Cantonese words starting with C

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To wear or put on clothing.

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

To have a secret revealed, usually unintentionally.

cyun1 dou2 fong1 zi2

川島芳子川岛芳子

Yoshiko Kawashima; the prominent Manchu princess and spy.

A countryman; a rustic man living in a village.

A woman living in a rural village.

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.

cyun1 hung2 gei1

穿孔機穿孔机

Hole puncher; paper punch.

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

cyun1 jyut6 si4 hung1

穿越時空穿越时空

To travel through time and space; to transcend temporal and spatial boundaries.

cyun1 lau4 bat1 sik1

Flowing continuously like a stream; never-ending or in a constant, bustling stream.

To have a hole worn or torn through something.

Villager; a person who lives in a village.

cyun1 saan1 gaap3

Pangolin, or a nickname for the Rural Patrol Team of the Hong Kong Police Force.

cyun1 sam1 bin1

穿心邊穿心边

The 'heart' radical when written as the vertical three-stroke component (忄) on the left of a Chinese character.

To shuttle back and forth; to travel regularly between two places.

穿梭機穿梭机

Space shuttle; a reusable spacecraft launched by rockets and landing like an airplane.

To penetrate or pass through an obstacle to enter a place.

Village house; a small, independent house located in a rural area or village.

cyun1 zam1 jan5 sin3

穿針引線穿针引线

To act as an intermediary, middleman, or matchmaker to bring parties together.

cyun1 zau1 gwo3 saang2

穿州過省穿州过省

To travel across many states and provinces, or to maintain extensive connections all across a region.

To have a secret exposed or let out.

The head or chief of a village.

cyun1 zok6 fu6 wui6

穿鑿附會穿凿附会

To give a forced interpretation or draw far-fetched analogies.

Village or hamlet; a rural settlement where people live together in close proximity.

To pant; to breathe heavily.

To ponder, consider, or speculate.

To sneak away; to escape or leave somewhere secretly, like a thief.

Mistaken, contradictory, or going against.

Error; mistake or mishap.

To guess, speculate, or surmise based on little evidence or clues.

To pant, gasp, or breathe heavily.

To try to fathom, figure out, or carefully weigh and consider.

To gasp or pant for breath; to catch one's breath or take a brief respite.

To connect or string together.

Arrogant, cocky, or condescending.

Anxious; apprehensive; worried.

To throw, rush, hurry, or urge.

A tiny step; a single step or an inch of progress.

cyun3 bou6 bat1 lei4

寸步不離寸步不离

To follow closely without leaving someone's side, or to have a very close relationship.

cyun3 bou6 naan4 hang4

寸步難行寸步难行

To find it extremely difficult to take even a single step, physically or metaphorically.

cyun3 cou2 bat1 lau4

To leave absolutely nothing; to completely destroy, kill everyone, and leave not even a single blade of grass.

cyun3 cou2 bat1 sang1

Barren and lifeless; a state where not even a blade of grass can grow.

cyun3 cou2 ceon1 fai1

寸草春暉寸草春晖

A child's gratitude is insufficient to repay the immense love of their parents.

cyun3 dak1 hei2

To have the right to be arrogant or boastful because one actually has the ability or merits to back it up.

寸到嘔寸到呕

To be extremely arrogant, conceited, or insolent.

cyun3 dou3 fei1 hei2

寸到飛起寸到飞起

Extremely arrogant, insolent, or cocky.