Cantonese words starting with J

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jaa1 jaa1 seng1

吔吔聲吔吔声

Sound made to express surprise, disbelief, anger, or pain.

To eat shit; a vulgar way to express extreme contempt or tell someone to go away.

To eat a banana, perform fellatio, or express contempt and tell someone to get lost.

吔吔烏吔吔乌

Sloppy, messy, and thoughtless, or used to describe a frivolous person of low skill.

Also, too, as well, or either, indicating a shared situation or attribute.

Also not; neither.

Perhaps, maybe, or probably.

May as well; also good.

A final particle or remark used to express doubt or skepticism.

jaa5 man4 jaa5 mou5

To act in a boastful manner, show off, or flaunt one's power.

Yemen; a country in Western Asia on the Arabian Peninsula with its capital in Sana'a.

Twenty-one; the number 21.

廿一點廿一点

Blackjack; a card game where players aim to get a hand value as close to 21 as possible without exceeding it.

A type of Cantonese herbal tea with cooling and detoxifying properties.

jaa6 sei3 siu2 si4

廿四小時廿四小时

Twenty-four seven; all the time; constantly.

jaap3 gou1 fu3 goek3

押高褲腳押高裤脚

To roll up one's pant cuffs.

Naughty or ill-behaved; used in baby talk.

Something of inferior or bad quality; a shoddy item or product.

To drag, pull, or tug.

Of poor quality; badly made.

A naughty, disobedient child, or used affectionately to refer to one.

Onomatopoeia for the sound made to coax a baby to eat.

To respect, admire, or venerate; respectful or imperial.

To admire or be pleased; or for gods to enjoy sacrificial offerings.

Shade or shelter from the sun, or blessing and protection from ancestors.

To trick, trap, or deceive someone into making a mistake.

Sound, tone, or pitch; the pronunciation of a character.

Dark and gloomy, typically used to describe abstract concepts.

Phonetic symbols or transcription used to indicate the pronunciation of a language.

Pudendum; external genitals or reproductive organs.

jam1 caai1 daai6 san4

欽差大臣钦差大臣

Imperial envoy; an official post in imperial China.

Gloomy, cloudy, or sombre in weather; can also describe a dark, gloomy, or scheming personality.

Imperial decree; "herewith by imperial order" (used at the end of an imperial command).

An interval in music; the distance between the pitches of two tones.

jam1 cou4 dei6 fu2

陰曹地府阴曹地府

The underworld or Hades in traditional belief; the realm of the dead where souls go after death.

The speed of sound.

Accent; the distinctive pronunciation or vocal characteristics of a person or a region.

Clitoris; a part of the female external genitalia located above the urethral opening.

Good deeds done in secret that earn spiritual merit in the afterlife.

Pitch; the perceived highness or lowness of a sound.

Vagina; the muscular tube leading from the external genitals to the cervix of the uterus.

Insidious, sinister, and ruthless.

On'yomi; the Sino-Japanese reading of a kanji that preserves its original Chinese pronunciation.

A musical note; a symbol used in musical notation to represent the relative pitch and duration of a sound.