Cantonese words starting with G

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A solitary hero; someone who acts alone with courage.

gu1 daam2 jing1 hung4

孤膽英雄孤胆英雄

A solitary hero; a brave person who fights alone.

Alone; lonely; being by oneself without others around.

gu1 daan1 daan1

孤單單孤单单

Alone; lonely; solitary.

Husband of father's sister; uncle by marriage.

An isolated island, or metaphorically an isolated place with nothing around it.

Lonely, lonesome, or solitary; lacking the companionship or understanding of others.

gu1 duk6 jyu1 sai3

孤獨於世孤独于世

Alone in the world.

孤獨症孤独症

Plop; thud; a splashing or dull thumping sound.

gu1 fong1 zi6 soeng2

孤芳自賞孤芳自赏

To indulge in self-admiration, self-complacency, or to be conceited.

Husband of one's father's sister; uncle.

gu1 fu2 ling4 ding1

Solitary, miserable, and without any support or family; alone and helpless.

gu1 fu2 ling4 ding1

Solitary, miserable, and helpless, with no family to rely on.

Husband of one's paternal aunt; uncle.

To fail to live up to expectations; to let someone down; to be ungrateful.

To let down, fail, or disappoint someone's hopes or expectations.

gu1 gaa1 gwaa2 jan4

An isolated person who is cut off from help or has no friends or supporters.

Aloof, proud, and distant; possessing high-minded self-reliance and unsociability.

Playful nickname for male genitalia.

A children's term for penis.

To rumble, describing the sound of an empty stomach.

Orphans and widows, or more broadly, the lonely and helpless.

Cheekbone; also refers to the ankle bone.

An isolated army fighting without help, or a person fighting alone for a cause.

gu1 gwan1 fan5 zin3

孤軍奮戰孤军奋战

To fight alone against difficult odds; to soldier on single-handedly.

gu1 gwan1 zok3 zin3

孤軍作戰孤军作战

To fight alone; to combat enemies or face adversity by oneself without any support.

Stingy, miserly, or unwilling to share or spend what one has.

gu1 hon4 coi4 zyu2

孤寒財主孤寒财主

A miser, skinflint, or Scrooge.

孤寒鐸孤寒铎

A miserly, stingy, or tightfisted person.

Miser, cheapskate, or stingy person.

孤寒種孤寒种

A miserly person who is unwilling to spend money.

gu1 hung4 ming4

辜鴻銘辜鸿铭

Ku Hung-ming (1857–1928), Malaysian writer known for his English-language works and defense of Qing dynasty monarchy.

An honorific term used by a wife's family to address her husband, or a paternal aunt's husband.

姑爺仔姑爷仔

A pimp who controls prostitutes, or a man who relies on women for financial support.

Orphan; a child who has lost both parents.

孤兒藥孤儿药

Orphan drug; a pharmaceutical agent developed specifically to treat a rare medical condition.

孤兒院孤儿院

Orphanage; an institution that provides care and education for orphans.

孤兒仔孤儿仔

An orphan, typically a young boy or used affectionately.

To wriggle or squirm about.

Guyuan, a county of Zhangjiakou in Hebei Province, China.

gu1 jyun4 jyun6

沽源縣沽源县

Guyuan, a county in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei.

Lonesome, solitary, or isolated.

gu1 kit3 dak6 laap6

To be completely alone and independent in the world.

To isolate, shun, or marginalize a person, group, or country.

gu1 laap6 mou4 wun4

孤立無援孤立无援

Isolated and without help; completely cut off from assistance.

Soliton; a self-reinforcing solitary wave packet that maintains its shape while it propagates at a constant velocity.

gu1 laap6 zi2 bo1

Instanton in mathematics and physics.

Ignorant, shallow, and ill-informed.

gu1 lau6 gwaa2 man4

孤陋寡聞孤陋寡闻

Ignorant and ill-informed; having shallow knowledge and limited experience, usually used as a self-deprecating polite expression.