Cantonese words starting with L

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To wander, stroll, or roam around aimlessly.

To spend money extravagantly or recklessly.

lyun6 gwo3 lyun6 sai3 gaai1 jan4

亂過亂世佳人乱过乱世佳人

Extremely messy or chaotic.

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亂過亂葬崗乱过乱葬岗

Extremely chaotic, messy, or untidy.

To eat indiscriminately or thoughtlessly.

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亂哄哄乱哄哄

Noisy and in disarray; chaotic and bustling.

To throw things around carelessly; to litter.

To use or operate something carelessly, improperly, or without knowing how.

To act recklessly, wildly, or without order.

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亂立立乱立立

Messy, untidy, or in complete disarray.

The suffering and displacement brought to a country by political instability and war.

Incest; to commit incest, having sexual relations between close relatives such as parent and child or siblings.

Messy, chaotic, and completely disorganized.

A tangled skein, or a state of utter confusion and chaos.

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Rebels or rioters; people who create social disorder.

亂諗嘢乱谂嘢

To overthink, let one's mind wander, or have wild and unrealistic thoughts.

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亂噏廿四乱噏廿四

To talk nonsense, rubbish, or gibberish; to talk through one's hat.

To run around or run about aimlessly.

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亂蓬蓬乱蓬蓬

Disheveled, messy, or untidy, especially referring to hair.

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亂晒坑乱晒坑

In complete disarray; messy, chaotic, or in a muddle.

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亂晒籠乱晒笼

Chaotic, messy, or completely disorderly.

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亂晒龍乱晒龙

In complete disarray; extremely messy or chaotic.

Troubled times; turbulent days; an era of political or social instability.

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亂世佳人乱世佳人

Gone with the Wind, the classic novel and film.

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亂臣賊子乱臣贼子

Rebellious officials and traitors who are disloyal to their monarch or country.

To write without basis, scribble, or write aimlessly.

Scattered stones or rubble.

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亂石砸死乱石砸死

To stone to death

To talk nonsense, make irresponsible remarks, or speak without thinking.

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亂彈琴乱弹琴

To act blindly or foolishly, talk nonsense, or make a mess of things.

To jump about, leap around, or bounce erratically.

To be in a mess or muddled; to fall into a state of disorder.

To doodle or scribble.

To claw wildly or to arrest people indiscriminately.

To pass off as genuine; to be so lifelike or realistic that it is mistaken for the real thing.

Trouble, disturbance, or a state of confusion.

To corrupt politics or disrupt government administration.

Chaos; a state of disorder or confusion.

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亂作一團乱作一团

To end up in a complete mess, chaos, or confusion.

lyun6 zong3 gong1

亂葬崗乱葬岗

A mass grave or potter's field; also used figuratively to describe a messy or chaotic setting.

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亂糟糟乱糟糟

Messy, untidy, and cluttered with things lying around.

Bad, inferior, or of low quality; below standard.

To run one's hand along or over something long and thin, or to pull up or slide up.

An ancient unit of weight.

lyut3 bai6 keoi1 zuk6 loeng4 bai6

劣幣驅逐良幣劣币驱逐良币

Bad money drives out good; Gresham's law, or more broadly, the phenomenon where the inferior displaces the superior.

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To roll up one's sleeves and bare one's fists, showing a readiness to fight or get to work.

Inferior; poor quality; of a low grade.

捋虎鬚捋虎须

To stroke a tiger's whiskers; to do something extremely risky or provoke someone powerful.

lyut3 gaak3 bok3

To roll or push up one's sleeves, usually in preparation for physical labor or a fight.