Cantonese words starting with F

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to go to one's school or office; added after a verb to imply that the action is for the better or is with good intentions

musk duck (spoken)

faan1 baak6 ngaan5

to roll one's eyes

(noun) Counterfeit

faan1 baan2 dip2

(old) foreign land

(verb) get back or obtain back what someone's has lost (usually it refers to money)

reproducing; copying from previous (spoken)

to capsize and sink

翻車魚翻车鱼

ocean sunfish (Mola mola)

faan1 ceot1 lai4

to come back out [colloquial]

to cover (a previously recorded song)

lit. to climb over the wall

(old) Western-style food

foreigner place

type of machete used by Taiwan aborigines, worn at the waist in an open-sided scabbard

to overturn; to capsize

to flip over; to scroll (an electronic document); to move things about

time and time again

having the same illness again; recurring illness

to renege; to back out (of a promise)

to overturn (a vehicle); to capsize; to turn upside down

wind is picking up (spoken)

to browse and select

to plow; to turn the soil

faan1 gan1 dau2

faan1 gan1 dau2

to turn a somersault

faan1 gan1 tau4

翻跟頭翻跟头

to turn a somersault

faan1 gau6 zoeng3

翻舊賬翻旧账

to turn over old accounts; to reopen old wounds

to rummage; to leaf through

flip-top (mobile phone, handbag etc); to renovate

faan1 gong1 dou2 hoi2

lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom); earth-shattering

going to work (spoken)

to retract a confession or testimony

(dialect) pumpkin

the slang for a 'white westerner'

faan1 gwai2 lai6 zi1

sugar-apple (fruit)

faan1 gwai2 lou2

(noun) Western people; a Westerner; a foreigner

faan1 gwai2 lou2 jyut6 beng2

番鬼佬月餅番鬼佬月饼

(homophone) boring

faan1 gwai2 lou2 loeng4 caa4

番鬼佬涼茶番鬼佬凉茶

(metaphor) beer

faan1 gwai2 mui6

young western female (spoken)

faan1 gwai2 po4

(noun) a Western lady