Cantonese words starting with L

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loi4 seoi2 jyun6

淶水縣涞水县

Laishui, a county in Baoding, Hebei.

An incoming letter; a letter received.

loi4 si1 daai6 hok6

萊斯大學莱斯大学

Rice University, a private research university in Houston, Texas.

萊斯特莱斯特

Leicester or Lester; the name or place name.

loi4 si1 dak6 gwan6

萊斯特郡莱斯特郡

Leicestershire; a county in England.

loi4 si1 juk1 si1 dou2

萊斯沃斯島莱斯沃斯岛

Lesbos, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea.

萊索托莱索托

Lesotho, a landlocked country in southern Africa entirely surrounded by South Africa.

loi4 sou1 tong4

來蘇糖来苏糖

Lyxose, a type of aldopentose sugar.

loi4 syut3 si6 fei1 ze2 ，bin6 si6 si6 fei1 jan4

來說是非者，便是是非人来说是非者，便是是非人

The person who comes gossip and carry tales is usually the troublemaker themselves.

Background, origin, or connections.

To come to Taiwan.

To come to China.

loi4 wan1 si1 gei1

萊溫斯基莱温斯基

Monica Lewinsky, former White House intern.

Contact, dealings, or relations between people.

loi4 wong6 aak1 ji5

萊旺厄爾莱旺厄尔

Levanger, a city in Trøndelag, Norway.

To make a round trip; to go back and forth.

loi4 wui4 loi4 heoi3

來回來去来回来去

Repeatedly, back and forth, or over and over again.

To invade, attack, or hit.

Laizhou, a county-level city in Yantai, Shandong, China.

萊州市莱州市

Laizhou, a county-level city in Yantai, Shandong.

The person who is coming or approaching; a visitor or newcomer.

loi4 ze2 bat1 keoi5

來者不拒来者不拒

To refuse nobody; to welcome all comers.

loi4 ze2 bat1 sin6 ，sin6 ze2 bat1 loi4

來者不善，善者不來来者不善，善者不来

Those who come are not well-intentioned, and those who are well-intentioned do not come.

loi4 zi1 bat1 ji6

來之不易来之不易

Hard-won; difficult to come by or achieve.

To come from or originate from a place, source, or background.

An aspect particle used at the end of a sentence to indicate that an action or state occurred in the recent past.

A modal particle used to soften the tone of a statement or to express a sense of continuation.

To glance at or squint at.

To bestow or grant.

Onomatopoeia for the sound of reading aloud.

lok1 lok1 seng1

咯咯聲咯咯声

To speak fluently, continuously, and naturally, or to describe such smooth speech.

The surname Lok, or shorthand for the city of Luoyang.

To brand, or to bake, griddle, or roast using a pan.

A brindled ox, or someone eminent and distinguished.

To connect or to contact.

Curdled milk, cream, fruit jelly, or thick liquid food made from nuts or fruit.

A black horse with a white mane.

A Chinese surname, usually transliterated as Lok.

珞巴語珞巴语

The Lhoba language, spoken by the Lhoba ethnic group of southeast Tibet.

Lhoba ethnic group, an ethnic minority group in Tibet.

lok3 ban1 wong4

駱賓王骆宾王

Luo Binwang, one of the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang dynasty.

Flatbread; a type of Chinese pancake cooked on a griddle.

Onomatopoeia for a snapping, cracking, or breaking sound.

Luochuan county in Yan'an, Shaanxi.

lok3 cyun1 jyun6

洛川縣洛川县

Luochuan County, a county in Yan'an, Shaanxi.

lok3 daan2 baak6

Casein, a phosphorus-containing protein found in milk.

Luojiang, a district in Quanzhou, Fujian.

lok3 gong1 keoi1

洛江區洛江区

Luojiang, a district of Quanzhou City in Fujian.