Cantonese words starting with S

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審計署审计署

Audit Commission; a government department responsible for auditing public accounts and assessing efficiency.

To examine, verify, and approve; to audit.

To review, deliberate, or examine and discuss in detail.

Shenyang; the capital city of Liaoning province in northeastern China.

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瀋陽故宮沈阳故宫

Mukden Palace, also known as the Shenyang Imperial Palace.

To try a case; to hear and adjudicate a court case.

To interrogate or closely question, usually when the person is suspected of doing something wrong.

To appreciate, enjoy, or study beauty; aesthetic.

審美觀审美观

One's aesthetic sense, standards of beauty, or appreciation of aesthetics.

Aunt, specifically the wife of one's father's younger brother.

To examine and approve; to process and authorize an application.

To try a case in court, examine evidence, and pass judgment or sentence.

Wife of father's younger brother, or a polite form of address for a middle-aged woman.

Cautious, circumspect, and careful; thinking things through thoroughly.

Trial or hearing; a court proceeding presided over by a judge where lawyers present cases and question witnesses.

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審時度勢审时度势

To evaluate and size up the situation; to assess the current state of affairs.

To ooze, seep, or slowly diffuse in or out.

To seep, permeate, or filter into.

To leak or seep, especially of a liquid through a crack or gap.

To permeate, seep, or pass through; osmosis; to infiltrate or gradually influence.

A Chinese surname, typically romanized as Sham, Shum, Sum, or Sam.

Sincere; sincerity.

To overflow, weep, or rain; or to be swollen.

Faithful, or to believe.

To ooze or flow down continuously, such as tears, sweat, or rain.

What; used to ask about the identity of something.

Very; extremely.

Mulberry; the fruit of the mulberry tree.

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什麼時間什么时间

What time; what day or period.

Even; to the extent that; so much so that.

Even; so far as to.

甚至無什至无

Even; even though; even if.

To stretch, extend, or stick out.

To complain, vent, or express one's discontent or distress.

Newly, freshly, or recently.

Xenon (Xe), a chemical element.

Used in personal names.

To state, explain, or express.

Gentry, sash, or to tie.

A measure word for a quantity of things, often referring to a beating, a coat of paint, or clothes worn on the body.

Spicy or hot; also hard, laborious, and suffering.

Zinc; the chemical element with atomic number 30 and symbol Zn, classified as a transition metal.

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新亞書院新亚书院

New Asia College, a constituent college of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

New World First Bus, a former major bus operator in Hong Kong.

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身敗名裂身败名裂

To lose all standing, status, and reputation; to be utterly ruined and discredited.

To bid for or apply for the right to host an event or activity.

New Taipei City, a special municipality located in northern Taiwan.

To regret a stupid action and complain about it.