Cantonese words starting with Z

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to prick with a needle; official communique

circuit; to extend (everywhere); encircle; here, there and everywhere

to smash; to fail; to bungle; to break; to mash; to fall through

zaap3 gaa1 lei6 aa3

匝加利亞匝加利亚

(Catholicism) Zechariah

notes taking down while reading

to pound the earth to make a building foundation

zaap3 / hap6 / zuk1

hap6 ; about to

(formal) a full month

(dialect) to savor; (fig.) to ponder upon

to crush to death

to destroy; to smash

zaap3 wo1 maai6 tit3

砸鍋賣鐵砸锅卖铁

to be willing to sacrifice everything one has (idiom)

Xi, name of a mountain in China

to practice; habit; to be accustomed to; often; flapping wings

to attack; classifier for suits (esp. of funeral robes); to imitate; to plagiarize

(noun) gate or door gate

(noun) Classifier for book series

mixed; various; additional; composite; trivial

zaap6 bang1 lang1

雜崩能杂崩能

odds and ends; bits and pieces [colloquial]

non-canonical text; apocryphal

assortment of preserved fruits

雜拌兒杂拌儿

erhua variant of 雜拌|杂拌[za2 ban4]

a plainclothes police officer; a criminal police; drudge work; a gofer

zaap6 caai1 fong4

雜差房杂差房

a detective's office [colloquial]

mixed firewood (inferior quality to pine firewood)

communal dining where one takes one's food from dishes served to everyone at the table (contrasted with 分餐[fen1 can1])

zaap6 cat1 zaap6 baat3

雜七雜八杂七杂八

an assortment; lots of different (skills)

to put together various bits; hash (computing)

mixed vegetables

mixed vegetables

(forestry) to log; to skid; to yard

zaap6 cuk1 zaa3 daan2

集束炸彈集束炸弹

(of disparate elements) to mix in with one another; to coexist

zaap6 daai6 daai6

習大大习大大

Papa Xi, nickname for Xi Jinping 習近平|习近平[Xi2 Jin4 ping2]

zaap6 daai6 sing4

to epitomize;to be an agglomeration of; to be a comprehensive expression of

small craftsman (contemptuous); jumbled mass; tumult

variant of 雜沓|杂沓[za2 ta4]

to learn; acquisition

zaap6 dak1 sing3

習得性习得性

zaap6 dak1 sing3 mou4 zo6 gam2

習得性無助感习得性无助感

(psychology) learned helplessness

convenience store; variety store