Cantonese words starting with S

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Smoke from gunpowder or gunfire.

Desolate, lonely, or empty.

Free and easy; leisurely and unfettered; able to do as one pleases.

siu1 jiu4 faat3 ngoi6

逍遙法外逍遥法外

To remain at large; to escape justice and remain free after committing a crime.

siu1 jiu4 zi6 dak1

逍遙自得逍遥自得

Free and easy; doing as one pleases without any worries or constraints.

siu1 jiu4 zi6 zoi6

逍遙自在逍遥自在

Free and at leisure; unfettered, carefree, and comfortable.

siu1 joeng6 zi1 bit6

霄壤之別霄壤之别

A world of difference; a vast difference as between heaven and earth.

Cantonese roast pork (siu yuk) or Japanese-style grilled meat (yakiniku).

To melt or dissolve, especially ice or snow.

siu1 jyu5 gaap3

燒乳鴿烧乳鸽

Deep-fried or roasted pigeon; squab.

燒乳豬烧乳猪

Roast suckling pig.

Elimination; the process of eliminating one or more variables from a system of equations.

Xiao County, a county in Suzhou, Anhui province, China.

燒茄子烧茄子

Stewed eggplant, or grilled eggplant cooked as a dish.

消歧義消歧义

To disambiguate; to remove ambiguity.

Xiao Qian (1910-1999), a Mongolian-born Chinese journalist, author, and translator.

siu1 kwai1 cou4 ceoi4

蕭規曹隨萧规曹随

To follow precedent; to adhere to rules established by one's predecessor.

siu1 laang5 zou3

燒冷灶烧冷灶

To support or flatter someone who is not yet in power, or to bet on an underdog to secure future benefits.

Cantonese roasted meats and cured meats.

燒利市烧利市

To burn paper money as a ritual offering.

The Liang dynasty of the Southern dynasties (502–557).

Sales volume; the quantity of goods sold.

Sales; the extent to which goods sell or the market demand for a product.

To burn a CD or DVD.

To cremate; to burn a corpse.

Siu mai; a type of steamed dumpling with a pleated, open top, typically filled with pork and shrimp.

siu1 maan6 coeng4

蕭萬長萧万长

Vincent Siew, Taiwanese diplomat and politician who served as Premier and Vice President.

Siumai; a type of steamed Chinese dumpling.

To eliminate, vanish, or fade away.

To eliminate, clear up, or bring an end to a negative phenomenon.

Siu mei; a Cantonese style of roasted meats, very common in Hong Kong, including roast pork and soy sauce chicken.

To eliminate, annihilate, destroy, or make something cease to exist.

To kill or pass time, or to wear down gradually.

siu1 mo4 si4 gaan3

消磨時間消磨时间

To kill time; to pass the time.

To perish, die out, or cease to exist.

To singe, especially in textile processing to burn off stray fibers from fabric.

siu1 nei5 sau1 bou6

燒你收簿烧你收簿

Euphemism for a severe insult involving someone's mother.

siu1 nei5 sou3 bou6

燒你數簿烧你数簿

A euphemistic pun for "fuck your mother", literally meaning "burn your ledger".

To fire pottery; to bake clay in a kiln until it hardens.

Roast goose; goose seasoned and roasted in an oven.

To burn or get charred.

To close, cancel, or dismiss a registered case.

siu1 paai4 gwat1

燒排骨烧排骨

Roast spareribs.

siu1 paau3 zoeng2

燒炮仗烧炮仗

To light firecrackers; used figuratively to describe celebrating or gloating in an exaggerated, highly public manner.

Laboratory flask; a flask used in chemistry labs.

Natural, easy, and unrestrained; elegant and free from convention.

Confident, chic, and natural in style; elegant and unconventional.

Xiaoshan, a district of Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province.

siu1 saan1 keoi1

蕭山區萧山区

Xiaoshan, a district of Hangzhou City in Zhejiang Province, China.