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太陽
  taai3 joeng4   jyutping
  tai4 yang2   pinyin
[1] sun [2] []: 日頭 ; 熱頭

noun

Level: 2   Google Frequency: 6,120,000

This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
太陽 / 太阳

This word has been viewed 4132 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by radagasty on 14th Jul 2004 02:25 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008 19:03
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Characters in this word:

 taai3  -  highest; great-grand; excessively
 joeng4  -  sun, solar

21 compounds containing this word:

太陽系 - Solar System
太陽油 - sun cream, sun block, sun lotion
太陽能 - solar energy; solar power
太陽鏡 - sunglasses
曬太陽 - bask in the sun
太陽菊 - gerbera; transvaal daisy
太陽光 - sunlight
太陽蛋 - sunny-side up egg
太陽馬戲團 - Cirque du Soleil
太陽微系統公司 - Sun Microsystems
太陽風 - solar wind
太陽黑子 - sunspot
芝加哥太陽時報 - Chicago Sun Times
太陽報 - Sun newspaper
太陽劇團 - Cirque du Soleil
太陽穴 - temple (of the head)
太陽公司 - Sun corporation
Common Formations:
太陽能電池 - solar cells
太陽活動 - solar variation
太陽眼鏡 - sunglasses
太陽能電池板 - solar panel

Showing all 3 examples containing 太陽
detail 橙色的蠟筆太陽
She uses an orange crayon to draw the sun.
[來 here means "in order to" or "to". Marked as unsure: Can an editor please fix the jyutping?]
detail 曬太陽黑猛猛
He sunbathed so much he got a great tan.
[Lit. he shine-sun shine-arrive pitch black. 佢曬到黑猛猛 is okay too.]
detail 太陽冉冉上升
The sun rose slowly.
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