Cantonese words starting with J

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Silt, sediment, or clogged fluid.

Embarrassed, humiliated, or ashamed; to lose face.

Winding, roundabout, or to bend.

Taro; a tropical root vegetable.

A pedant; a bookworm who is stubborn, rigid, and impractical.

Pedantic, dogmatic, and behind the times; outdated and old-fashioned in thinking.

High-sounding and impractical; unrealistic or out of touch.

An absurd opinion, or a humble way of referring to one's own opinion.

To fertilize land by flooding it with muddy water to deposit silt.

Bruised; turned black and blue from bruising or pooled blood.

Pedantic; stubborn, old-fashioned, and impractical.

Extravasated blood; localized blood congestion or bruising.

Thereupon; thereafter; thus; then.

An old-fashioned, pedantic, or impractical scholar.

Impractical, round-about, or far-fetched.

Pedantic and stubbornly conventional; sticking rigidly to old-fashioned rules or customs.

Circuitous, winding, or roundabout.

Unrealistic argument; impractical or pedantic theory.

Sluggish, slow, or dilatory in action.

Silt, mud, or sludge, especially that found at the bottom of a river, lake, or drain.

Slow-witted and halting in speech; simple and overcautious.

To silt up or block up; referring to a waterway clogged with silt or debris.

jyu1 sam1 bat1 jan2

於心不忍于心不忍

To feel soft-hearted; unable to bear seeing someone suffer.

Having a face full of beard or whiskers.

So, therefore, or hence; used to establish a causal relationship between two events to explain an action.

於是乎于是乎

Therefore, whereupon, as a result, or consequently.

jyu1 si6 mou4 bou2

於事無補于事无补

Futile; of no help to the matter, such that whatever one does will not change the outcome.

Winding, twisting, or indirect.

jyu1 wui4 ban1 zaap6

迂回奔襲迂回奔袭

To detour and launch a surprise attack, or to attack from an unexpected direction.

jyu1 wui4 kuk1 zit3

Winding and circuitous, or complicated and full of twists and turns.

Slow and roundabout; dilatory or taking a circuitous route.

Silted up; clogged or congested.

Pedantic, high-sounding, and impractical.

Pedantic and stubborn; overly rigid and clinging to outdated ideas.

To silt up, or the sediment and slurry accumulated from silting.

Pedantic and stubborn; impractical and clumsy in one's ways.

Hunchbacked; having a bent spine.

An old woman, or to shelter and protect.

An ecchymosis; a bruise or purplish patch on the skin caused by internal bleeding.

Bruise; a purplish or greenish mark on the skin caused by a blow or impact.

Bruise; a purplish mark on the skin caused by bleeding under the tissue.

Petechia; tiny purple, red, or brown spots on the skin caused by minor bleeding.

A bruise or contusion.

Bruise, blood clot, or blood stasis left inside the body.

jyu2 hyut3 baan1

Bruise; a purplish mark on the skin caused by internal bleeding.

To stoop or hunch; or the medical condition of hypophosphatemic rickets.

Embarrassing, humiliated, or ashamed.

Bruising; a bruise.

Bruise; a subcutaneous injury where blood pools under the skin or muscle, causing dark discoloration.

Stasis of blood or other bodily fluids in Chinese medicine.