Cantonese words starting with W

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public cleanliness; environmental sanitation

waan4 wai6 gung1 jan4

環衛工人环卫工人

sanitation worker

to return from the grave

還魂紙还魂纸

loopback; surround

to settle a debt

stubborn illness; chronic disease

tricked; tortured (spoken)

temple; temporal (on the sides of one's head)

waan4 zeoi2 wat6

䴉嘴鷸鹮嘴鹬

(bird species of China) ibisbill (Ibidorhyncha struthersii)

to offer a return banquet

see 頑疾|顽疾[wan2 ji2]

(zoology) segment (of the body of a worm, centipede etc)

waan4 zit3 dung6 mat6

環節動物环节动物

waan4 zit3 dung6 mat6 mun4

環節動物門环节动物门

Annelidan, the phylum of annelid worms

to settle and account

annular; loop-shaped

waan4 zong6 lit6 sek6

環狀列石环状列石

circular standing stones

to return to normal life (leaving a monastic order)

eastern shield-backed katydid (genus Atlanticus)

knowledgeable about

to pull; to roll up; to carry on the arm; (fig.) to pull against; to pull back

to pull; to roll up; to carry on the arm; (fig.) to pull against; to mourn; late; to ogger condolence

old variant of 晚近[wan3 jin4]

to save; to rescue

verb; literally: carry the shoe; Metaphor, look down on someone; or, to serve someone

to urge to stay

pulling power (of draft animals)

elegiac couplet

to rescue a situation

large elegiac scroll

imperial official; a surname

to suffer (from illness); misfortune; danger

to rear; to feed (animal)

waan6 beng6 ze2

person suffering (from a disease or poisoning)

waan6 dak1 waan6 sat1

to worry about personal gains and losses