解 (gaai2 gaai3 haai6 | jie3 jie4 xie4) : untie; relieve; explain; escort; understand

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解

gaai2 gaai3 haai6

jie3 jie4 xie4

[粵] gaai2 | [國] jie3
[1] [v] untie; separate; cut apart
[2] [v] relieve; dispel; solve
[3] [v] explain; interpret; elucidate

[粵] gaai3 | [國] jie4
[v] send under guard; escort

[粵] haai6 | [國] xie4
[1] [國] [v] understand; see the point
[2] [n] acrobatic skills on horseback
[3] [n] used as place or family name

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Radical: (#148)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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點解 dim2 gaai2 dian3 jie3 = why 粵

瞭解 liu5 gaai2 liao3 jie3 = to understand

了解 liu5 gaai2 liao3 jie3 = to understand

解釋 gaai2 sik1 jie3 shi4 = explain

解決 gaai2 kyut3 jie3 jue2 = to solve; to kill (informal)

解答 gaai2 daap3 jie3 da2 = answer; explain

不解 bat1 gaai2 bu4 jie3 = to not understand; indissoluble

辯解 bin6 gaai2 bian4 jie3 = explain away

溶解 jung4 gaai2 rong2 jie3 = to dissolve; solution

注解 zyu3 gaai2 = comment
See all 132 compounds (CantoDict reports 148 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

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你點解唔打電話畀佢，叫佢改第二日呢？粵
Why don't you phone her and tell her to change it to another day?

點解會噉嘅？粵
Why does it have to be like this?
[Lit. why would thus? [Very common phrase on TV dramas and anime!]]

唔知點解呢排成日都頭痛呀。粵
I don't know why I've been getting so many headaches lately.

我真係唔明白佢點解噉樣做呀。粵
I really don't understand why he acts/behaves like this.
[http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,131924,131924#msg-131924]

點解一加一等於「王」？粵
why does one plus one equal '王'?
[This is a well known riddle, the character 王 being composed of two 一 characters at the top and bottom with a + in the middle!]

點解中國會有咁多方言嘅？粵
Why are there so many "dialects" in China?

點解我今日冇見到你呀粵
Why didn't I see you today?
[Lit. why I today not-have see-arrive you [particle]? [maybe on the telephone]]

點解會噉樣做合作呀？粵 ?!
Why would you co-operate like this?

你啲頭髮平時咁撈攪，點解今晚梳頭粵 ?!
Your hair's normally so messy, why've you combed it this evening?

點解佢哋會畀人拉呀？粵
Why would they be arrested?
[Lit. why they would by-person arrest [particle]]

點解要背叛我？粵
Why do you need to betray me?
[Lit. why need betray me]

點解佢冇女朋友？生得唔靚仔囉! 粵
Why doesn't he have a girlfriend? Because he's not handsome, of course!

雖然只係上台分享下自己嘅經歷，但唔知點解好自然會覺得怯場。粵
Although merely sharing my experiences on stage, I do not know why I would naturally get stage fright.

我同你冇仇噃，點解次次省波餅我食呢？粵
I didn't do anything to piss you off. Why are you throwing/kicking/[whatever action is appropriate] the ball at my body every time?
[Alternative translation: There's no grudge between us, why are you hitting me with the balls that you return?]

逼到佢使出渾身解數粵
Forced him to pit all his skills

佢淨係鍾意著紅色裙,冇得解嘅。粵
She only loves to wear red dresses, which can't be explained why.

可唔可以解釋一下點解妳會無端端被人拉呢？粵
Can you explain why you were arrested for no reason?
[Lit. Can-cannot explain a-little-bit why you would-be for-no-reason by people arrest [particle]?]

唔知點解佢要搵你算賬。粵
I don't know why he has a bone to pick with you.
[[literal] Don't know why he has to with you settle accounts. ]

吓,點解你要噉樣做? 粵
Tut-tut, what on earth did you do that for?
[吓 is an exclamation used here to express disapproval. ]

萬大事都有得解決粵
No matter how formidable this problem seems, it can be solved.

點解你洗嚫碗都打爛嘢㗎？
Why is it that every time you wash dishes you break something?
[[粵] V-嚫 ... 都... Pattern the means every time someone does something, such and such will happen.]

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