Cantonese words starting with W

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Mong Kok; a bustling commercial district in Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Peak season; a busy period of the year with high business activity and sales.

A busy, popular, and bustling area or district with high pedestrian traffic.

A shop or retail premise located in a busy, prosperous, or crowded area of a city.

To bring about a lot of business, or to sell well.

Vigorous, exuberant, or full of vitality.

To be extremely busy with customers, particularly in sex work; also a protest-era abbreviation for Mong Kok and Admiralty.

To lean over or bend down; to stoop.

Onomatopoeia for a toot, hoot, or the sound of sobbing.

Black or dark-colored.

Tungsten, a chemical element with symbol W and atomic number 74; a very hard transition metal.

Crow; a type of entirely black bird with a raspy cawing sound.

烏鴉口乌鸦口

A doomsayer, or someone who makes inauspicious comments.

Cuttlefish or squid; decapodiform marine molluscs with ten arms that can eject ink.

To stoop, bend down, or lean forward.

烏低身乌低身

To bend down; to bend one's upper body forward towards the ground.

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烏燈黑火乌灯黑火

Pitch-black; completely dark and lightless.

Black soybean; black bean.

A physical stain or blemish, or a metaphorical slur or disgrace on one's reputation.

wu1 doeng1 doeng1

烏啄啄乌啄啄

Silly, muddleheaded, or slow-witted.

Udon; a thick Japanese noodle made from wheat flour.

烏冬麵乌冬面

Silkie; a breed of chicken with black skin, bones, and meat.

Unpalatable and hard to swallow, or figuratively difficult to deal with.

Dirt, filth, or grime accumulated from dirty substances.

烏干達乌干达

Uganda; a country in East Africa with its capital at Kampala.

A turtle or tortoise; figuratively used to describe a cowardly, irresponsible person.

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烏吓烏吓乌吓乌吓

Disoriented, dazed, or unable to concentrate, typically due to fatigue or lack of sleep.

烏克蘭乌克兰

Ukraine, a country in Eastern Europe whose capital is Kyiv.

Fierce, domineering, or tyrannical.

wu1 ji5 dou1 jyu5

烏爾都語乌尔都语

Urdu, the national language of Pakistan and one of India's official languages.

To pollute or contaminate; to harm by introducing harmful or unwanted substances.

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污煙障氣污烟障气

Chaotic disorder, pandemonium, or a foul atmosphere.

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烏煙瘴氣乌烟瘴气

Foul, messy, and unpleasant, describing a chaotic or polluted environment.

Fly or housefly; a common household pest that feeds on decaying matter and spreads disease.

wu1 jing1 lau1 maa5 mei5

烏蠅摟馬尾乌蝇搂马尾

To break up a joint enterprise or relationship where both parties lose; a complete split.

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烏蠅拍乌蝇拍

To sob or whimper; to cry softly with low-pitched sounds.

To violate, defile, or disgrace, often used as a euphemism for rape.

烏溪沙乌溪沙

Wu Kai Sha, an area in Sha Tin District, Hong Kong.

wu1 laai1 gwai1

烏拉圭乌拉圭

Uruguay; a country in southeastern South America, with its capital at Montevideo.

Black Chinese olive (Canarium pimela); a species of olive tree and its fruit.

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烏蘭巴托乌兰巴托

Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia.

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烏厘單刀乌厘单刀

In complete chaos, muddled, or messy.

wu1 lei1 daan1 dou1

烏喱單刀乌喱单刀

Messy, chaotic, disordered, or muddled.

wu1 lei1 maa5 caa1

烏喱馬扠乌喱马叉

Messy, untidy, or in a complete muddle.

wu1 lei1 maa5 caa5

烏喱馬杈乌喱马杈

Messy, untidy, or illegible, usually referring to writing or drawing.

wu1 li1 maa5 caa5

污哩馬查污哩马查

To be in a complete mess, in total chaos, or highly disorganized.

wu1 lou5 muk6 cai4

烏魯木齊乌鲁木齐

Urumqi; the capital city of Xinjiang in northwestern China.