Cantonese words starting with S

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To wrestle or engage in wrestling.

A pension or compensation paid to a disabled person or the family of the deceased.

seot1 gan1 tau4

摔跟頭摔跟头

To fall down, tumble, or trip; figuratively, to suffer a setback or make a mistake.

Year of the Dog, the eleventh year in the twelve-year Chinese zodiac cycle.

Wrestling; a combat sport where two opponents use strength and technique to pin or overpower each other.

To relieve the distressed; to provide assistance to the poor and needy.

seot1 jau4 gau6 zoeng1

率由舊章率由旧章

To follow precedent; to act in accordance with established, old rules.

Offhandedness when composing, or to dash off writing quickly and without care.

seot1 ji5 cou1 gu1

率爾操觚率尔操觚

To write or compose in an off-hand, hasty way without careful thought.

Hastily, suddenly, or abruptly.

To give financial aid or relief to widows.

To lead, head, or command a group of people.

To fall and smash into pieces, or to drop and break something.

A dress shirt; a western-style collared shirt with buttons down the front.

Shirt; a collared, button-down shirt.

seot1 sau3 sik6 jan4

率獸食人率兽食人

To lead beasts to eat people; used to describe a tyrannical government that oppresses and exploits its people.

To fall to one's death; to be killed in a fall.

The period of the day from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in traditional Chinese timekeeping.

To be the first to do or complete an action.

Wilfulness, or acting in accordance with one's natural instincts.

To fall and injure oneself.

To break a bone or snap an object from a fall or throw.

To drop and break; to break something by dropping or throwing it.

Frank and sincere; straightforward and genuine.

Frank, candid, and straightforward; speaking directly without reservation.

Shu River, a river in Shandong Province, China.

Skill, art, or specialized technique requiring practice.

To state, narrate, or explain.

Shuyang; a county in Suqian, Jiangsu province, China.

seot6 joeng4 jyun6

沭陽縣沭阳县

Shuyang County, a county in Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, China.

Terminology; a technical term or jargon used in a specific field or academic discipline.

Predicator; the core verb constituent within a predicate.

Glutinous millet, also known as broomcorn millet.

A commentary; a news report combined with commentary.

A master of occult arts, magician, warlock, or wizard.

To recount, narrate, or give an account of.

To report on one's work performance to a superior.

Ｓｅｔ頭Ｓｅｔ头

To style or set one's hair.

To manage, control, or take charge of; or a person who does so.

To hiss, whiz, or make a hissing sound; or a call to come.

A person representing the dead during ancient burial ceremonies, or the Kangxi radical number forty-four.

Corpse; the dead body of a person or animal.

An army division, typically consisting of about 10,000 soldiers.

Mutually; with each other.

To think, contemplate, or consider.

Used as a character to represent phonetic components in the transliteration of foreign names.

A Chinese surname, typically transliterated as Sze, Sy, See, or Si.

Private, personal, or relating to oneself or one's own group.