Cantonese words starting with W

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To fall ill or suffer from a disease.

Affected area; the part of the body that is injured, wounded, or diseased.

waan6 dak1 waan6 sat1

To worry constantly about personal gains and losses, being overly anxious about success and failure.

waan6 dang1 pin2

幻燈片幻灯片

A slide used for optical projectors or presentation software.

Hallucination or illusion; a false sensory perception or impression.

Eunuch; a castrated man serving in the imperial palace in ancient China.

An illusion, phantom, or unreal image.

To vanish, fade away, or be shattered, especially of hopes, illusions, or dreams.

Adversity, trials and tribulations, or a difficult situation filled with hardships.

waan6 naan6 gin3 zan1 cing4

患難見真情患难见真情

True friendship is shown in times of adversity; genuine relationships survive hardships.

waan6 naan6 zi1 gaau1

患難之交患难之交

Friends who have gone through hardships together, or a friendship that has stood the test of adversity.

Magic or conjuring; the art of creating illusions.

To fantasize, imagine, or dream; to have thoughts and ideas that are detached from reality.

waan6 soeng2 kuk1

Fantasia; a free-form musical composition.

To contract or suffer from an illness.

Auditory hallucination; hearing voices or sounds that do not exist.

Patient; a person suffering from an illness or disease.

To have messed up, gone wrong, or made a mess of something.

A horizontal stroke in Chinese characters, written from left to right.

waang4 aa1 coeng4

橫丫腸橫丫肠

Cecum or appendix.

Yokohama; the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the most populous city in Japan.

waang4 cat1 syu6 baat3

橫七豎八横七竖八

In complete disorder; messy; at sixes and sevens.

waang4 cit3 min6

橫切面横切面

Cross section; a diagram showing what the inside of an object looks like when cut through at a certain angle.

Windfall; unexpected monetary gain such as lottery winnings or found money.

waang4 coi4 zau6 sau2

橫財就手横财就手

May easy money and unexpected wealth come your way.

waang4 cung1 zik6 zong6

橫衝直撞横冲直撞

To dash around recklessly, bumping into everything and everyone.

Anyway, anyhow, or in any case.

Anyway, in any case, or either way; used to introduce a supporting reason for a subsequent statement.

A horizontal bar, such as a rung, crosspiece, rail, ledge, or transom.

waang4 dou1 dyut6 oi3

橫刀奪愛横刀夺爱

To steal someone else's partner or lover; to snatch away someone's beloved.

waang4 fung1 waang4 jyu5

橫風橫雨横风橫雨

Extremely windy and rainy; howling wind and driving rain.

A side street, alleyway, or narrow street branching off a main road.

waang4 gaai1 zaak3 hong6

橫街窄巷横街窄巷

Narrow streets and alleys, typically those with few pedestrians.

waang4 gaak3 mok2

橫膈膜横膈膜

Diaphragm; the muscular partition separating the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity.

waang4 gaak3 zi2

橫格子横格子

An opium divan or opium den.

To lie across, span, or run through.

Trousers; pants.

To cross; to walk across a road, river, or other path to the other side.

waang4 hang4 mou4 gei6

橫行無忌横行无忌

To run wild and act lawlessly without any fear or scruple.

An alleyway running horizontally or to the side of a main street.

To cover with a quilt laid crosswise.

Hengqin, an island in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, China.

To stretch over or across a span of time or horizontal distance.

Hengli, a town in Guangdong, China.

Rude, unreasonable, and barbaric; refusing to listen to reason.

A side door or side gate.

A banner, typically long and horizontal, made of fabric, canvas, or plastic and used for display or protest.

The horizontal scroll or tablet hung above a pair of vertical poetic couplets.

To use underhand, illegal, or violent means to achieve a goal, such as hiring thugs to assault someone.

waang4 sei2 dim3 sei2

橫死掂死横死掂死

No option is good; doomed either way, so it doesn't really matter which one is chosen.