Cantonese words starting with L

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Electrical leakage; a short circuit or fault where current escapes to the ground or outer casing.

A loophole, flaw, or vulnerability in a system, law, or rule.

To leak air, lisp due to missing teeth, or have food go stale from poor packaging.

An oversight, a omission, or a missed opportunity.

With nothing left, bare, sleek, or very smooth.

To stammer or stutter.

lau6 hau2 fung1

漏口風漏口风

To inadvertently let a secret slip, or to deliberately leak information to test public reaction.

To leak gas or air, or metaphorically to be indecisive, sloppy, or dilatory.

To do something overnight or through the night.

A crack, leak, loophole, or flaw.

To slip through the net; to escape justice or punishment.

lau6 mong5 zi1 jyu4

漏網之魚漏网之鱼

A fish that has slipped through the net; a person who has escaped capture.

lau6 san4 ok3 saat3

兇神惡煞凶神恶煞

Fierce, angry, and hostile in appearance or attitude.

A humble home; a simple, crude, or small room.

Bad habits or corrupt, undesirable customs.

An undesirable, bad, or backward custom.

Level; a stage or rank in a video game.

To grin, grimace, or draw back the corners of one's mouth.

Cantonese final particle used to express agreement or to draw attention.

Messy, slovenly, sloppy, or untidy in appearance or behavior.

Connected with, together with, or including.

Ignorant, thoughtless, or slow-witted; can also refer to a summer hat.

Grain; a unit of weight in the imperial system, now primarily used to measure the mass of ammunition.

To have favus or bald patches on the scalp.

To hide or conceal oneself.

To hide oneself, or to keep to oneself.

Lace; a decorative openwork fabric made by looping, twisting, or knitting.

The citation pronunciation of the character for pear, used in certain collocations.

Yak or a animal tail, particularly one used as a duster or tassel.

The name of a river in Guangxi, or the pattering of rain.

To seep through, or the name of a river in Guangxi.

Black ox; a yak.

Glass, or a phonetic character used in transliterations.

A fence or wattle.

A bridal veil or kerchief, or to bind with a sash.

Clam or similar bivalve mollusk.

To be at a distance away from; used to indicate distance or time between two points.

Haze; foggy weather, or a dust storm.

A pure black horse, or a high-quality horse.

A fence, typically made of bamboo or wood.

To part or leave, typically with little chance of meeting again.

To clarify, define, or clear up something.

A small weighing scale used for gold, silver, or medicine; a type of dragonfly.

To leave or quit a team or group.

To establish, draw up, or determine standards and criteria.

Outlying island; an island situated far from the mainland or major landmass.

To get divorced; to legally dissolve a marriage.

lei4 gaa1 ceot1 zau2

離家出走离家出走

To run away from home because of unhappiness or feeling constrained, and to stop living with one's family.

To sow dissension among a group to breed mutual suspicion and prevent cooperation, usually to achieve one's own goals.

Coming; next; in the near future.