Cantonese words starting with T

2,187 entries

To be discharged or retired from military service.

To restitute, refund, or compensate for.

To recover from a fever; for a fever to go down or break.

To shrink back, flinch, or evade when encountering difficulties or fear.

To withdraw from an election or competition.

To adjourn a court session or for a court hearing to end.

To return something received, especially when a business refunds money to a customer.

To abdicate a throne or resign from a high position.

To exchange or replace a purchased item that is defective or unsuitable.

To resign from a job, office, or position; to quit working.

To leave a meeting or a banquet, or to walk out.

To terminate a tenancy, cancel a lease, or surrender a rented property.

Dejected, dispirited, or listless; lacking energy, passion, and hope.

A cheap, simple meal typically served in university canteens, consisting of basic ingredients like spam or sausage.

Dispirited, disheartened, or lacking the motivation to do anything.

Dejected, dispirited, and listless; lacking the motivation to improve oneself and feeling like a failure.

To rush or flow rapidly, or a stretch of rapids in a river.

To foretell the future using the trigrams of the I Ching, or a hedgehog.

Shield; a protective piece of armor used to block attacks.

ti1 seot1 saam1

Unrestrained, free, and easy; magnanimous.

To move something, especially in a casual, careless, or offhand manner.

Nervous, timid, or uneasy.

To err, to be excessive, or to be changeable.

To be cautious, careful, or fearful.

To ask for a loan, borrow, or beg.

To remove or exclude someone or something; to weed out; to take off a list.

剔手邊剔手边

The Chinese radical representing a hand, written on the left side of a character.

To add or increase the quantity of something.

To replenish, add to, or recruit.

To have a baby; to add a new child, traditionally a son, to the family.

To refill or add more rice to a bowl.

To add or increase.

添加劑添加剂

Additive; substances artificially added to a product to achieve specific functions or effects.

Tamar, an area in Central, Hong Kong, and the site of the former British naval base and current government headquarters.

tim1 maa5 laam6

添馬艦添马舰

Tamar; the Tamar area in Hong Kong, formerly a British naval base HMS Tamar, now the site of the Central Government Offices.

To repeat a successful formula to achieve a similar result; to make a sequel or spin-off.

tim1 zi1 gaa1 jip6

添枝加葉添枝加叶

To embellish, exaggerate, or add unnecessary details to a story.

To buy or acquire new items, such as furniture, equipment, decorations, or other belongings.

To bring shame to; to be ashamed or disgraced.

To manipulate or fiddle with something.

Sweet, having the taste of sugar; delicious or fresh.

Dessert; a sweet snack, usually not eaten as part of a main meal.

Sweet black vinegar; a Cantonese rice vinegar brewed with glutinous rice and seasoned with sugar, ginger, and aged tangerine peel.

Dessert; sweet food or snacks eaten after a meal, such as cakes or sweet soups.

Very sweet in taste.

Too sweet; unpleasantly sweet.

Slightly cloyingly sweet; too sweet.

tim4 jin4 mat6 jyu5

甜言蜜語甜言蜜语

Sweet talk; flattering and honeyed words used to coax or please someone.

Sweet and happy, typically used to describe a romantic relationship.