Cantonese words starting with T

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Yukawa; an obsolete unit of length equal to 10⁻¹⁵ meters, used for measuring atomic distances.

Soup base or stock used as an ingredient for cooking.

Subdivided housing unit; an apartment partitioned into several smaller, separate units for rent.

Tonga; an island nation in the southwestern Pacific Ocean with its capital at Nuku'alofa.

To produce horrible, screeching sounds by singing or playing string instruments poorly.

Thick soup, or a soup spoon.

tong1 gwong1 zyu1

劏光豬劏光猪

To strip naked or be stripped naked.

To rip off or overcharge customers.

tong1 hin2 ming4

湯顯明汤显明

Timothy Tong, a former Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hong Kong.

To cut open, or to partition a flat into smaller units.

Soup ladle; a large spoon-shaped utensil used for scooping soup.

tong1 jing4 jing4

湯盈盈汤盈盈

Angela Tong, a Hong Kong actress.

tong1 joek6 fai3

湯藥費汤药费

Payment for medical bills, usually as compensation for injuries.

Glutinous rice balls; a sweet dessert made of sticky rice flour often served in hot water or sweet soup.

Sweet glutinous rice balls served in hot soup, typically filled with sesame, red bean, or peanut.

tong1 lik6 seoi2

湯力水汤力水

Noodles served in soup.

To butcher a snake, or slang for a hand job.

tong1 sei2 ngau4

To mug or rob someone, especially in a dark alley or quiet place.

Cantonese-style soup, typically home-made for family members.

A soup bowl; a type of bowl that is larger and deeper than a standard rice bowl.

Soup ladle; a long-handled utensil with a deep bowl at the end used for serving soup.

To slaughter a pig, or figuratively to refer to a woman's high-pitched squealing.

tong1 zyu1 dang3

劏豬凳劏猪凳

A derogatory expression for a woman believed to bring bad luck or misfortune to her husband.

To poke or stab; to pierce, or to injure someone with a sharp pointed object.

To drip, trickle, or flow out.

A traditional wooden farm tool used for leveling soil or weeding paddies.

To lie down; to recline.

A ranseur, a fork-like spear weapon.

To lie down; to fall down and lie flat.

If; in the event that; in case.

A paddy-field harrow; a wooden farming tool used to level soil or clear weeds.

To iron; to make clothes flat and smooth using an iron.

To feel hot to the touch.

Classifier used for the number of trips or journeys taken.

An iron; a household appliance with a flat metal bottom used, when heated, to press and smooth wrinkles in clothes.

To perm hair, using chemicals or heat to curl or straighten it.

A traditional Chinese wooden sliding security door made of horizontal bars.

Sliding door; a door opened by sliding horizontally along a track.

To iron clothes.

To iron clothes.

tong3 saam1 baan2

An ironing board.

tong3 saam1 baan2

燙衫板烫衫板

An ironing board; also used as a slang term for a flat-chested woman.

tong3 sau2 saan1 wu6

燙手山芋烫手山芋

Hot potato; a thorny and troublesome issue that nobody wants to take over.

Chinese; pertaining to Chinese culture or people.

Female; pertaining to women.

A pool or pond, especially a man-made one.

To ward off or keep out, to spread or smear a substance, or to perform a duty perfunctorily.

Cherry apple or wild plum.