppelin, a British rock band.

Of one mind; sharing the same goal or ideal and working together towards it.

cai4 sam1 luk6 lik6

齊心戮力齐心戮力

To make a concerted effort; to pull together and work towards a common goal.

In unison or in chorus; speaking or singing the same thing together.

Rounded to a neat, even number, especially of a sum of money to simplify change or make it auspicious.

cai4 tau4 bing6 zeon3

齊頭並進齐头并进

To multi-task; to carry out several tasks simultaneously.

齊頭數齐头数

A round number; a rounded-off figure.

cai4 tin1 daai6 sing3

齊天大聖齐天大圣

"Great Sage, Equal to Heaven", an epithet of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King from the novel Journey to the West.

To gather or assemble together in the same place at the same time.

To play instruments in unison in an ensemble.

Neat, tidy, organized, and orderly.

Toilet; lavatory; washroom; a place where people relieve themselves.

Compassion; a feeling of pity and a desire to help when seeing others' misfortune.

To survey, measure, or gauge, especially to accurately record things like terrain or buildings.

To allow others to join in an activity.

A type of cassia tree.

To infringe on, violate, or intrude upon someone's rights or interests.

cam1 faan6 baan2 kyun4

侵犯版權侵犯版权

Copyright infringement; the unauthorized use of copyrighted material.

To invade and attack.

To encroach upon, trespass, or violate.

To invade, intrude, or trespass.

To trespass, encroach, or intrude upon.

To infringe on someone's rights, such as intellectual property rights through plagiarism.

To invade, aggress, or use military force to seize control of another territory.

cam1 loek6 zin3 zang1

侵略戰爭侵略战争

War of aggression; a war of invasion.

To erode or corrode; to wear down gradually by natural forces such as wind or water.

To erode or corrode.

To annex, embezzle, or seize other people's property or land using illegitimate means.