Cantonese words starting with P

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To go somewhere with a specific purpose but fail to achieve it, leaving empty-handed.

pok3 juk6 wan4 gam1

璞玉渾金璞玉浑金

Uncut jade and unrefined gold; used to describe someone with a naturally kind, honest, and unadorned personality.

To search everywhere for news, a story, or information.

To extinguish a fire or to stamp out and eradicate something.

pok3 pok3 zaai1

㩧㩧齋㩧㩧斋

An old-style private school or study hall.

pok3 sam1 pok3 meng6

撲心撲命扑心扑命

To put all of one's heart, soul, and effort into doing something.

To hit someone on the head; to strike someone's head.

Simple, plain, or down-to-earth.

To run around gathering funds due to an emergency; to raise money urgently.

To put out, stamp out, or extinguish a fire.

pok3 sok3 mai4 lei4

撲朔迷離扑朔迷离

Complicated and confusing, making it difficult to understand the truth or see the full picture.

Simple, plain, and modest in appearance or style.

Rushing, torrential, or pouring, as of water or heavy rain.

Torrential; pouring; describing very heavy rain.

pong1 to4 daai6 jyu5

Torrential rain; pouring rain.

To slander, defame, or speak ill of someone.

To slander or speak ill of someone.

To slander or criticize behind someone's back.

To hesitate or be irresolute.

Enormous, gigantic, or huge in size or scale.

Narration, voice-over, or the narrator providing background and plot details for a drama or story.

Side, or a position very close to either side.

Huge; massive; enormous in size, scale, or volume.

Mistress; a female lover keeping a secret relationship.

To look on from the side without participating or taking a stand.

旁觀者旁观者

An onlooker, bystander, or spectator who observes without participating.

pong4 gun1 ze2 cing1

旁觀者清旁观者清

Onlookers see things more clearly and holistically than those involved.

Urinary bladder; the sac-like organ in mammals that stores and excretes urine.

pong4 haau1 zak1 gik1

旁敲側擊旁敲侧击

To ask about something in a roundabout way; to sound someone out or drop hints indirectly.

Other people; bystanders or outsiders who are not directly involved in a matter.

Mammoth; huge; giant.

pong4 jin4 daai6 mat6

龐然大物庞然大物

A huge, enormous object, creature, or monster.

pong4 joek6 mou4 jan4

旁若無人旁若无人

To act as if nobody is around, behaving completely without restraint or regard for others.

Dusk; evening; the time of day just after afternoon when it starts to get dark.

pong4 mun4 zo2 dou6

旁門左道旁门左道

Dishonest, underhanded, or devious methods; heterodox practices.

To provide commentary or narration, especially for a live sports broadcast.

pong4 si6 pin3 guk6

龐氏騙局庞氏骗局

Ponzi scheme; a fraudulent investment scam using new funds to pay earlier investors.

To audit, observe, or sit in on a class, meeting, or court trial as a visitor without participating.

Anxious, lost, and hesitant, not knowing what to do.

pong4 zing1; pong2 zing1

A euphemism for the female sexual organ.

An assistant referee in soccer, or circumstantial evidence in a legal context.

Mussel; a freshwater bivalve mollusk with a symmetrical shell.

A shop, store, or retail outlet where goods or services are sold.

A textile covering used on top of something for protection or decoration.

A patch of cloth used for mending or lining clothes.

To lay down or install objects along a specific route, such as tracks, cables, or pipes.

鋪草皮铺草皮

To lose money in horse betting.

Bedding or bedclothes.