Cantonese words starting with Z

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zi6 dung6 min5 jik6

自動免疫自动免疫

Active immunity.

zi6 dung6 sau6 fo3 gei1

自動售貨機自动售货机

Vending machine

zi6 dung6 tai4 fun2 gei1

自動提款機自动提款机

Automated teller machine (ATM).

zi6 dung6 zi6 faat3

自動自發自动自发

To act on one's own initiative; to be self-motivated and take spontaneous action.

zi6 dung6 zyun2 zoeng3

自動轉賬自动转账

Autopay; automatic bank transfer or direct debit.

Data field in computer databases and spreadsheets.

An illegal lottery game formerly popular in Hong Kong, based on guessing one of thirty-six names or objects.

To introspect, or in mathematics, to be reflexive.

To act spontaneously or voluntarily without being prompted by others.

zi6 faat3 deoi3 cing3 po3 kyut3

自發對稱破缺自发对称破缺

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in physics.

zi6 faat3 din6 wai2

自發電位自发电位

Electroencephalogram (EEG)

Heritage; inheritance of good virtues and legacy from ancestors.

To finance something at one's own expense, using one's own money rather than grants or subsidies.

To commit self-immolation; to burn oneself to death.

To compare oneself to someone or something else.

A character, symbol, or glyph in computing.

String; a sequence of characters in computing.

A character set, such as ASCII or Unicode.

Conceited; egotistic; thinking too highly of oneself.

zi6 fu6 jing4 kwai1

自負盈虧自负盈亏

To be solely responsible for one's own profits and losses without relying on external financial support.

To regret; to feel remorse for one's own actions.

Servo; a servo motor or servomechanism.

Server; a computer on a network that responds to client requests, usually storing useful data.

To proclaim oneself, or to confine oneself.

To provide for oneself; one's personal lifestyle or standard of living.

zi6 fung6 gim6 joek3

自奉儉約自奉俭约

To live frugally and be thrifty in one's personal expenses.

zi6 fung6 sam6 gim6

自奉甚儉自奉甚俭

To live very frugally; to allow oneself few comforts or pleasures.

One's own; homemade or produced by oneself.

Someone from one's own family, group, or inner circle, with whom one is on familiar terms.

zi6 gaa3 zou1 jam6

自駕租賃自驾租赁

Self-drive hire of a vehicle; renting a car to drive yourself.

Pheasant, specifically the common or ring-necked pheasant.

zi6 gam1 do6 lok6

自甘墮落自甘堕落

To give up on oneself; to willingly abandon oneself to vice or degradation.

A component or root of a Chinese character.

A table of components used in Chinese character input methods, such as Wubi or Cangjie.

zi6 gan1 tung1 jung6 maa5

字根通用碼字根通用码

Common coding for components of Chinese characters.

To blame or rebuke oneself.

To save oneself; to help oneself out of a difficult situation.

To wait for an opportunity to do something.

To wait for an opportunity.

Oneself; myself; yourself; him- or herself. Used to refer back to a person or entity for emphasis.

zi6 gei2 dung6 sau2

自己動手自己动手

To do something yourself without relying on others.

One's own business, or working for oneself as one's own boss.

One of us; members of the same family, group, or community.

One of us; someone belonging to the same group or sharing the same identity.

zi6 gei2 lo2 lei4 seoi1

自己攞嚟衰

To bring trouble upon oneself; to have only oneself to blame.

zi6 gei2 san1 jau5 si2

自己身有屎

To have something bad to hide; to be guilty of a wrongdoing that one wants to keep secret.

zi6 gei2 sing4 daam1 fung1 him2

自己承擔風險自己承担风险

At one's own risk; to bear the risk oneself.

zi6 gei2 zap1 saang1

自己執生自己执生

To use one's own initiative; to look out for oneself; to play it by ear depending on the situation.

zi6 gei2 zeoi3 zi1 zi6 gei2 si6

自己最知自己事

One knows oneself best, or understands one's own situation better than anyone else.

To do it yourself; DIY.