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kei5 kei5*2
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[粵] kei5 | [國] qi3 [1] [v] stand on tiptoe [2] [v] look forward to; anxiously expect [粵] kei5 - Cantonese only [v] stand | [variant] 徛 [粵] kei5*2 - Cantonese only [n] home (often in compound form 屋企) Default PoS: Additional PoS: Stroke count: 6
Level: 2
Radical: 亻 (#9)
This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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屋企 uk1 kei5*2 = house, home 粵 返屋企 faan1 uk1 kei5*2 = return home; go home 粵 屋企人 uk1 kei5*2 jan4 = family; member of family 粵 企業 kei5 jip6 = business; enterprise 企圖 kei5 tou4 = to attempt; to try; to seek 企鵝 kei5 ngo4*2 = the penguin 小型企業 siu2 jing4 kei5 jip6 = small business 國企 gwok3 kei5 = state-owned enterprise 企位 kei5 wai6*2 = standing room only 企理 kei5 lei5 = neat, has orderliness; dignity, doesn't work carelessly 粵 See all 61 compounds (CantoDict reports 72 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations) |
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Showing all 25 examples containing 企
我係今日返屋企㗎。 粵
I returned home only today. [http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,131851 ]
你唔可以企喺張枱上便 粵
You can't stand on the table. [Lit. you cannot stand at table surface. 唔可以 here carries the sense of "not allowed".]
跌親就企返起身啦! 粵
If you fall over, get back up again! [Lit. fall bad-thing, stand back up body. As the translation suggests, this is actually a conditional sentence, even though it might not seem like it. More explicitly we could say 如果你跌親嘅話,你就企返起身啦!]
有條友企喺張枱上便 粵
There's a guy standing on the table. [Lit. Have [counter] friend stand at table on-top. 條友 is an set expression for "guy".]
亞蓮隔籬周不時都打通宵麻雀,令到佢同屋企人受滋擾。 粵
Ah Lin's neighbours often play mahjong right through the night thereby disturbing her and her family. [http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,137957,137958#msg-137958]
如果阿明真係一個識飛嘅超人就好喇⋯⋯噉佢就唔會喺條街度踩咗啲米田共返嚟屋企,重要印到成條走廊嘅地板都係!抹死人咩⋯⋯ 粵
It'd be nice if Ah Ming were a superhero that knew how to fly … Then he wouldn't have brought home the poop that he stepped on in the street and printed it all over the floorboards in the hallway! Cleaning it up will be the death of me … 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. |