Cantonese words starting with G

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gam3 zi2 tung1 hang4

No entry; no thoroughfare; passage prohibited.

Not easily done; difficult to accomplish.

To ground someone, or to forbid them from leaving a specific area.

To completely ban, prohibit, or eradicate.

To press, hold down, or suppress.

To press with fingers or hands; to lead on or trick someone.

To press down with a finger or apply physical pressure onto something.

To withdraw money from an automatic teller machine (ATM).

To withdraw money from an ATM, or to blackmail someone for money.

gam6 dei6 jau4 seoi2

撳地游水揿地游水

To play it safe or act with extreme caution.

Drawing pin; thumb tack.

To withdraw money from an ATM.

To withdraw money from an automated teller machine (ATM).

To make tactical changes in a sports game, usually involving substitutions.

撳鷓鴣揿鹧鸪

To cheat someone out of a large sum of money, especially a woman swindling a gullible man.

㩒鷓鴣㩒鹧鸪

To cheat; to swindle or trick someone out of something.

To ring a doorbell; to press a buzzer or bell.

To ring the bell; to press a doorbell or call button.

㩒住頭㩒住头

To do something continuously without looking up; to be totally immersed in a task.

Funny or amusing.

A piece of cloth or other material used for wiping, wrapping, or covering.

Catty, a traditional East Asian unit of weight.

Root of a plant, used for support and absorbing nutrients.

Tendon, sinew, or blood vessel.

A unit of weight equal to one catty, or physical strength.

To follow behind, or to come with as an accompaniment.

An attendant, subordinate staff member, or lackey who follows and serves someone.

To work as a footman, or to understudy an opera actor.

gan1 bat1 soeng5

To be unable to keep up with, fall behind, or lag behind.

Since the very beginning; from the start. Also used to mean 'simply', 'utterly', or 'at all' in negative contexts.

gan1 bun2 faat3

Fundamental law, such as a constitution.

gan1 bun2 soeng6

Fundamentally; basically; at its root.

Stubble; the short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.

An attendant, follower, or servant.

To eradicate thoroughly; to root out or completely eliminate something.

To follow behind physically, or to comply with and obey someone's wishes.

In front of someone or something, or nearby in one's presence.

To follow, obey, or be subservient to.

gan1 daai6 deoi2

跟大隊跟大队

To go along with the majority, usually without holding a strong personal stance.

gan1 daai6 lou2

To follow a triad boss as a disciple or subordinate.

Foundation; the established basis of a skill or field of knowledge.

Foundation, root, or basis of something.

gan1 dak1 fu1 jan4

A wife who constantly follows her husband everywhere.

Ghent, a city in Belgium.

Somersault or tumble.

Somersault; a gymnastics move where a person jumps and rotates vertically in the air before landing on their feet.

筋斗雲筋斗云

Somersault Cloud; the magical cloud ridden by Sun Wukong in Chinese mythology.

To jump on the bandwagon; to blindly follow a trend or copy others.

gan1 gan1 gaau3 loeng6

斤斤較量斤斤较量

To bicker at length over trivial matters; to haggle over every penny.