Cantonese words starting with T

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tiu1 hei2 baa2 fo2

To anger someone; to make someone angry.

tiu1 hei2 tiu4 jan5

挑起條癮挑起条瘾

To arouse someone's desire or craving to do something.

To provoke; to stir up conflict.

Overhanging eaves of a building.

Hair highlighting; a hair-dyeing method where only selected strands are colored.

To tease, provoke, or play with.

To speak plainly or expose something openly; to make something explicit.

tiu1 mou4 beng6

To nitpick; to find fault; to nag.

tiu1 mou4 tik1 ci3

To find fault or nitpick.

tiu1 mou4 tik1 ci3 ji4

挑毛剔刺兒挑毛剔刺儿

To nitpick; to find fault or be fastidious.

挑那媽挑那妈

An exclamation expressing irritation, anger, or frustration, equivalent to "fuck" or "shit".

tiu1 naa5 sing1

A highly offensive, vulgar exclamation used to express intense anger or annoyance.

tiu1 nei5 lou5 mei2

挑你鹵味挑你卤味

A euphemistic curse used to insult someone's mother.

tiu1 nei5 lou5 mou2

Fuck your mother; a milder phonetic euphemism for the highly offensive curse 𨳒你老母.

tiu1 nei5 si2 fat1

Up yours; a euphemism for a common Cantonese vulgarity.

tiu1 saam1 gaan2 sei3

挑三揀四挑三拣四

To be extremely picky; to choose and select fastidiously.

tiu1 saam1 wo1 sei3

挑三窩四挑三窝四

To sow discord; to stir up trouble and create conflict between people.

tiu1 saan1 gung1

Porters who carry cargo up and down mountains using shoulder poles.

To be picky about food; to be a picky eater.

To incite, instigate, or stir up trouble.

To choose, select, or pick out after careful consideration.

To take the lead or to pioneer.

挑頭兒挑头儿

To take the lead in an activity; to initiate something.

Fastidious, fussy, or hypercritical; to nitpick and find fault with minor details.

tiu1 tung1 ngaan5 mei4

Sharp-witted, experienced, and highly perceptive; able to read people and see right through them.

Picky or fussy about food.

To challenge to a contest or confrontation; to take on a difficult task.

tiu1 zin3 sing3

挑戰性挑战性

Challenging; demanding; having the nature of a challenge.

挑戰者挑战者

tiu1 zin3 ze2 hou6

挑戰者號挑战者号

Space Shuttle Challenger

To look into the distance.

To jump or leap; to throb, beat, or pulsate.

Springboard or gangway; also used figuratively as a stepping-stone.

To jump out or leap out of somewhere.

tiu3 ceot1 fo2 haang1

To escape from a living hell.

tiu3 ceot1 fu2 dai2 zeon3 fo2 haang1

跳出釜底進火坑跳出釜底进火坑

Out of the frying pan and into the fire.

To switch jobs, especially to another company within the same industry.

Ricochet; a bullet or projectile that rebounds off a surface.

To trip, referring to a circuit breaker or switch.

To move up and down, beat, or pulsate.

跳飛機跳飞机

Hopscotch; a children's playground game where players hop through a court drawn on the ground.

Hopscotch; a children's game of hopping through a grid drawn on the ground.

To traffic or deal in illegal drugs, especially heroin.

To jump or surge in price.

To stomp or hop about in anger, anxiety, or impatience.

To jump up; to leap upwards.

To skip, pass over, or jump through.

To commit suicide by jumping into a river.

To jump into the sea, usually in an attempt to commit suicide.