Cantonese words starting with C

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cyu5 seoi2 gun2

儲水管储水管

Standpipe; a water storage and distribution pipe system used for firefighting in a building.

cyu5 seoi2 soeng1

儲水箱储水箱

Water storage tank.

The light of early dawn.

Prism or cylinder; a three-dimensional solid with identical, parallel bases.

A bank depositor.

Pillar, post, or column.

To store value; to pre-load money into a ticket, card, or account for future use.

cyu5 zik6 kaat1

儲值卡储值卡

Stored-value card; a prepaid card where funds are loaded in advance and deducted during purchases.

儲值票储值票

Stored-value ticket or card

cyu5 zing1 nong4

儲精囊储精囊

Seminal vesicle.

River or plain; also the Kangxi radical 47.

Village; a traditional settlement where people live together.

To blanch; to cook food briefly in boiling water and then remove it.

To wear or put on clothing.

To leap up or jump.

A housing estate, especially a public rental housing estate built in a dense, uniform style.

To have a secret exposed, or to show a continuity error or goof in a movie or TV show.

To jump up; to leap.

To pierce one's nose, or to have a nose piercing.

To have a secret, trick, or scheme exposed, or to make a blunder on stage or screen.

To have a secret revealed, usually unintentionally.

Sichuan fritillary bulb, used in traditional Chinese medicine.

To insert, interweave, or alternate; a subplot or episode in a story.

To puncture, or to perform a needle biopsy.

Sichuan or Szechuan cuisine

To dress; to wear clothes, hats, or accessories.

Sichuan codonopsis, a species of codonopsis whose root is used in traditional Chinese medicine.

cyun1 dong2 sam1

川黨參川党参

Sichuan codonopsis; the root of Codonopsis pilosula used in traditional Chinese medicine.

cyun1 dou2 fong1 zi2

川島芳子川岛芳子

Yoshiko Kawashima; the prominent Manchu princess and spy.

To have a hole through something, or to pierce a hole.

cyun1 dyun1 hong1 sing4

Kawabata Yasunari, a Japanese writer and Nobel laureate in literature.

To put on or wear clothes inside out, backward, or on the wrong foot.

A product in great demand.

cyun1 fong4 jyut6 zek3

躥房越脊蹿房越脊

To leap onto rooftops and scale walls, describing the agile movements of thieves or martial artists in fiction.

A countryman; a rustic man living in a village.

cyun1 gam1 daai3 ngan4

穿金戴銀穿金戴银

Richly bedecked; dripping with gold and silver.

A woman living in a rural village.

Job's tears; a tall, grain-bearing tropical plant of the grass family.

Chuanxiong rhizome; the root of Szechuan lovage used in traditional Chinese medicine.

cyun1 gwai6 tung2 dai2

穿櫃桶底穿柜桶底

To embezzle or steal money from one's employer; to have one's finger in the till.

To pass through, cross, or go across.

To pass through, go through, or thread one's way through.

Village school; a small, traditional school in a village.

cyun1 hot3 tau4 saan1 zoek3

川褐頭山雀川褐头山雀

Sichuan tit (Poecile weigoldicus), a bird species endemic to China.

To punch a hole or perforate.

cyun1 hung2 gei1

穿孔機穿孔机

Hole puncher; paper punch.

cyun1 jat1 tiu4 fu3 zi2

穿一條褲子穿一条裤子

To have been through thick and thin together, sharing the same view of things.

To put on clothes; to get dressed.

To travel across or traverse; especially to travel through spacetime or cross boundaries.