Cantonese words starting with P

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storytelling dramatic art dating back to Song and Yuan periods, single narrator without music, often historical topics with commentary

flat and smooth

ping4 waat6 gei1

smooth muscle (anatomy)

ping4 waat6 zi6

(typography) sans serif

to raze to the ground

evaluation committee; judging panel

to elect as; to consider as

(adjective) Stable

see 平和縣|平和县[Ping2 he2 Xian4]

ping4 wo4 jyun6

平和縣平和县

Pinghe, a county in Zhangzhou City 漳州市[Zhang1 zhou1 Shi4], Fujian

see 平湖市[Ping2 hu2 Shi4]

Pinghu, a county-level city in Jiaxing City 嘉興市|嘉兴市[Jia1 xing1 Shi4], Zhejiang

level; almost flat; not strongly sloping

level and oblique tones (technical term for Classical Chinese rhythmic poetry)

the name of a place in Hong Kong: Peng Chau

ping4 zeon1 zin3 jik6

平津戰役平津战役

Pingjin Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War

smooth; to level off

to suppress rebellion and quell unrest; calm and peaceful

tranquil; serene

decide on awards through discussion

ping4 zong1 bun2

平裝本平装本

paperback (book)

Track of a wanderer

to annotate; commentary

a type of stroke in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4), the left stroke ; see 撇piě [撇]

easily get angry

leftfalling stroke (in Chinese characters); to dump

to shoot a glance; to appear in a flash

(noun) voyeur; peeping tom; peeping watcher

to say a matter has no relationship with the individual referred to, to emphasize one is innocent or in the clear

pit3 daai6 tiu4

撇大條撇大条

(slang) to take a dump

to ditch; to abandon

to skim froth or foam from the surface of a liquid

Criminals found that things are going wrong, and they ran away

to disregard; to leave aside

pit3 hoi1 bat1 taam4

撇開不談撇开不谈

to ignore an issue (idiom)

thousand dollars

rain that is going 'sideways' due to strong winds.