Cantonese words starting with W

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suffer from injustice

(interjection) (of answering phone calls) hello

military officer

to comfort; to reassure

to fear; awe; to respect

dirt; unclean; obscene; wanton

Artemisia japonica; resplendent; colourful; illness; to get together; sky blue

to satisfy one's hunger; to satisfy someone's sexual appetite [colloquial]

to feed (a baby)

two-character surname Yuchi

尉遲恭尉迟恭

General Yuchi Gong (585-658), famous military man instrumental in founding the Tang dynasty

to be arrested by fear; scruple

to fear; foreboding

(literary) to mushroom

timid; scared; cowardly

wai3 jan4 naai5

餵人奶喂人奶

to breast-feed;breast nursing;breastfeeding

wai3 jin4 sing4 fung1

蔚然成風蔚然成风

to have become common practice (idiom)

to feed (a child, domestic animal etc); to raise (an animal)

obscene language

Yu County or Yuxian, a county in Zhangjiakou City 張家口市|张家口市[Zhang1 jia1 kou3 Shi4], Hebei

azure; sky-blue

see 尉犁縣|尉犁县[Yu4 li2 Xian4]

wai3 lai4 jyun6

尉犁縣尉犁县

Yuli, a county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州[Ba1 yin1 guo1 leng2 Meng3 gu3 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang

to persuade (employees) to stay; to urge someone to stay on

to feed (also fig.)

Wei Lao (c. 450 BC, dates of birth and death unknown), advisor to the first Qin emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2], possible author of the Wei Liaozi 尉繚子|尉缭子[Wei4 Liao2 zi5] text on military strategy

尉繚子尉缭子

Wei Liaozi, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1], possibly written by Wei Liao 尉繚|尉缭[Wei4 Liao2] during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)

to show appreciation (by kind words, small gifts etc)

wai3 lou5 fu2 gei1

餵老虎機喂老虎机

spend a lot of money on(gambling) slot machine; to insert coins into a parking meter

wai3 lou5 fu2（ gei1）

餵老虎（機）喂老虎（机）

to insert coins into a parking meter [written and colloquial]

Yemaek, ancient ethnic group of Manchuria and Korea, precursors of Korean Goguryeo kingdom

to express sympathy, greetings, consolation etc

慰問金慰问金

Consolation money

wai3 man6 seon3

慰問信慰问信

Condolence letters

餵母乳喂母乳

to feed with milk

fear of difficulties (為難 wai2 naan4- put somebody in a difficult position)

慰安婦慰安妇

comfort woman (woman or girl forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military 1937-1945) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 慰安婦 "ianfu")

wai3 sau2 wai3 mei5

afraid of the head, terrified of the tail (idiom); ever fearful and nervous

see 尉氏縣|尉氏县[Wei4 shi4 Xian4]

尉氏縣尉氏县

Weishi, a county in Kaifeng City 開封市|开封市[Kai1 feng1 Shi4], Henan

to afford (a magnificent view etc)