Cantonese words starting with H

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To deceive, hoodwink, or lie to someone.

To cheat, hoax, or deceive someone by acting friendly or coaxing them.

To roar with laughter; for a group of people to burst out laughing together.

To artificially inflate prices or drive up market values.

hung6 toi4 mat6 gaa3

哄抬物價哄抬物价

To artificially inflate or drive up prices, especially through speculation or monopolistic behavior.

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To burst into laughter together; the whole room laughing out loud.

To make a racket, shout, or speak loudly.

Graceful; clever.

Curled up; a scroll or variant form of a scroll.

Genial and warm; cozy.

A wooden bowl or vessel.

An alternative form of the character 諼, meaning untrue or deceitful.

To wash; to apply ink or watercolor to a painting to create a graduated effect.

A Chinese surname, transliterated as Xuan in Mandarin or Huen in Cantonese.

Flirtatious; coquettish.

Daylily; a character used in personal names.

To deceive, cheat, or forget.

hyun1 ban1 dyut6 zyu2

喧賓奪主喧宾夺主

To allow a minor or secondary element to overshadow the primary one; a guest usurps the host's role.

Orange daylily (Hemerocallis fulva); tawny daylily.

To enclose or fence in land to claim ownership or control over it.

hyun1 dei6 wan6 dung6

圈地運動圈地运动

The Enclosure Movement.

To mark a text with dots and circles to indicate punctuation, pronunciation, or key passages.

To shout loudly or create an uproar.

Distinguished, prominent, or of great renown and influence.

To clamor, make noise, or be extremely loud and bustling.

To draw a circle, or a circle itself.

hyun1 hyun1 dim2 dim2

圈圈點點圈圈点点

To make annotations or markings in a book, or figuratively to offer opinions and criticize everything.

To disturb or harass with noise.

To speak very loudly or make a racket.

To be noisy, chaotic, or make a racket.

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Outsider; someone who is not part of a particular group, trade, or industry, especially the entertainment circle.

Among insiders or within a specific community, especially in show business circles.

To make a tumult, uproar, or clamor.

Soft and fluffy, or soft and warm, especially of bread or baked goods.

Honorific term for one's mother or another's mother.

Trap or snare; a setup designed to trick or harm someone.

To make noise, clamor, or talk so loudly that it disturbs others.

hyun1 waa1 jyu5 sou1 dung6

喧嘩與騷動喧哗与骚动

The Sound and the Fury, a novel by William Faulkner.

Social circle; a group of people with common interests, views, or other shared traits.

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圈狀物圈状物

A hoop, ring, or any ring-shaped object.

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An insider; someone within a particular industry or social circle, especially the entertainment business.

The Kangxi radical 94 representing 'dog'.

Canine tooth; one of the four pointed teeth next to the incisors used for tearing food.

The canine family; Canidae.

Famous, prominent, or highly influential.

hyun2 haak1 jat1 si4

烜赫一時烜赫一时

To enjoy short-lived fame or a brief period of great power and influence.

Inuyasha, the fictional character.

Quanrong, an ancient ethnic group of western China during the Zhou Dynasty.