Cantonese words starting with W

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To look back, either physically looking behind or reflecting on the past.

Chapter title in a traditional Chinese novel.

A bride's first return to her parental home after her wedding.

The extremely humid and warm spring weather phenomenon in southern China.

wui4 naam4 tin1

A damp, humid weather phenomenon in southern China during spring caused by warm southerly airstreams.

wui4 noeng4 gaa1

To return to one's parental home (of a married woman).

To warm up again, especially in reference to the weather.

wui4 sam1 zyun2 ji3

回心轉意回心转意

To change one's mind; to have a change of heart and return to a previous attitude or intention.

To recycle, retrieve, or reclaim material for processing and reuse.

wui4 sau1 tung2

Recycle bin or recycling bin.

To turn around or look back, often in a figurative or nostalgic sense.

Echo; the reflection of sound waves.

To refund money to a customer.

To reply to a letter.

wui4 seon3 dei6 zi2

To report to one's master.

Regression; a defense mechanism where one reverts to an earlier stage of development.

To rise again after a fall; to rebound.

wui4 sing1 ding6 wai2

回聲定位回声定位

To recall, recollect, or think back on past events.

To look back on; to recall or trace back to the past.

To spin, whirl, rotate, or circle round.

To circle, spin, or gyrate around.

wui4 syun4 cyu3

迴旋處回旋处

Roundabout; a circular road junction.

wui4 syun4 kuk1

Rondo; a musical form with a recurring leading theme.

To turn one's head; to look back, or to come to one's senses.

回頭見回头见

See you later; see you soon.

wui4 tau4 haak3

回頭客回头客

Repeat customer.

wui4 tau4 si6 ngon6

回頭是岸回头是岸

An expression used to encourage someone who has done wrong to repent and reform; literally, "turn back and there is the shore."

To have a sweet aftertaste.

To reverse a desperate situation; to save a hopeless state of affairs.

wui4 tin1 fat6 seot6

回天乏術回天乏术

Unable to save the situation; past hope of recovery.

wui4 tin1 mou4 lik6

回天無力回天无力

Unable to turn around a hopeless situation.

Reply slip; a small slip of paper used to return a response.

To regress or decline; especially of skills deteriorating with age or lack of practice.

To fall back down in price after a period of rising.

To reply or answer.

To return or go back.

To stabilize again; to recover stability, usually after a downward trend.

The return of a deceased person's soul to their home on a specific day, in traditional folk beliefs.

Huihu, an ancient ethnic group who were the ancestors of the Uyghurs and Yugurs.

To return food to the wok to be cooked again, or metaphorically, to redo or restart something.

回鍋油回锅油

Reused cooking oil.

回鍋肉回锅肉

Twice-cooked pork.

The Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims), or a Hui person.

wui4 wui4 cing1

Mohammedan blue; a cobalt blue pigment imported from Persia used as an underglaze on Ming dynasty porcelain.

A receipt or written acknowledgement confirming that an item or document has been received.

To return bottles to a store to claim back the deposit.

Hui ethnic group; a predominantly Muslim Chinese ethnic minority.

Hui person; a member of the Hui ethnic group.