Cantonese words starting with T

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To do something half-heartedly just to get by, or to dodge a question or duty with excuses.

Soft-boiled or runny, referring to an egg yolk that is half-cooked.

Catfish, specifically a freshwater fish of the Clariidae family.

Airbreathing catfish; a freshwater edible fish with whiskers that is active at night.

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塘蝨魚塘虱鱼

Airbreathing catfish, a family of freshwater fish capable of breathing air.

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Tang Soo Do, a Korean martial art.

Tong sui; a sweet, soupy Cantonese dessert made with a wide variety of ingredients.

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塘水滾塘魚塘水滚塘鱼

An insular business situation where people only trade among themselves, limiting growth because the market cannot expand.

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糖水舖糖水铺

Dessert shop selling tong sui (traditional Chinese sweet soup).

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唐順宗唐顺宗

Emperor Shunzong of Tang, the eleventh emperor of the Tang dynasty.

Tang poetry; poems from the Tang Dynasty, typically consisting of four or eight lines of five or seven characters each.

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唐詩三百首唐诗三百首

Three Hundred Tang Poems, a classic anthology of poems from the Tang Dynasty.

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唐詩詠唐诗咏

Natalie Tong, a Hong Kong actress.

唐氏兒唐氏儿

A child with Down syndrome.

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Down syndrome; Down's syndrome.

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唐氏綜合症唐氏综合症

Rifling; the helical grooves inside the barrel of a gun or firearm.

唐紹儀唐绍仪

Tang Shaoyi, a prominent politician and diplomat of the late Qing dynasty and early Republic of China.

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唐殤帝唐殇帝

Emperor Shang of Tang, fifth emperor of the Tang dynasty.

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唐肅宗唐肃宗

Emperor Suzong of Tang, eighth emperor of the Tang dynasty.

The Tang and Song dynasties of China.

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唐宋八大家

The eight giants of Tang and Song prose.

The Book of Tang, referring to the dynastic histories of the Tang Dynasty.

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Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, seventeenth emperor of the Tang dynasty, who reigned from 846 to 859.

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Emperor Taizong of Tang, second emperor of the Tang dynasty.

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唐太宗李衛公問對唐太宗李卫公问对

Duke Li of Wei Answering Emperor Taizong of Tang, a classic Chinese military treatise.

Dignified, majestic, or magnificent in appearance or status.

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Open and aboveboard; fair and square; doing things in an honest, fair, and transparent manner.

The central room of a traditional Chinese house.

Crisp sugar ring; a deep-fried, golden-brown ring-shaped Cantonese pastry eaten during the Lunar New Year.

Don Juan; a dandy or womanizer.

Grand, imposing, and magnificent in appearance or scale.

糖葫蘆糖葫芦

Sugar-coated Chinese hawthorn or other fruit on a bamboo skewer.

Xuanzang, the Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and translator who traveled to India.

Syrup; a thick, sweet liquid made by dissolving sugar in water.

A cousin's son; a nephew by the male line with the same surname.

Older female cousin on one's father's side sharing the same paternal grandfather.

Glycolipid; a lipid with a carbohydrate attached by a glycosidic bond.

Female cousins sharing the same paternal grandfather.

Chinese characters.

Saccharin; an artificial sweetener.

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Toshodai-ji, a Buddhist temple in Nara, Japan founded by the Tang dynasty monk Jianzhen.

Syrup; a very sweet, thick liquid used for making desserts or flavoring drinks.

Tangzhuang; a traditional Chinese jacket with a mandarin collar and frog buttons.

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唐裝衫唐装衫

Tangzhuang; a traditional Chinese clothing style originating from the Qing Dynasty.

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Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, the fourth Tang emperor.

A kind of cloth hat worn in ancient China.

To overflow or pour out; to be filled with.

Ribbon, cord, or braid; also used as a variant character for polyester (terylene).