揦 (laa2 laa5 | la2) : grab; irritate; dirty

Remove Adverts and gain lots of extra features
What is this page showing me?

揦

laa2 laa5

la2

(jyutping) laa2
[1] [v] grab; grasp; clutch
[2] [v] irritate (one's organ or skin)
[3] [v] salt; pickle; marinate | [synonym] 腌

(jyutping) laa5
[adj] dirty; not clean

Default PoS:

Additional PoS:

Stroke count: 12

Level: 3

Radical: 扌 (#64)

This character is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. 粵

揦

This word has been viewed 7614 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 7th Jan 2011 14:41

Output this character as a high resolution image

揦屎上身 laa2 si2 soeng5 san1 = bring trouble to oneself 粵

跌落地揦返拃沙 dit3 lok6 dei6 laa2 faan1 zaa6 saa1 die1 luo4 di4 la2 fan3 zhan3 sha1 = to salvage one's pride; to save face 粵

揦埋 laa2 maai4 = normally; apt to; collect 粵

揦鮓 laa5 zaa2 = dirty 粵

揦鮓招 laa5 zaa2 ziu1 = dirty trick 粵

揦西 laa2 sai1 = slip-shod 粵

揦手 laa2 sau2 = to be difficult to handle 粵

揦脷 laa2 lei6 = expensive; spicy 粵

攻鼻揦脷 gung1 bei6 laa2 lei6 = irritates the nose; smells or tastes intensely irritating 粵

揦茜 laa2 sai1 = rash, sloppy (lit., "grasping at reeds") 粵

揦苴 laa5 zaa2 = dirty 粵

查揦 caa4 laa2 = to investigate; to interrogate 粵

揦手唔成勢 laa2 sau2 m4 sing4 sai3 la2 shou3 wu2 cheng2 shi4 = be in a dilemma; be unable to cope with a problem; to be all over the place 粵

揦起塊面 laa2 hei2 faai3 min6 la2 qi3 kuai4 mian4 = to pull a long face 粵

Showing all 4 examples containing 揦

唔好摸啲白鴿啦，佢哋非常之揦鮓粵
Don't touch the pigeons, they're very dirty.
[Lit. don't touch [plural counter] pigeons [particle], they extremely dirty Other synonyms for 揦鮓: 污糟 and 污糟邋遢 ]

佢嘅躉好揦大粵
Her ass is damn huge!
[Lit. Her ass very [mild expletive] big http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,135805,135810#msg-135810]

佢竟然出噉嘅揦鮓招！粵
I never expected him to use such dirty tricks!

佢做嘢好快手，之不過有時揦西啲粵
He is very fast in what he does, but occasionally he can be sloppy.

Legend
國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

Forum Code to link to this word:
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/2077/]揦[/url][/big]
HTML Code to link to this word:
<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/2077/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">揦</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 揦
Unicode code for this character: U+63e6 (off-site link)

Search CantoDict (safe search is on)

Please note, CantoDict currently supports searching for Simplified Chinese, but results will be returned in Traditional Chinese.

Hide Written and Spoken Hide Written 國 Hide Spoken粵

This page shows, from top to bottom:

a large version of the character in a traditional script font which you may need to install

: the Cantonese Jyutping romanisation (pronunciation) Also, CantoDict uses a unique "asterisk (*)" convention, to show readings such as jyu^4*2. For more information please see CantoDict Tone Conventions.

: the Mandarin pronunciation of the word in pinyin.
a detailed description of all the meanings
the number of strokes needed to write the character correctly
our arbitrarily assigned difficulty level
a smaller version of the character in a computerised, printed font, along with the PRC simplified version if applicable
a list of characters which look similar and are therefore possible sources of confusion (where relevant)
a list of compound words that use this character, ordered by difficulty level.
(we would really appreciate new volunteers to add some more compound words to the database so please post to the CantoDict forum if you would like to spend an occasional 10 mins or so helping)


Characters \| Words \| Sentences \| Chinese Translation \| Chinese Tests \| Forums \| Search Customise CantoDict \| My Vocab Lists \| Useful Reports and Stats \| CantoDict Forum