Cantonese words starting with C

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Vocabulary; words; lexicon.

Vocabulary; the collection of words and phrases in a language.

詞彙學词汇学

Lexicology; the branch of linguistics that studies the vocabulary of a language.

To rush to the rescue; to hurry to render assistance.

To relax, or relaxation, particularly in a physics or physiological context.

Slow, sluggish, or delayed.

To delay, lag, or move slowly.

Chizhou, a prefecture-level city in Anhui Province, China.

Chizhou, a prefecture-level city in Anhui Province, China.

To politely decline or turn down an offer, invitation, or gift.

Word order; the sequential arrangement of words in a sentence.

An affix; a bound morpheme added to a word stem to form a new word.

ci4 zi1 ji5 hang4

持之以恆持之以恒

To persevere; to persist; to stick to something with determination.

A pond, or the dance floor of a ballroom.

To resign; to quit a job or voluntarily leave one's position.

Jishō-ji, a Zen temple in Kyoto, Japan, commonly known as Ginkaku-ji (the Silver Pavilion).

Parterre; the ground floor seats in a theater or auditorium.

Poetry and prose; literary composition or writing.

ci4 zoeng1 jit6

弛張熱弛张热

Remittent fever; a fever in which the body temperature fluctuates but does not return to normal.

Phrase; a grammatical unit consisting of one or more words.

Flowery, ornate, or rhetorical language.

Beautiful, ornate language, rhetoric, or literary embellishments.

Sooner or later; eventually; almost certain to happen at some point.

To continue, persist, or go on steadily; continuously.

Word family; a group of cognate words within a given language.

ci4 zuk6 si4 gaan3

持續時間持续时间

Duration; the length of time that something continues.

ci4 zuk6 sing3 zik6 mat6 jan4 zong6 taai3

持續性植物人狀態持续性植物人状态

Persistent vegetative state.

ci4 zuk6 sing3 zik6 mat6 zong6 taai3

持續性植物狀態持续性植物状态

Persistent vegetative state.

An ordinary person of no particular talent or ambition.

Prudent and cautious, or to hold an important office.

Lawsuit; litigation.

詞訟費词讼费

Legal fees; litigation costs.

Ceramic tiles, typically glazed and used for walls and floors.

To look like, resemble, or seem to be.

Wife of a husband's older brother; also a surname.

To stand tall; to tower; to pile up.

To rely on, abuse, or take advantage of one's strengths, traits, or status.

Persimmon; a type of fruit.

A stream that branches off and then flows back into the main river.

Zhi, the name of an ancient river and a city in Henan province, China.

ci5 cang4 cang4

似層層似层层

Highly convincing or plausible, often of a vivid, detailed description that seems true even if it may be false.

ci5 cang4 soeng1 sik1

似曾相識似曾相识

To feel familiar; to seem to have met or seen before, as in déjà vu.

ci5 coi4 ngou6 mat6

To be inordinately proud of one's talents and contemptuous of others.

Used after a noun, pronoun, or verb to indicate similarity; like, as if, or similar to.

ci5 dung2 fei1 dung2

To not fully understand; to seem to understand but not actually do so.

Seemingly, as if, or appearing to be.

Nucleoid of a prokaryotic cell.

Looking similar to something else, or looking decent and acceptable without obvious flaws.

ci5 koeng4 hei1 joek6

恃強欺弱恃强欺弱

To bully the weak; to use one's strength or power to mistreat those who are vulnerable.