Cantonese words starting with C

8,852 entries

To withdraw cash

To take a sample; to sample.

To access, take and use, or consume.

To please, flatter, or try to win the favor of someone.

ceoi2 kei4 zing1 waa4

取其精華取其精华

To extract the essence; to take the best parts.

ceoi2 kei4 zing1 waa4 ，heoi3 kei4 zou1 pok3

取其精華，去其糟粕取其精华，去其糟粕

To adopt the best parts and discard the useless elements; to be selective when studying.

To depend on or be decided by a certain condition or factor.

To seek amusement, make fun of, or make yourself happy.

To marry a woman; to take a wife.

To admit, recruit, or accept someone into an organization.

To name someone or something.

Modulo; the mathematical operation that finds the remainder after division.

To deliberately stir up trouble or cause a scene.

To withdraw money from a bank.

To warm oneself; to seek warmth.

ceoi2 sam1 pou5

To take a daughter-in-law; for one's son to marry.

To choose or make a trade-off; to select what to keep and what to abandon.

To draw, fetch, or intake water.

To win trust or inspire confidence.

娶媳婦娶媳妇

To get married to a wife.

To win, especially in a competition or a contest, or to gain victory.

To cancel or call off a planned event or arrangement.

To laugh at, tease, or make fun of someone.

To replace, supersede, or supplant.

To retrieve; to get back; to recover.

To remove, take away, or carry off.

ceoi2 zi1 bat1 zeon6

取之不盡取之不尽

Inexhaustible; limitless; an endless supply.

ceoi2 zi1 bat1 zeon6 ，jung6 zi1 bat1 kit3

取之不盡，用之不竭取之不尽，用之不竭

An inexhaustible, limitless supply.

To collect evidence.

To spit, to sip, or the sound of sipping.

Sledge or sled; a vehicle used for sliding on snow or rough ground.

Fine animal hair, down, or fur; also used to mean crisp or fragile.

To temper metal by dipping it into water; to dye, soak, or alter.

Bluish-green; emerald green.

Brittle, crisp, or crunchy.

To look, watch, or stare.

ceoi3 bok1 bok1

Crispy or crunchy, typically describing fried or baked food.

To spy on; to keep a close watch on someone's movements.

Crispy, crunchy, or flaky.

ceoi3 ceoi3 dei2

Tactfully and willingly, especially in taking the initiative to do what is appropriate in a situation.

ceoi3 ceoi3 ngaan5

覷覷眼觑觑眼

Myopia or shortsightedness.

ceoi3 cing1 se4

Greater green snake (Entechinus major), a species of non-venomous snake.

Chips Ahoy!; a popular brand of chocolate chip cookies.

To be careless, inattentive, or negligent.

To quench; a metal heat treatment process where heated metal is cooled rapidly to harden its surface.

ceoi3 gam1 gyun1

翠金鵑翠金鹃

Asian emerald cuckoo (Chrysococcyx maculatus).

ceoi3 gei1 wui6

覷機會觑机会

To watch for or seek an opportunity.

ceoi3 guk1 lok6

脆穀樂脆谷乐

Cheerios breakfast cereal.

ceoi3 gun3 juk6

Peyote, a small spineless cactus native to North America (Lophophora williamsii).

Strange but interesting, amusing, or intriguing.