Cantonese words starting with F

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Chopstick rest; a small stand used to keep chopsticks off the table.

Fai Chi Kei, a neighborhood and reclamation area in northwestern Macau.

faai3 zi2 tung2

A cylinder or container used for storing chopsticks.

Fast, speedy, and efficient.

To whisk or beat a liquid with a stick, whip, or beater.

Simplified character variant of the word for cooked rice.

A banner or streamer, typically long, narrow, and used for religious or ceremonial purposes.

Foreign; relating to foreign countries, ethnic minorities, or non-native things.

To turn over, flip, turn upside down, or turn inside out.

Foreign; non-Chinese; or a classifier for occurrences of an action or deed.

To return or go back; to head to a place one regularly visits, such as school or work.

Pirated goods; unauthorized reproductions of copyrighted products.

To give back; to return something to its owner.

An old term for a foreign country or a foreign ethnic group.

To win back one's original stake, recoup losses, or break even in gambling or investing.

To reproduce, copy, or plagiarize previous work.

To reheat leftover food, or to rehash old information or news to draw attention.

faan1 ceot1 lai4

To come back out; to emerge again.

To cover a song; to re-record or perform a song originally sung by someone else.

To bypass internet censorship, such as the Great Firewall of China.

Rumination; the act of chewing the cud, or to chew the cud.

A place where foreigners live, or a foreign country.

To relapse; to worsen again after a period of improvement from an illness or addiction.

To overturn or turn upside down.

To turn cool, windy, or breezy, especially during a change in seasons.

A bar of soap used for bathing or cleaning.

To go to work; to be at work.

To rework; to redo work that was not done properly the first time.

To go to work; to work at a designated workplace during scheduled hours to earn a living.

Foreign devil; an offensive term for a Westerner.

faan1 gwai2 lai6 zi1

Sugar-apple or cherimoya, a fruit with a bumpy greyish-green skin and white flesh.

faan1 gwai2 lou2

A Westerner; a white foreigner.

faan1 gwai2 lou2 jyut6 beng2

番鬼佬月餅番鬼佬月饼

Bored or fed-up; a pun on the English word "mooncake" which sounds like "mun6 gik6" (extremely bored).

faan1 gwai2 lou2 loeng4 caa4

番鬼佬涼茶番鬼佬凉茶

faan1 gwai2 mui6

A young female Westerner, particularly of Caucasian descent.

faan1 gwai2 po4

An foreign or Western woman.

faan1 gwai2 pou4 tou2

Wax apple; rose apple.

faan1 gwai2 zai2

A young male Westerner, typically of Caucasian descent, with slightly derogatory connotations.

To roll or tumble continuously.

faan1 gwo3 lai4

返過嚟返过嚟

To come back; to return over here.

To go back; to return to a place.

faan1 heoi3 gau6 si4 go2 dou6

返去舊時嗰度返去旧时嗰度

To go back to the old place, or to return to the old times.

faan1 hoeng1 haa2 zap1 ngau4 si2 laa1

返鄉下執牛屎啦返乡下执牛屎啦

An insult telling someone to go back to their village to pick up cow dung; go back to where you came from.

faan1 hoi1 lai4

返開嚟返开嚟

To come back over here, or to return to this side.

To go to school; to attend class.

To go to school; to attend school.