Cantonese words starting with G

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几够
gei2 gau3very; quite
纪检
gei2 gim2disciplinary inspection
己见
gei2 gin3one's own viewpoint
几经
gei2 ging1to go through numerous (setbacks, revisions etc)
几个
gei2 go3a few; how many
几个钟
gei2 go3 zung1several hours
杞国
gei2 gwok3the State of Qǐ in modern Qǐ county 杞縣|杞县, Henan (c. 1500-445 BC), a small vassal state of Shang and Western Zhou for most of its existence
杞国忧天
gei2 gwok3 jau1 tin1see 杞人憂天|杞人忧天[Qi3 ren2 you1 tian1]
杞国之忧
gei2 gwok3 zi1 jau1see 杞人之憂|杞人之忧[Qi3 ren2 zhi1 you1]
几系
gei2 hai6seems so; seem a lot
几系㗎
gei2 hai6 gaa3yes, indeed; (to agree with someone on something)
几希
gei2 hei1not much
几许
gei2 heoi2(literary) how many
几可乱真
gei2 ho2 lyun6 zan1to seem almost genuine
几何
gei2 ho4geometry
几何光学
gei2 ho4 gwong1 hok6geometric optics
几何学
gei2 ho4 hok6geometry
几何原本
gei2 ho4 jyun4 bun2Euclid's "Elements"
几何级数
gei2 ho4 kap1 sou3geometric series
几何级数增长
gei2 ho4 kap1 sou3 zang1 zoeng2exponential increase
几何量
gei2 ho4 loeng6geometric quantity
几何平均数
gei2 ho4 ping4 gwan1 sou3geometric mean
几何拓扑
gei2 ho4 tok3 pok3(math.) geometric topology
几何拓扑学
gei2 ho4 tok3 pok3 hok6(math.) geometric topology
gei2 hoi6thirty-sixth year F12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1959 or 2019
几好
gei2 hou2quite good
几好吖嘛
gei2 hou2 aa1 maa3doing well?
杞人忧天
gei2 jan4 jau1 tin1lit. like the man of 杞[Qi3] who feared the sky would fall (idiom)
杞人之忧
gei2 jan4 zi1 jau1lit. the fear held by a man of 杞[Qi3] that the sky would fall (idiom)
几日
gei2 jat6A few days
gei2 jau5forty-sixth year F10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1969 or 2029
gei2 jing4 gon1 jim4hepatitis F
纪要
gei2 jiu3minutes
几样
gei2 joeng6several kinds
几欲
gei2 juk6almost
几远
gei2 jyun2quite far
纪元
gei2 jyun4calendar era
纪元前
gei2 jyun4 cin4before the common era (BC)
纪元后
gei2 jyun4 hau6A.D (anno Domini)
杞县
gei2 jyun6Qi County or Qixian, a county in Kaifeng City 開封市|开封市[Kai1 feng1 Shi4], Henan
纪律
gei2 leot6discipline
纪律部队
gei2 leot6 bou6 deoi2Disciplinary Forces
纪律处分
gei2 leot6 cyu2 fan1Disciplinary measures
纪律检查委员会
gei2 leot6 gim2 caa4 wai2 jyun4 wui2Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CCP
纪录
gei2 luk6variant of 記錄|记录[ji4 lu4] (but in Taiwan, not for the verb sense "to record")
纪录片
gei2 luk6 pin2newsreel; CL:部[bu4]
gei2 maau5sixteenth year F4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1999 or 2059
几米
gei2 mai5Jimmy Liao (1958-), pen name of 廖福彬[Liao4 Fu2 bin1], Taiwanese illustrator and picture book writer
gei2 mei6fifty-sixth year F8 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1979 or 2039
几难先至
gei2 naan4 sin1 zi3to describe something is hard to come by, difficult to achieve

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