Cantonese words starting with Z
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做收錢做收钱
zou6 sau1 cin2Collect money
做手
zou6 sau2to put one's hand to sth; skillful hands; writer
做手腳做手脚
zou6 sau2 goek3(verb) 1. Secretly mess with (an objective in order to make it malfunction); 2. Make arrangement (on vote etc.)
做手信
zou6 sau2 seon3to make souvenir gift
做壽做寿
zou6 sau6to celebrate a birthday (of an elderly person)
皂石
zou6 sek6soapstone
做聲做声
zou6 seng1to speak
做市商
zou6 si5 soeng1market maker
做事
zou6 si6to work; to have a job
做成
zou6 sing4causing (spoken)
造成
zou6 sing4to bring about; to create; to cause
做盛行
zou6 sing6 hong4what is your line of work?; what is your profession? [colloquial]
做小
zou6 siu2to be sb's concubine
做小抄
zou6 siu2 caau1to prepare a crib sheet; to cheat by copying
做小姐
zou6 siu2 ze2to be an escort in a nightclub; to be a prostitute [written and colloquial]
做騷做骚
zou6 sou1show-off; faking; putting up a publicity stunt
做數做数
zou6 sou3rigging numbers in accounting so as to pass the auditing; to do math; to do accounting; to organise the accounts and transactions
造船
zou6 syun4shipbuilding
造船廠造船厂
zou6 syun4 cong2dockyard
造船業造船业
zou6 syun4 jip6shipbuilding industry
造船所
zou6 syun4 so2shipyard
做廳長做厅长
zou6 teng1 zoeng2(jocular) to sleep on the couch; to sleep in the living room
做妥
zou6 to5to do appropriately
做禱告做祷告
zou6 tou2 gou3to pray
做為做为
zou6 wai4to act as
做運動做运动
zou6 wan6 dung6to exercise (physically)
做活
zou6 wut6to work for a living (esp. of woman needleworker)
做活兒做活儿
zou6 wut6 ji4erhua variant of 做活[zuo4 huo2]
做針線做针线
zou6 zam1 sin3to do needlework
造就
zou6 zau6to bring up; to contribute to
做準備工作做准备工作
zou6 zeon2 bei6 gung1 zok3to make preparations
造紙造纸
zou6 zi2papermaking
造紙廠造纸厂
zou6 zi2 cong2a paper mill; a paper-making factory
造字
zou6 zi6to create Chinese characters
做自己
zou6 zi6 gei2to be oneself
做咗
zou6 zo2became; to have done [colloquial]
做咗人豬仔做咗人猪仔
zou6 zo2 jan4 zyu1 zai2[literal translation] become someone's piggy; 豬仔 also means the one being sold for indentured servitude of hard labour
做張做勢做张做势
zou6 zoeng1 zou6 sai3to put on an act (idiom); to pose; to indulge in histrionics
做張做智做张做智
zou6 zoeng1 zou6 zi3to put on an act (idiom); to pose; to indulge in histrionics
做張做致做张做致
zou6 zoeng1 zou6 zi3see 做張做智|做张做智[zuo4 zhang1 zuo4 zhi4]
造像
zou6 zoeng6statue
做作
zou6 zok3affected
造作
zou6 zok3affected; pretentious
做莊做庄
zou6 zong1as the dealer
做主
zou6 zyu2variant of 作主[zuo4 zhu3]
做絕做绝
zou6 zyut6to go to extremes
囑嘱
zuk1to enjoin; to urge
捉
zuk1to clutch; to capture; to grasp
柷
zuk1percussion instrument, a tapering wooden box struck on the inside with a wooden stick
燭烛
zuk1candle; watt
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