Cantonese words starting with J

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jam2 seoi2 si1 jyun4

飲水思源饮水思源

To drink water and think of its source; to be grateful and never forget one's origins or those who helped.

Food and drink; diet, or the act of eating and drinking.

飲食店饮食店

An eatery; a restaurant or any establishment that serves food and drinks.

飲食業饮食业

Catering, food and beverage, or restaurant industry.

Cheers; a toast used to celebrate, meaning to bottom up or drink everything in the glass.

jam2 sing3 keoi5

飲勝佢饮胜渠

To toast; to finish one's drink; bottoms up.

jam2 tau4 daam6 tong1

飲頭啖湯饮头啖汤

To be the first to reap the benefits of a new opportunity; the early bird gets the worm.

Drinking straw; a hollow cylindrical tube used for sipping liquids.

jam2 zam6 zi2 hot3

飲鴆止渴饮鸩止渴

To drink poison to quench thirst; to use harmful methods to solve immediate difficulties.

To drink alcohol; to have a drink, often as a social activity with friends.

To get drunk; to drink alcohol to the point of losing cognitive clarity and coordination.

jam2 zeoi3 zau2

飲醉酒饮醉酒

To get drunk; to be intoxicated from drinking alcohol.

飲醉咗饮醉咗

Drunk; inebriated.

jam2 zo2 mun4 gun1 caa4

飲咗門官茶饮咗门官茶

To be grinning or smiling all the time.

飲早茶饮早茶

To have dim sum and morning tea.

To protect, shelter, or bless.

Term of office, or the office bearer during a specific term.

To nag, mutter, or grumble incessantly.

To conceive; to be pregnant.

Lascivious, lewd, or obscene; also used literary to mean excessive or overindulgent.

Long, heavy, and continuous rain.

A thief or bandit who commits sexual crimes; a rapist or molester.

A lecherous person, typically a man, with an excessive sex drive or obsessive thoughts about sex.

Lascivious, licentious, or of loose morals, usually describing women.

A loose, promiscuous, or wanton woman; slut.

任劍輝任剑辉

Yam Kim-fai, a famous Cantonese opera actress.

Lascivious, lustful, or dirty man.

Renqiu, a county-level city in Hebei Province, China.

任賢齊任贤齐

Richie Jen, a Taiwanese singer and actor.

Sexually promiscuous, licentious, or loose.

Licentious and extravagant; promiscuous and wasteful.

A sex fiend, sexual predator, or serial rapist.

Pimp or madam; a procurer of sexual or escort services.

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Haumea; a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt.

To recite or chant poetry.

jam4 si1 zok3 deoi3

吟詩作對吟诗作对

To compose poetry and couplets.

Obscene, indecent, or containing corrupting values.

Seductress; a sexually suggestive, provocative, or promiscuous woman.

Promiscuous, shameless, and obsessed with sex.

Soundly asleep; in a deep sleep and hard to wake up.

Perilla, an aromatic herb; beans.

(Of time) to slip away, pass imperceptibly, or fly by.

To think, or to be like this; also used as an interrogative meaning which.

To rent, lease, or hire out.

To cook; to prepare food.

To teach at a school.

Any; whichever; whatever; used to refer to any person, thing, or arbitrary choice without specification.

Anybody; anyone; any person.

jam6 jan4 wai4 can1

任人唯親任人唯亲

To practice nepotism; to appoint or promote people based on close relationships rather than ability or character.

To let, allow, or give full rein to, with a connotation of acquiescing.