Cantonese words starting with J

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Prison guard; gaoler.

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To have no choice but to let oneself be manipulated and humiliated by others; like flesh on a chopping board.

Meat sauce or minced meat paste.

A jade bracelet.

Thorn in one's flesh; a person who is deeply detested or hated.

The buzz of a flying insect flapping its wings.

To bury, clog up, or cover up with sand or soil.

Carbuncle; a large, painful, pus-filled skin infection or ulcer.

A form of address or term for middle-aged and elderly men.

A city surrounded by a moat, or used to mean peaceful.

Harmonious, majestic, or mild-mannered.

An honorific term for a husband's parents.

Yvonne Yung Hung, a Hong Kong actress.

Ulcer, carbuncle, or abscess.

Ancient wooden or clay human figurines used as burial goods, serving a similar purpose to modern paper offerings.

Superfluous, redundant, or useless.

To urge, incite, or instigate.

To gush, pour, surge, or rise up rapidly and forcefully.

A screened pathway, clock handles, or an ancient dry measure.

To swell up, bloat, or be excessively fat.

Pupa; the transitional stage of a complete metamorphic insect between larva and adult.

To leap or jump.

To gush, pour, or surge out.

Unnecessarily long; wordy or long-winded.

To support, love, and respect someone, especially a leader or public figure.

Fans or admirers of a public figure, celebrity, or sports team.

Supporter, fan, or follower.

Sweatpants or fleece trousers.

Commission fee; a referral fee charged after facilitating a transaction.

To support the army.

To flood in, pour in, or enter in large numbers.

To own, possess, or have something.

To emerge or spring up in large numbers.

Eager and enthusiastic; actively participating or responding warmly.

Surplus staff or deadwood; members of an organization who are incompetent and burden the group.

To embrace and kiss; to hold someone in one's arms and kiss them.

Fine, soft hair, fur, or down.

To embrace or hug.

A fleece sweater; a woolly or fleece-lined top.

To support or express loyalty to a political leader, party, or policy.

Crowded, packed, or densely populated.

Swollen or bloated, especially in a heavy, bulky, or bloated manner.

To allow, permit, or let someone do something.

The sight of many mountain peaks connecting.

Common, ordinary, mediocre, or incompetent.

Lethargic, lazy, or easy-going.

Military, martial, or related to soldiers.

Banyan; a large evergreen tree with a wide canopy and slender aerial roots.

To dissolve; to have a solid disperse evenly and disappear into a liquid.