Cantonese words starting with S

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To recover illegally obtained property, capture assets, or levy items or fees.

Pedicure; to trim the toenails, shave off dead skin, and treat corns or calluses on the feet.

修腳師修脚师

To pull back on the reins; used figuratively to tell someone to stop or to cool it.

To amend, revise, alter, or modify a document or physical object.

To harvest, reap, or gather in mature crops.

收割機收割机

A harvester; a reaping machine used in agriculture.

Reaper; harvester.

To finish up or wrap up an event or project; the final phase of a game of Go.

To get off work for the day, or to finish and wrap up a piece of work.

sau1 haai4 zoeng6

Cobbler; a person who repairs shoes.

sau1 haang4 seoi2

To collect tolls at checkpoints along river waterways.

An intended effect, result, or efficacy of an action.

To hold a traditional semiannual ceremony of purification.

The amount of practice or effort put into acquiring a skill, typically a spiritual or religious one.

sau1 hang6 jan4

A practitioner of a religion or spiritual discipline, especially in Buddhism or Taoism.

To shut up; used to tell someone to stop talking, especially when they are making things worse.

sau1 hau2 naan4 hoi1

羞口難開羞口难开

To be too embarrassed to speak; too shy or ashamed to open one's mouth.

To pack up, put away, or retract something.

Shy; timid or bashful.

To watch a television programme, livestream, or broadcast.

To mend relations; to make up and reconcile after a falling-out.

To blush with shame or shyness.

Voicing; the adjustment of timbre, loudness, and other acoustic qualities of a musical instrument.

收音機收音机

Radio receiver; a device that receives radio waves and converts them into audible sound.

Shameful, embarrassing, or disgraceful; to make a fool of oneself.

Income, revenue, or earnings; money earned.

An exclamation used when worshiping ancestors to ask them to receive the burnt offerings.

Income, revenue, or proceeds before deducting costs.

sau1 jik1 leot2

Earnings rate, yield, or rate of return.

sau1 jik1 zoeng3 wu6

收益帳戶收益帐户

Income account, used in accountancy to track revenue.

To study, research, or pursue academic knowledge.

Moral and intellectual sophistication, or the sum of one's character traits.

To adopt; to take in and bring up orphans or abandoned animals.

To humiliate or put someone to shame; to cause someone to lose their self-respect.

To take in, house, or care for people or animals in need.

sau1 jung4 gaau3 juk6

Custody and education; an administrative punishment formerly used in mainland China for prostitution.

sau1 jung4 jan4

An inmate or person taken in and housed by an institution.

A shelter or refuge, providing temporary housing or care for people or animals in need.

sau1 jyu1 kai2 ci2

羞於啟齒羞于启齿

To be too shy, embarrassed, or hesitant to speak one's mind.

Seminary, monastery, or convent; a Christian religious institution.

To purchase, acquire, or buy out, especially in a business context.

sau1 kiu4 bou2 lou6

修橋補路修桥补路

To build bridges and repair roads; to perform charitable acts and good deeds.

sau1 kiu4 zing2 lou6

修橋整路修桥整路

To build bridges and repair roads; to perform good deeds and acts of charity.

Construction plan or specifications.

To accept bribes.

sau1 kwai3 naan4 dong1

羞愧難當羞愧难当

To feel overwhelmingly ashamed, embarrassed, or humiliated.

Feeling ashamed or guilty about one's own actions.