Cantonese words starting with K

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he ; it (Cantonese)

to resist; to refuse

keoi5 bat1 zip3 sau6

refusing to accept

to resist arrest

keoi5 ci3 mak6 gai1

距翅麥雞距翅麦鸡

(bird species of China) river lapwing (Vanellus duvaucelii)

to refuse (a visa application etc)

佢哋嘅渠哋嘅

their's (spoken)

keoi5 dei6 zi6 gei2

佢哋自己渠哋自己

to refuse to accept a payment; to stop (a check or payment)

keoi5 fu6 fong4 bin3

拒腐防變拒腐防变

to fight corruption and forestall moral degeneration

keoi5 gaan3 sik1 fei1

拒諫飾非拒谏饰非

refusing people's good advice and attempting to cover

before the present

elongation (astronomy)

distance; to be apart from

keoi5 zi1 mun4 ngoi6

拒之門外拒之门外

to lock one's door and refuse to see sb

to refuse to take a passenger (of taxi)

to refuse; to decline; to reject

to grasp with pincers; to clamp; to restrict; to coerce

abbr. for Guizhou province 贵州Guìzhōu [贵州]

a light yellowish -blackish colour

kim4 dung1 naam4 miu4 zuk6 dung6 zuk6 zi6 zi6 zau1

黔東南苗族侗族自治州黔东南苗族侗族自治州

Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, in Guizhou Province 貴州省|贵州省[Gui4 zhou1 Sheng3]

kim4 dung1 naam4 zau1

黔東南州黔东南州

see 黔東南苗族侗族自治州|黔东南苗族侗族自治州[Qian2 dong1 nan2 Miao2 zu2 Dong4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1]

see 黔江區|黔江区[Qian2 jiang1 Qu1]

kim4 gong1 keoi1

黔江區黔江区

Qianjiang, a district of Chongqing 重慶|重庆[Chong2 qing4]

kim4 lou4 gei6 kung4

黔驢技窮黔驴技穷

to exhaust one's limited abilities (idiom)

kim4 maa5 haam4 mui4

鉗馬銜枚钳马衔枚

with horses and soldiers gagged (idiom)

kim4 naam4 bou3 ji1 zuk6 miu4 zuk6 zi6 zi6 zau1

黔南布依族苗族自治州

Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in Guizhou Province 貴州省|贵州省[Gui4 zhou1 Sheng3]

kim4 naam4 zau1

see 黔南布依族苗族自治州[Qian2 nan2 Bu4 yi1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1]

see 黔西市[Qian2 xi1 Shi4]

kim4 sai1 naam4 bou3 ji1 zuk6 miu4 zuk6 zi6 zi6 zau1

黔西南布依族苗族自治州

Qianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in Guizhou Province 貴州省|贵州省[Gui4 zhou1 Sheng3]

kim4 sai1 naam4 zau1

see 黔西南布依族苗族自治州[Qian2 xi1 nan2 Bu4 yi1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1]

the common people (a term used in ancient China)

pliers; tweezers;forceps; pincers

to suppress; to muzzle; to gag

kim4 zeoi2 gun3

鉗嘴鸛钳嘴鹳

(bird species of China) Asian openbill (Anastomus oscitans)

pliers; tongs; vise; claw (of a crab etc); (dialect) earring

to clamp down; to suppress

kin2 hei2 wok6 goi3

㨴起鑊蓋㨴起镬盖

the lift the lid off the wok [colloquial]

kin2 hoi1 bun2 syu1

㨴開本書㨴开本书

to open a book [colloquial]

part of a place name

to carry on the shoulder

to act with reverence; sincere; to rob

kin4 gaa1 saam1 daai6 gaa1

乾嘉三大家

the three leading poets of the Qianlong-Jiaqing era (1735–1820), who championed personal expression and innovation in Qing poetry: Yuan Mei 袁枚[Yuan2 Mei2], Jiang Shiquan 蔣士銓|蒋士铨[Jiang3 Shi4 quan2] and Zhao Yi 趙翼|赵翼[Zhao4 Yi4]