loeng4 gwaa1涼瓜
Jyutpingloeng4 gwaa1
Yalelèuhng gwā
Definition
Bitter melon; bitter gourd.
colloquialfood
How it's used
涼瓜 is the preferred term in Cantonese for this vegetable, whereas 苦瓜 is more common in Mandarin and formal written contexts. Using 涼瓜 sounds much more natural and local when shopping at a wet market or ordering at a restaurant. It is often associated with the concept of clearing internal heat in traditional Chinese medicine.
Measure word
tiu4條tìuhExamples
We are cooking stir-fried beef with bitter melon tonight.
Do you like eating bitter melon?
Related words
Common phrases
stir-fried beef with bitter melon
bitter melon with pork ribs
Grammar color guide
Noun
Verb
Adjective
Adverb
Pronoun
Classifier
Particle
Connector
Grammar guides
- LocationHow to say where something is using 喺 (hai2), place words like 度, and the common coverbs that work like English prepositions.
- Serial verbsStringing two or more verbs together without any joining word, like go to the shop buy things. Extremely common in Cantonese.
- 將 disposalHow to move the object in front of the verb with 將, to focus on what happens to it. Common in instructions and writing.
