Cantonese words starting with S

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Mt Song in Henan, central mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4]

to relax; not consolidated

to relinquish one's grip

sung1 si1 hyun2

鬆獅犬松狮犬

Chow Chow (dog breed)

sung1 sung1 jung4 jung4

從從容容从从容容

sung1 sung1 kwaa1 kwaa1

鬆鬆垮垮松松垮垮

to be slack and perfunctory; loose; not tight; insecure

to plow (loosen the soil)

high and steep mountains

terrified; to instigate

respectful; to raise (one's shoulders); to crane; to respect

to excite; to shrug; lofty; to urge on; to stir; shock

to shake (a part of one's body); to create a sensation

to shrug one's shoulders

sung2 jan4 ting1 man4

聳人聽聞耸人听闻

to sensationalize (idiom); deliberate exaggeration to scare people

sung2 jap6 wan4 siu1

聳入雲霄耸入云霄

go through the clouds; to describe a very tall mountain or a building

to instigate; to incite; to urge; to encourage

to urge someone to listen

surname Song; Song of the Southern Dynasties (420–479) 南朝宋[Nan2 chao2 Song4]

to deliver; to give (as a present); to see off; to dispatch; escort somone to; to lose; to give one's blessings; (dish ; drink etc) to accompany something else

Song Bai (936-1012), Northern Song literary man

to attend a funeral; to take part in a funeral procession

sung3 bei2 ngo5 dou1 m4 hau1 laa1

送俾我都唔吼啦

I would not want it even if it was given to me free [colloquial]

to see sb off; to bid farewell (to sb)

home delivery of meal

to cast flirtatious glances at sb (idiom)

送車尾送车尾

Song Ci (1186–1249), author of "Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified" 洗冤集錄|洗冤集录[Xi3 yuan1 Ji2 lu4] (1247), said to be the world's first forensic science text

Song Dynasty (960-1279)

James Soong (1942-), Taiwanese politician expelled from Guomindang in 2000 when he founded People First Party 親民黨|亲民党

the accompanying dishes to a meal

Song dynasty (960-1279)

sung3 fai1 zung1

Emperor Huizong (Song Dynasty)

sung3 fat6 sung3 dou3 sai1

送佛送到西

(to accompany Buddha all the way to the west); to help someone as long as help is needed

to deliver goods

sung3 fo3 dou3 gaa1

送貨到家送货到家

sung3 fo3 soeng5 mun4

送貨上門送货上门

home delivery service; to deliver to one's door

to wash the medicine down

sung3 gaau3 jan4

Song Jiaoren (1882-1913), politician of the revolutionary party involved in the 1911 Xinhai revolution, murdered in Shanghai in 1913

sung3 gau6 jing4 san1

送舊迎新送旧迎新

usher out the old, greet the new

to send someone to airport; to see someone off at an airport; airport drop-off