Cantonese words starting with J

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A rebellious minister or a traitorous official.

Axillary; arising from the axil of a leaf.

To change hands; to be sold to a new owner.

jik6 sau2 lung4

翼手龍翼手龙

To translate or to transliterate.

Against the current; upstream.

jik6 seoi2 hang4 zau1

To sail against the current; to go against the tide.

jik6 seoi2 hang4 zau1 ，bat1 zeon3 zak1 teoi3

逆水行舟，不進則退逆水行舟，不进则退

To sail against the current; if you do not move forward, you will fall back.

To translate and summarize, or to translate freely.

逆時針逆时针

Counterclockwise; in the opposite direction to the rotation of the hands of a clock.

Yicheng; a district in Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, China.

Yicheng County, a county in Shanxi province.

To translate into a target language.

Yicheng district of Zhumadian city, Henan province.

jik6 sing4 jyun6

翼城縣翼城县

Yicheng County, in Linfen City, Shanxi Province.

jik6 sing4 keoi1

嶧城區峄城区

Yicheng District, a district of Zaozhuang City in Shandong Province.

jik6 sing4 keoi1

驛城區驿城区

Yicheng, a district of Zhumadian City in Henan province.

To count in reverse order; can also refer to a prediction, misfortune, or natural anomalies.

Yi Shu, a popular Hong Kong writer.

Liquid state; the state of being a liquid.

jik6 taai3 naai5

液態奶液态奶

Liquid milk; general term for milk packaged for consumer sale.

jik6 taai3 seoi2

液態水液态水

Liquid water, as opposed to steam or ice.

Liquid; a state of matter with a definite volume but no fixed shape, which flows freely to fit its container.

jik6 tai2 jin4 liu2

液體燃料液体燃料

Lateral Courts in the imperial palace housing concubines and administrative offices.

Or; alternatively.

Bad luck; misfortune.

jik6 wan6 syun3

逆運算逆运算

Inverse operation.

An inverted turn, which is a musical ornament.

The sidewalls of a palace.

An ancient courier station or relay post for changing horses, resting, and lodging when delivering government documents.

To counterattack from a position of disadvantage; to turn the tables.

Flank of an army or a military formation.

A translator of written texts.

Reverse order; inverse order.

An unfilial son who is disobedient or defiant to his parents' wishes.

Fender or mudguard of a vehicle.

Namely; that is to say.

Wingspan; the distance from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.

Liquid crystal; a state of matter commonly used in LCD screens.

jik6 zing1 hin2 si6

液晶顯示液晶显示

Liquid crystal display (LCD)

jik6 zing1 hin2 si6 hei3

液晶顯示器液晶显示器

Liquid crystal display

jik6 zing1 ping4

Liquid crystal screen

Also written as; another written form of a Chinese word.

Yizhuang, a town in Beijing.

To reverse or overturn a situation or result.

jik6 zyun2 luk6 beng6 duk6

逆轉錄病毒逆转录病毒

Retrovirus; reverse transcribing virus.

jik6 zyun2 luk6 mui4

逆轉錄酶逆转录酶

Reverse transcriptase; an enzyme used to generate complementary DNA from an RNA template.

Yi Zhuan, a collection of commentaries on the Book of Changes (I Ching).