Cantonese words starting with J

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Fingerling; fish fry or young fish bred for cultivation.

Clumsy and stupid.

Milk or dairy products; breasts.

Daughter; a female child of someone.

A Chinese surname, usually transliterated as Yu or U.

An ancient wooden percussion instrument shaped like a crouching tiger, used to signal the end of music.

Bad, weak, unrefined, or deteriorated.

Feather or plume.

And; used to join two things together, especially in proper nouns in Cantonese.

Of or relating to language, speech, or conversation.

An ancient Chinese state during the Spring and Autumn period.

Rain; water droplets that condense and fall from clouds in the atmosphere.

Irregular, uneven, or misaligned teeth.

To ruin, corrupt, or degenerate.

Milky white; milk-white.

jyu5 baak6 sik1

jyu5 baak6 tin1 hung1

Whiteout; a weather condition in which visibility and contrast are severely reduced by snow or sand.

Rubing; a firm, fresh goat milk cheese from Yunnan province.

An error in language usage, such as a grammatical mistake, inappropriate collocation, or lack of coherence.

jyu5 bit6 bat1 tung4

與別不同与别不同

Unique; out of the ordinary; different from other people or things.

Rain tarp; waterproof canvas or sheeting used to keep out rain.

Windshield wiper

jyu5 caat3 seoi2

Windshield wiper fluid; windshield washer fluid.

jyu5 cang4 wan4

雨層雲雨层云

Nimbostratus; a dark, gray, featureless rain cloud.

jyu5 cau3 mei6 gon1

乳臭未乾乳臭未干

Wet behind the ears; young, immature, and inexperienced.

Baby tooth; milk tooth or primary tooth in humans and many mammals that later falls out and is replaced.

jyu5 ci2 tung4 si4

與此同時与此同时

At the same time; meanwhile.

jyu5 ci2 zoeng6

乳齒象乳齿象

Words and phrases; or a function word.

jyu5 cing4 hing3

Harlem Yu, a Taiwanese singer-songwriter.

Milkweed; plants of the genus Asclepias.

Mastoid process; the conical projection of the temporal bone behind the ear.

乳突竇乳突窦

The mastoid antrum, an air space in the temporal bone of the skull.

Raindrop; a single drop of rain.

Intonation; the variation of pitch when speaking, reflecting sentence type and speaker emotion.

Camlet, a type of woven silk fabric.

Yuhua, a district in Changsha, Hunan.

jyu5 faa1 keoi1

雨花區雨花区

Yuhua, a district of Changsha, Hunan.

雨花臺雨花台

Yuhuatai, a scenic and historic hill in Nanjing.

jyu5 faa1 toi4 keoi1

雨花臺區雨花台区

Yuhuatai, a district of Nanjing City, Jiangsu.

To ascend to immortality in Daoism, or for winged insects to emerge from a pupa or cocoon.

乳化劑乳化剂

Emulsifier; a substance used to stabilize an emulsion.

Grammar; the rules governing language structure and word forms, such as tenses and parts of speech.

Drizzle; extremely light rain.

Light drizzle or misty rain.