Cantonese words starting with W

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To boast wildly or talk nonsense.

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胡吹亂捧胡吹乱捧

To flatter wildly; to praise or admire indiscriminately without any regard for the truth.

To pester, harass, or make trouble without reason.

Arc length; the length of a curve segment.

To paper a wall; to paste wallpaper onto a wall.

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弧長參數弧长参数

Parametrization by arc length of a space curve.

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Hu Quan (1102-1180), a Song Dynasty official and poet.

Broad bean; fava bean.

Nancy Wu, a Hong Kong actress.

Butterfly knife or balisong; a pocketknife with two handles counter-rotating around the tang.

Iris; fringed iris; also used to refer to pansies.

Farfalle; a small butterfly- or bow-tie-shaped Italian pasta.

蝴蝶結蝴蝶结

Bow; bowknot; a type of knot tied with two or more loops that resembles a butterfly and is easy to untie.

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蝴蝶效應蝴蝶效应

The butterfly effect; a chain reaction triggered by a seemingly minor event.

Papillon; a toy dog breed characterized by its butterfly-like ears.

Dulcimer; alternative name for yangqin.

Palmier; a butterfly-shaped puff pastry biscuit, often sprinkled with white sugar.

Radian; the unit of plane angle measurement.

To spend money recklessly or wastefully.

Hoover, a surname or name.

Bandit; armed robber.

Khufu, the ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.

Flying fox or fruit bat; a large bat of the genus Pteropus.

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To bully others by relying on the power or influence of someone authoritative.

Hu Jia, a Chinese dissident and human rights activist born in 1973.

To mess around, make trouble, or have an illicit affair.

To disrupt, make trouble, or pester without reason.

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胡攪蠻纏胡搅蛮缠

To pester endlessly or make trouble without any reason.

胡錦濤胡锦涛

Hu Jintao (1942-), Chinese politician who served as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of the PRC.

The Vanda Miss Joaquim, a hybrid orchid and the national flower of Singapore.

胡瓜魚胡瓜鱼

Smelt; a family of small fish (Osmeridae).

Huguan, a county in Shanxi, China.

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壺關縣壶关县

Huguan County, in Changzhi City, Shanxi Province.

Arc light or electric arc.

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弧光燈弧光灯

Arc lamp; a type of electric lamp that produces light by an electric arc.

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The natural beauty of lakes and mountains; scenic landscape of water and hills.

Huguang, a historical province of China encompassing modern-day Hubei and Hunan provinces.

The surname Hook or Hooke.

胡杏兒胡杏儿

Myolie Wu Hang-yee, a Hong Kong actress and singer.

Hukou, a county in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China.

To eke out a living; to barely get by.

To scrape a living or make a bare living; to feed oneself.

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湖口鄉湖口乡

Hukou township in Hsinchu County, northwest Taiwan.

湖口縣湖口县

Hukou, a county in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi