Cantonese words starting with Z

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Dimple; a small indentation in the cheek that appears when speaking or smiling.

A small pot or flask used for holding and serving alcoholic drinks.

Cocktail party or reception.

To walk back; to return on foot.

Lees or sediment left over from alcoholic drinks.

Rosacea; a chronic dermatological condition affecting the face and nose.

Leeway, flexibility, or room for changes and compromise when handling a matter.

Flexibility; room for maneuver or compromise.

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Noriko Sakai, a Japanese actress and singer.

A slip of the tongue

To become drunk or intoxicated from alcohol.

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酒醉三分醒

Used to assert that a drunk person is still conscious of and responsible for their actions.

Wine bottle; any bottle used for holding alcoholic drinks.

To enter or step into.

A lackey or henchman, or historically, a runner or foot soldier.

Drinking money; money spent on wine or alcoholic drinks.

走資派走资派

Capitalist roader; a political label used during the Cultural Revolution for cadres accused of taking the capitalist road.

A move in chess or other board games.

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To drink until one is half-drunk.

A banquet feast, traditionally served and counted by tables of about twelve people.

Alcohol or ethanol; the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors.

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酒精燈酒精灯

A spirit lamp or alcohol burner, typically used in laboratory settings.

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酒精飲料酒精饮料

Alcoholic beverage; any drink containing alcohol.

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To use shortcuts, trickery, or petty cleverness to gain small advantages or avoid work.

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Alcoholic; containing alcohol.

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Alcoholism; alcohol poisoning.

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走著瞧走着瞧

To wait and see how things develop or who is right.

Wine or liquor.

Winery; a place where wine is made, or a shop selling wine.

Distiller's grains; the residue left after brewing wine or distilling liquor.

Rhinophyma, a skin condition causing a red, bumpy, and enlarged nose.

Dates preserved in Chinese liquor.

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酒足飯飽酒足饭饱

To have eaten and drunk to one's heart's content.

A small cup used for drinking wine or liquor.

To be vexed or worried.

To curse, wish ill, or invoke bad luck upon someone.

To beat someone up

Daytime; day as opposed to night.

Brickwork of a well.

To wrinkle, pucker, or furrow; to contract the muscles and skin of the face to form temporary folds.

Wrinkled, creased, or puckered.

皺巴巴皱巴巴

Wrinkled, crumpled, or unironed.

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晝短夜長昼短夜长

The days are short and the nights are long, typically in winter.

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晝伏夜出昼伏夜出

Nocturnal; hiding by day and coming out at night.

To prove effective or produce the expected results.

To furrow, wrinkle, or pucker up one's face, brow, or nose.

Day and night; a full twenty-four hour period.

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晝夜平分點昼夜平分点

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晝夜節律昼夜节律

Circadian rhythm.

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皺葉歐芹皱叶欧芹

Curled-leaf parsley (Petroselinum crispum).