Cantonese words starting with C

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尋短見寻短见

to commit suicide

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尋花問柳寻花问柳

lit. to enjoy the beautiful spring scenery (idiom); to sow one's wild oats

lit. sinking and floating; ebb and flow; ups and downs of fortune

to inquire after

尋呼機寻呼机

to seek pleasure (esp. sexual)

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尋歡作樂寻欢作乐

pleasure seeking (idiom); life of dissipation

verb; to search for the root, normally used for people finding out their family background and history

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尋根究底寻根究底

verb; to make a thorough investigation, to search or get to the root of thing, to inquire deeply into

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尋根問底寻根问底

lit. to examine roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth

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尋根溯源寻根溯源

see 追根溯源[zhui1 gen1 su4 yuan2]

to look for an opportunity

to subside; subsidence

chronic illness

to sink; to cave in; (of a building etc) to subside

Chinese eaglewood; agarwood tree; lignum aloes (Aquilaria agallocha)

尋開心寻开心

to pick a quarrel

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尋釁滋事罪寻衅滋事罪

disorderly behavior (PRC law)

stagnant; fig. grave in manner

see 潯陽區|浔阳区[Xun2 yang2 Qu1]

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潯陽區浔阳区

Xunyang, a district of Jiujiang City 九江市[Jiu3 jiang1 Shi4], Jiangxi

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沉魚落雁沉鱼落雁

lit. fish sink, goose alights (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3]); fig. female beauty captivating even the birds and beasts

to seek; to look for

deep growling thunder

to sink into (vice, depravity etc); downfall; passing

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尋來範疇寻来范畴

(math.) derived category

蕁麻疹荨麻疹

urticaria; hives

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尋晚黑寻晚黑

to be engrossed; to lose oneself in

silence; silent

taciturn; silent

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habitually silent (idiom); uncommunicative

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silence is golden (idiom)

to think sth over

(verb) Seek for

deeply immersed; deeply engrossed in

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to wallow in alcohol and sex (idiom); overindulgence in wine and women

to look for; to probe

oppressive (of weather); depressed; (of sound) dull