Cantonese words starting with W

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wong6 cong1 jyun6

旺蒼縣旺苍县

Wangcang, a county in Guangyuan, Sichuan Province.

wong6 ding1 m4 wong6 coi4

旺丁唔旺財旺丁唔旺财

To attract large crowds or have a growing household, but without generating wealth or profit.

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

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

Busy month; peak season for business.

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.

Used in the term "靰鞡" (wu4 la5), referring to a type of traditional leather shoe worn in Northeast China.

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.

烏鴉嘴乌鸦嘴

Crow's beak; also used to describe a person who makes harbinger statements or brings bad luck with their words.

烏鴉座乌鸦座

Corvus; a constellation in the southern sky.

烏壓壓乌压压

Dark, dense, and looming; forming a thick, swarming mass of people or things.

烏拜迪乌拜迪

Ubaydi, a town in Iraq.

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

烏齊雅乌齐雅

Uzziah, a king of Judah.

wu1 cat1 baat3 zou1

In a complete mess; chaotic, filthy, or ruined.

wu1 cat1 baat3 zou1

烏七八糟乌七八糟

In complete disorder; messy, filthy, or obscene.

wu1 cat1 mak6 hak1

烏漆墨黑乌漆墨黑

Pitch-black, extremely dark, or pitch-dark.

wu1 cat1 mut3 hak1

烏漆抹黑乌漆抹黑

Pitch-black; pitch-dark; completely dark with nothing visible.

Bruise; black and blue mark on the skin.

Wuda district of Wuhai city, Inner Mongolia.

wu1 daat6 keoi1

烏達區乌达区

Wuda, a district of Wuhai City in Inner Mongolia.

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.

wu1 dak1 lak6 zi1

烏德勒支乌德勒支

Utrecht, a city and province in the Netherlands.

wu1 dak6 lit6 zi1

烏特列支乌特列支

Utrecht, a city in the Netherlands.

wu1 dang1 hak1 fo2

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.

Greater spotted eagle (Clanga clanga); a species of bird of prey.

烏鵰鴞乌雕鸮

Dusky eagle-owl (Ketupa coromanda).

wu1 doeng1 doeng1

烏啄啄乌啄啄

Silly, muddleheaded, or slow-witted.

Wudang, a district in Guiyang, Guizhou province.

wu1 dong1 keoi1

烏當區乌当区

Wudang, a district of Guiyang City in Guizhou province.

Udon; a thick Japanese noodle made from wheat flour.

Chinese blackbird (Turdus mandarinus).

烏冬麵乌冬面

烏飯果乌饭果

Alas, an exclamation of grief; also used as a euphemism for to die.

wu1 fu1 oi1 zoi1

嗚呼哀哉呜呼哀哉

Alas; an exclamation expressing deep grief, sorrow, or lamentation.

烏灰鶇乌灰鸫

Japanese thrush (Turdus cardis), a species of bird native to East Asia.