Cantonese words starting with T

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To deliberate; to repeatedly think over, weigh, or consider carefully.

To implement; to put a plan into action or practice.

To push towards, to drive towards, or to steer something in a certain direction.

To push someone.

To modestly decline or turn down a position, favor, or invitation.

To reason or infer; the logical process of connecting cause and effect.

Inference; the process of drawing a conclusion through deduction or induction.

Tui na; a form of traditional Chinese therapeutic massage.

teoi1 paai4 gau2

To play Pai Gow, a Chinese gambling game played with dominoes.

teoi1 saam1 teoi1 sei3

To refuse to do something by repeatedly making excuses; to procrastinate or stall.

teoi1 sam1 zi3 fuk1

To treat someone with utmost sincerity.

To shirk or shift responsibility onto other people.

teoi1 se3 zaak3 jam6

推卸責任推卸责任

To shift the blame; to pass the buck or shirk responsibility.

A guessing game played with dice.

To promote sales, market, or peddle goods or services by persuading people to buy or use them.

To push, deliver, or send; particularly used for digital push notifications.

To esteem, admire, or think highly of.

To elect, nominate, or select someone through recommendation.

To estimate, reckon, or calculate a prediction based on historical data.

To make an excuse in order to decline or avoid a responsibility.

To offer excuses in order to reject or evade doing something.

To push and squeeze past people, or to crowd and jostle one's way through.

To push forward, propel, or drive something onward, including in progress or physical movement.

To promote, push forward, or drive the development of a cause.

To recommend, present, or nominate a person or thing.

To decline, reject, or back out; to pass the buck.

Leg or limb; also a shorthand for ham.

Leg or hip bone.

A historical Mongolian name, referring to figures such as Tuotuo (Toqto'a), a prominent minister of the Yuan dynasty.

To move back, decline, recede, or decrease.

To retreat or withdraw troops.

To fall behind, regress, or deteriorate in performance.

To quit, withdraw, or end a relationship or connection with a person, group, or organisation.

To refund money to a customer.

The ebbing of a tide; to ebb, or figuratively to retreat in trend.

To deteriorate or degenerate, especially of bodily functions over time.

teoi3 faa3 zat6 beng6

Degenerative disease.

To return purchased goods or merchandise to a shop for a refund or exchange.

To check out of a hotel room.

To refund; to return money collected from a buyer.

To step back, move backward, or retreat.

To bring down a fever; to relieve feverish heat.

To shed a shell; to molt.

To drop out, quit, or leave school before graduating.

To retire from public life or withdraw from society.

To retire; to stop working, usually because of age or having saved enough money to rest and enjoy life.

teoi3 jau1 gam1

Pension; a retirement benefit paid to retired employees regularly or as a lump sum.

teoi3 ji4 kau4 kei4 ci3

退而求其次

To settle for the next best thing when the ideal option is unavailable.

To retire from military service, or of athletes, to retire from professional competition.

To make concessions, yield, or step back in order to avoid conflict.