Cantonese words starting with F

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苦瓜噉面苦瓜啖面

To have a miserable or scowling expression; to pull a long face.

苦瓜乾苦瓜干

A sad, gloomy, or long face, resembling a dried bitter melon.

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苦瓜乾噉口面苦瓜干啖口面

To pull a long face; to look miserable, worried, or deeply unhappy.

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苦瓜乾咁樣苦瓜干咁样

To pull a long face, having a miserable or scowling expression.

苦瓜臉苦瓜脸

A sour expression on one's face; a miserable, frowning, or long face.

Tiger bone, used as an ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine.

Bitter fruit; a metaphor for painful or disastrous consequences.

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苦過弟弟苦过弟弟

Extremely miserable, hard, or full of suffering.

To have difficulty getting by; to live a hard and miserable life.

Polha, a historical place in the Joseon dynasty province of Hamgyeong.

To look down from a high place; to overlook.

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俯瞰攝影俯瞰摄影

Crane shot; a camera shot taken from a high angle, often using a crane or boom.

俯瞰圖俯瞰图

Bird's-eye view; an aerial view or overhead diagram.

Ascetic practice; religious practices of self-mortification or severe self-discipline.

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苦行贖罪苦行赎罪

Penance; to perform ascetic practices to atone for sins.

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Amygdalin; a naturally occurring chemical compound found in plants, particularly bitter almonds and fruit stones.

Bitter to the taste; having a bitter flavor.

A tiger's mouth; a place of extreme danger; or the web of the hand between the thumb and index finger.

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To look miserable, worried, or gloomy; to wear a bitter, distressed expression.

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苦口苦麵苦口苦面

To have a miserable, sad, or worried facial expression.

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虎口餘生虎口余生

To narrowly escape a crisis or survive a major disaster.

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To advise or persuade someone earnestly, patiently, and with good intentions.

虎起臉虎起脸

To look displeased, pull a long face, or put on a stern expression.

The abyss of misery or suffering; in Buddhism, the sea of suffering that is the real world.

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The sea of bitterness is vast and boundless.

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苦海無邊，回頭是岸苦海无边，回头是岸

The sea of bitterness has no bounds, turn back to see the shore; repent and find salvation.

Affliction or the cause of suffering.

Hard times; a period of difficult or impoverished living.

Tiger Hill, a historic hill and scenic spot in Suzhou.

虎丘區虎丘区

Huqiu, a district of Suzhou City in Jiangsu province.

Forced labor; penal servitude.

Torture, severe punishment, or physical abuse.

Prison or jail.

To look down and up; representing one's behavior, actions, or a fleeting moment.

To foster, bring up, or rear and nurture a child until adulthood.

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撫養費抚养费

Child support payment, typically after a divorce.

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撫養權抚养权

The legal right to raise and care for a child; custody.

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俯仰無愧俯仰无愧

To have a clear conscience; to look up and down without shame.

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撫養成人抚养成人

To bring up a child to adulthood.

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俯仰之間俯仰之间

In a flash; in the blink of an eye.

To nurture, raise, and educate a person from childhood until they are independent.

苦肉計苦肉计

An act of self-torture or self-harm to gain sympathy or trust; a self-torture ruse.

To suffer from, be troubled by, or find something difficult to cope with.

Fuyuan, a county-level city in Heilongjiang, China.

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撫遠三角洲抚远三角洲

Bolshoi Ussuriisk Island, a large river island at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers.

A tiger's den; figuratively used to describe a highly dangerous place.

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斧鉞湯鑊斧钺汤镬

Battle-ax and boiling cauldron; facing torture and execution.

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斧鉞之誅斧钺之诛

To be executed, or to die by battle-ax.

To play the zither.