Cantonese words starting with S

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Algae or other aquatic plants.

seoi2 zuk6 gun2

水族館水族馆

Aquarium or marine park; a venue where aquatic plants and animals are kept for public viewing or research.

seoi2 zuk6 soeng1

Aquarium; a transparent container used for keeping fish, aquatic plants, and other aquatic creatures.

In the water; underwater.

Edema or dropsy; swelling in the body caused by the excessive accumulation of fluid.

Sichuan style water-boiling; poaching ingredients in a spiced broth to preserve tenderness.

Handsome; stylish and good-looking.

Years of age; a classifier used to measure a person's age.

Broken, shattered, or fragmented into small pieces.

Taxes; duty; tariff.

To molt, slough, or cast off skin; also refers to the shed skin itself.

Small, quick, and rapid steps.

Loose change; small coins or bills of low denomination.

Tax base; the total amount of assets or revenue that a government can tax.

Handsome, stylish, and cool-looking.

Years and months, or the passing of time.

Tax rate; the percentage of tax levied on income or goods.

Trivia; an unimportant matter or a piece of cake.

The end of the year, typically referring to the end of the lunar year.

Coins; small-denomination loose change.

Fragment; piece; a part broken off from a whole.

seoi3 sap1 sap1

碎濕濕碎湿湿

Scattered, tiny, fragmented, or messy; describe small and miscellaneous items.

To cut up a corpse into pieces; to dismember a corpse.

seoi3 si1 maan6 dyun6

碎屍萬段碎尸万段

To chop a corpse into thousands of pieces, typically used in threats.

Age; a person's age.

Tax regulations or customs tariff.

Scraps of paper, or loose small change.

碎紙機碎纸机

Paper shredder; a machine used to shred documents into thin strips for destruction.

On the verge of, close to, or approaching.

Who; whom; whoever; anyone.

Frontier; borderland.

誰不知谁不知

Who would have thought; unexpectedly; to one's surprise.

Appreciation, high regard, or preferential treatment, usually for someone who is outstanding.

To fish with a rod, hook, and line.

Who; which person.

To salivate; to drool over something, or metaphorically to covet or strongly desire it.

seoi4 jin4 juk6 dik6

To drool with desire; to water at the mouth.

seoi4 jin4 saam1 cek3

To drool three feet; extremely desirous of food or to possess something.

To shed tears; to cry or weep.

Critically ill; close to death.

seoi4 sau2 ho2 dak1

To get or reach something easily; to obtain effortlessly.

Dying, moribund, or on the verge of death.

seoi4 sei2 zang1 zaat3

垂死掙扎垂死挣扎

To put up a final, desperate struggle or make a last-ditch effort before death or failure.

seoi4 tau4 song3 hei3

垂頭喪氣垂头丧气

Dejected, dispirited, or downcast due to failure or frustration.

Perpendicular or vertical; forming a right angle or running straight up and down.

A villa or country house.

To slide down a smooth, low-friction surface.

Cotton wadding, or soft, fine plant fibers such as those on willow catkins.

Thought; thread of thought or ideas.