Cantonese words starting with F

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凡爾賽凡尔赛

Versailles (near Paris); ostensibly modest, but in fact boastful

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凡爾丁凡尔丁

a type of plain-woven woolen fabric that is thin, stiff and smooth

to multiply; to increase gradually in number or quantity

variant of 繁衍[fan2 yan3]

to bother; to vex

many and elaborate

diverse and complicated (of one's affairs)

variant of 煩冗|烦冗[fan2 rong3]

frustrated; distressed

notes on the use of a book

barriers; fence

hedge; (fig.) barrier

common chickweed (Stellaria media)

to put sb to trouble (of doing sth); inconvenience

bird cage; confinement

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繁文縟節繁文缛节

convoluted and overelaborate (document); mumbo-jumbo

(of vegetation) lush; luxuriant

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蟠尾絲蟲蟠尾丝虫

Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial parasite worm causing "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans

faan4 mei5 si1 cung4 zing3

蟠尾絲蟲症蟠尾丝虫症

"river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans, caused by the filarial parasite worm Onchocerca volvulus

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繁忙時間繁忙时间

wordy; flourishing and thriving

variant of 繁蕪|繁芜[fan2 wu2]

depressed; unhappy; worried

troublesome; hard to tackle; complicated

reluctance to leave this world

煩心事烦心事

troubles; worries; sth on one's mind

to be very irritated ; vexed [written and colloquial]

Loaded with trivial matters

each and every; every; all; any

see 繁峙縣|繁峙县[Fan2 shi4 Xian4]

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繁峙縣繁峙县

Fanshi, a county in Xinzhou City 忻州市[Xin1 zhou1 Shi4], Shanxi

(loanword) vaseline

see 樊城區|樊城区[Fan2 cheng2 Qu1]

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樊城區樊城区

Fancheng, a district of Xiangyang City 襄陽市|襄阳市[Xiang1 yang2 Shi4], Hubei

prosperous; (of vegetation) luxuriant

tedious; fiddly

many and complicated