Cantonese words starting with H

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haan4 liu4 tin1

閑聊天闲聊天

haan4 loi4 mou4 si6

閒來無事闲来无事

at leisure; to have nothing to do

in a relaxed mood

during leisure time [written and colloquial]

other's business

variant of 閒談|闲谈[xian2 tan2]

casual conversation; gossip

haan4 waa6 gaa1 soeng4

閑話家常闲话家常

to chat about domestic trivia (idiom)

(employee) having no fixed duties

someone or something not related or not of relevance; of no apparent purpose; having no fixed duties

to leave sth unused

gentle and refined

recreative seal, bearing not the owner's name but a well-known verse or such, and used for artistic purposes on paintings etc

limit; to set a limit (on); line; threshold; to specify

haan6 ding6 ci4

限定詞限定词

determiner (in grammar, i.e. article, demonstrative, possessive pronoun, noun genitive etc)

boundaries; limit; circumscription

haan6 gaai3 sin3

限界線限界线

to be limited to

to set a time limit; deadline

haan6 loeng6 baan2

limited edition

haan6 si4 seon3

限時信限时信

mail to be delivered by a specified time

haan6 zai3 mui4

restriction enzyme

haan6 zai3 mui4 tou4 pou2

限制酶圖譜限制酶图谱

restriction mapping (in genomics)

hole; tunnel; to bury alive

to get one's father involved in a difficult situation

mine shaft; tunnel

rammers' work chant

haang1 haang1 waa1 waa1

坑坑窪窪坑坑洼洼

full of pits and hollows; bumpy