Cantonese words starting with P

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Purine; a water-soluble organic compound essential for nucleic acids, also found in caffeine and uric acid.

Vague, misty, and difficult to grasp or describe in concrete terms.

飄飄然飘飘然

Elated, smug, or walking on air after receiving praise or success.

piu1 piu1 juk6 sin1

飄飄欲仙飘飘欲仙

To feel like one is floating in the clouds, in paradise, or soaring like an immortal.

Piu Sik; a traditional festive parade featuring children dressed as historical or legendary figures raised up on concealed supports.

A ticket, slip, or voucher used as a proof or certificate.

To bleach; to whiten or lighten something using chemical substances.

piu3 baak6 seoi2

Bleach; specifically liquid household bleach.

Box office, ticket sales, or a ticket office.

Ticket price; fare.

Receipt, bill, or invoice.

To bleach and dye, stripping the original color of fabric or hair before dyeing it a new color.

Voter base; source of votes.

Beautiful, pretty, or nice-looking.

Ticket stub; the torn part of a ticket kept by the holder as a receipt.

Ballot box; a container for holding cast votes.

Number of votes received by a candidate or a party list in an election.

Polling station; a place where voters cast their ballots.

piu3 zaam6 diu6 caa4

票站調查票站调查

Exit poll; an election survey taken immediately after voters leave the polling station.

A ladle or dipper; also a ladybug or ladybird.

To patronize prostitutes; to visit a sex worker.

Ladybug or ladybird; a type of beetle characterized by a brightly colored, spotted back.

piu4 dou2 jam2 ceoi1

嫖賭飲吹嫖赌饮吹

The four traditional vices: whoring, gambling, drinking, and drug-taking.

To visit a prostitute; to pay for sex.

The customer of a prostitute; a man who visits sex workers or brothels.

Friends who visit prostitutes together.

To rob or plagiarize; nimble or swift.

To die of starvation.

To cast a glance; to look at sideways or out of the corner of one's eye.

Swim bladder or fish maw; an air-filled internal organ of fish used to regulate buoyancy, often dried and used as food.

To plunder, rob, or pillage.

To plagiarize; to steal and pass off someone else's work or ideas as one's own.

Quite; considerably; to a fairly high degree.

Cannot; to be unable to; also meaning not or impossibly.

Flat basket-tray, typically made of bamboo strips and used for drying or winnowing grain.

Unpredictable; hard to gauge, especially of malicious intentions.

Unbearable, unendurable, or detestable.

Quite; considerably; rather.

To break, damage, or split something so that it is no longer whole or intact.

To chop firewood.

To go bankrupt, or to be completely broke or penniless.

To get rid of, abolish, or thoroughly eliminate something.

To suffer an unexpected financial loss.

po3 coi4 dong2 zoi1

破財擋災破财挡灾

To lose money to ward off a worse misfortune.

To lose one's virginity, or to take away someone else's virginity.

To spend too much money, or to go to great expense, often said in appreciation of a host's generosity.

po3 fu2 cam4 zau1

破釜沈舟破釜沉舟

To burn one's bridges; to cut off all means of retreat to commit fully to a course of action.

po3 fu2 cam4 zau1

To cut off one's retreat and resolve to fight to the end; to act with absolute determination.

To crack, decipher, or solve a puzzle, mystery, code, or difficult problem.

To violate a religious precept, or to break a vow to abstain from something.