Cantonese words starting with T

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To be discharged or retired from military service.

teoi3 ng5 gwan1 jan4

退伍軍人退伍军人

A veteran; a retired member of the military.

teoi3 ng5 gwan1 jan4 zit3

退伍軍人節退伍军人节

Veterans Day; a holiday or day of remembrance for military veterans.

To molt, shed skin, or slough; the skin cast off during molting.

To eject a disc or tape from a media player.

To refund a ticket, or to bounce a check.

To restitute, refund, or compensate for.

To retreat and defend; to withdraw to a position to hold it.

To divert water or drain away water.

Tax rebate or refund.

teoi3 si1 jyun4

退思園退思园

Retreat and Reflection Garden, a classical garden in Tongli, Jiangsu.

To fade; to lose color.

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

teoi3 siu1 joek6

退燒藥退烧药

Antipyretic; medication used to reduce a fever.

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

To withdraw from an election or competition.

Toktoghan, a Mongol politician and prime minister during the Yuan dynasty who compiled three dynastic histories.

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 send back, return, or reject an item; also to go back or retreat.

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

退換貨退换货

To return or exchange a purchased product.

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.

To decay, ruin, or become corrupt and dilapidated.

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.

teoi4 fai3 paai3

頹廢派颓废派

Decadents of the late 19th-century European Decadent movement.

Decadent, degenerate, or dispiritedly abandoned.

A degenerate custom, decadent trend, or corrupt practice.

A scene of dilapidation, decline, or desolation.

Dejected and disappointed; also used to describe being old and decrepit.

Old and decrepit.

Devastated, despondent, or dejected.

Decaying or decrepit.

To collapse, ruin, or decay.

A declining trend or a situation of decline in fortunes.

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

To collapse, crumble, or decay.

Dejected, dispirited, and lacking in morale.

Dilapidated, ruined, or broken down.

Listless, spiritless, or lacking in energy and enthusiasm.

Declining fortune or crumbling fate.

teoi4 wun4 dyun6 bik1

頹垣斷壁颓垣断壁

Ruins; walls reduced to rubble.

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

Rapid or torrential flow of water.

Turbulence; turbulent flow.