Cantonese words starting with W

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Bad person; villain, scoundrel, or wrongdoer.

waai6 dou3 gaa1 ling4 jat1

壞到加零一坏到加零一

Extremely bad; as bad as it can get.

waai6 hyut3 beng6

壞血病坏血病

Scurvy; a disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin C.

Evil intentions; bad thoughts or malice.

Bad thing; an evil, immoral, or harmful deed.

Vicious, malicious, or critical remarks about someone behind their back.

waai6 zaap6 gwaan3

壞習慣坏习惯

Bad habit; an undesirable habit.

Broken, out of order, or no longer functioning.

To divide; to partition; to split a thing into two or more parts.

To confuse, be confused, or be puzzled; to lack a clear understanding of something.

Possibly; perhaps; maybe.

The sound of flaying, cutting, or tearing open.

Onomatopoeia for a sharp cracking, slashing, or ripping sound.

To sign, make a mark, or place a fingerprint on official documents, especially when unable to write.

waak6 beng2 cung1 gei1

畫餅充飢画饼充饥

To feed on illusions, or use fantasy to comfort oneself; literally to draw a flatbread to satisfy hunger.

waak6 dei6 wai4 lou4

畫地為牢画地为牢

To restrict oneself to a narrow range of activities; to draw a circle on the ground as a prison.

waak6 do1 waak6 siu2

More or less; in varying degrees; to some extent.

To write a letter.

waak6 faa1 hau2 min6

劃花口面划花口面

To scratch or scar someone's face.

waak6 faa1 hau2 min6

畫花口面画花口面

To spread rumors that distort the truth and defame someone's reputation.

To divide up, partition, or delimit into smaller units or parts.

An artistic style of painting or drawing.

waak6 gung1 zai2 m4 sai2 waak6 ceot1 coeng2

畫公仔唔使畫出腸画公仔唔使画出肠

No need to spell it out; there is no need to disclose every single detail to make oneself understood.

waak6 gung1 zai2 m4 sai2 waak6 ceot1 coeng2

畫公仔唔駛畫出腸画公仔唔驶画出肠

No need to spell it out; there is no need to make something so obvious that it becomes vulgar or redundant.

waak6 gung1 zai2 waak6 ceot1 coeng4

畫公仔畫出腸画公仔画出肠

To spell things out; to explain something so explicitly that there is no room for nuance.

To sign one's name; to put down one's signature or mark.

waak6 gwai2 goek3

畫鬼腳画鬼脚

Ghost Leg, a traditional Asian game and decision-making method played by drawing and tracing paths on a grid.

Maybe; perhaps; possibly.

To standardize, uniform, or make consistent.

To ask for financial support; to raise or ask for money.

waak6 se4 tim1 zuk1

畫蛇添足画蛇添足

To ruin the effect by adding something superfluous; to overdo it and make things worse.

劃時代划时代

Epoch-making; marking the beginning of a new era or representing a groundbreaking moment.

To draw or paint a picture; to express reality or imagery using lines and dots.

畫則師画则师

Or; expressing a choice between two alternatives.

To draw a blueprint; to design a building plan.

Curved; bent; crooked; not straight.

The changed tone of 灣 (waan1), used as the final syllable of a place name.

Scimitar, machete, or any other type of curved sword or knife.

Curvature or degree of bending.

To bend down; to bend one's upper body forward from the waist.

A crescent moon.

waan1 keoi1 zit6 wan6

灣區捷運湾区捷运

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), the rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area.

Curved, winding, or crooked; not straight.

Beautiful; graceful.

Wan Chai; a commercial area on Hong Kong Island located east of Admiralty and west of Causeway Bay.

waan1 zai2 gaai1 si5

灣仔街市湾仔街市

Wan Chai Market, a wet market located in Hong Kong.

waan1 zai2 keoi1

灣仔區湾仔区

Wan Chai District, located in Hong Kong.

A ring, hoop, or circular object, especially an ornament.