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• 紅毛字 — ang5 mo5 ri7: the Latin alphabet, Western writing
• 紅毛毯 — ang5 mo5 tang2: blanket
• 紅毛話 — ang5 mo5 uê7: foreign language, English language
• 紅毛 — ang5 mo5: red-haired person, Westerner, Caucasian (derogatory)
• 紅顏 — ang5 nguang5: beautiful woman, rosy complexion, youth
• 紅肉米 — ang5 nêg8 bhi2: red meat
• 紅肉蜅 — ang5 nêg8 bou5: red meat
• 紅肉 — ang5 nêg8: red meat
• 紅柿囝 — ang5 sai6 gian2: tomato
• 紅柿 — ang5 sai6: persimmon
• 紅先生 — ang5 sing1 sên1: ladybird; ladybug
• 紅線 — ang5 suan3: red string; red line, red thread of fate (matchmaking), bottom line (limit not to be crossed)
• 紅色 — ang5 sêg4: red, the color red
• 紅頭鶴 — ang5 tao5 hoh8: red-crowned crane, Japanese crane
• 紅頭船 — ang5 tao5 zung5: Teochew junk (traditional sailing ship)
• 紅桃粿 — ang5 to5 guê2: red peach kueh (Teochew festive rice cake)
• 紅十字車 — ang5 zab8 ri7 cia1: ambulance
• 紅十字會 — ang5 zab8 ri7 huê6: the Red Cross
• 紅酒 — ang5 ziu2: red wine
• 紅棗 — ang5 zo2: red jujube, red date
• 紅腫 — ang5 zêng2: red and swollen, inflamed
• 紅 — ang5: red
• 絚 — ang5: tight, short of money; hard up (colloquial)
• 漚肥 — ao1 bui5: to make compost
• 歐陽 — ao1 iang5: Ouyang (a Chinese compound surname)
• 歐洲 — ao1 ziu1: Europe
• 凹 — ao1: concave, hollow, sunken
• 歐 — ao1: Europe (short for 歐羅巴), euro (short for 歐元)
• 毆 — ao1: to beat; to hit; to strike; to brawl
• 甌 — ao1: small cup, small bowl
• 謳 — ao1: to sing, to chant
• 鏖 — ao1: to fight fiercely, fierce battle
• 鷗 — ao1: seagull
• 嘔血 — ao2 huêh4: to vomit blood; to spit blood
• 嘔奶 — ao2 ni6: to spit up milk (of a baby)
• 嘔吐 — ao2 tou3: to vomit
• 嘔噦 — ao2 uêh4: to vomit; to retch
• 嘔 — ao2: to vomit
• 媼 — ao2: old woman, matron
• 漚屎 — ao3 sai2: bad; useless
• 喉嚨 — ao5 lêng5: throat, larynx and pharynx
• 喉 — ao5: throat, larynx
• 後嬡 — ao6 ai5: stepmother
• 後擺 — ao6 bai2: in the future, from now on
• 後爸 — ao6 be6: stepfather
• 後尾 — ao6 bhuê2: last part; end, the back; rear
• 後壁 — ao6 biah4: the back; the rear
• 後爿 — ao6 boin5: the back; the rear; behind
• 後斗支 — ao6 dao2 zin1: back of the head
• 後斗 — ao6 dao2: back of the head, hindbrain
• 後代 — ao6 do7: descendants; offspring, later generations
• 後個月 — ao6 gai5 ghuêh8: next month
• 後港 — ao6 gang2: Hougang (place in Singapore)
• 後果 — ao6 guê2: consequence; outcome, aftermath
• 後悔 — ao6 huê3: to regret
• 後裔 — ao6 i6: descendant, offspring
• 後來 — ao6 lai5: afterwards; later on
• 後視鏡 — ao6 si6 gian3: rear-view mirror
• 後臺 — ao6 tai5: backstage, behind-the-scenes backer
• 後者 — ao6 zia2: the latter
• 後 — ao6: behind; rear; back, after; later
• 巴比倫 — ba1 bi2 lung5: Babylon
• 巴基斯坦 — ba1 gi1 se1 tang2: Pakistan
• 巴黎 — ba1 li5: Paris
• 巴剎 — ba1 sag4: market, bazaar, wet market
• 巴西 — ba1 sai1: Brazil
• 巴士 — ba1 se6: bus
• 吧城 — ba1 sian5: Batavia (old name for Jakarta)
• 巴仙 — ba1 siang1: percent, percentage
• 吧 — ba1: bar (drinking establishment)
• 巴 — ba1: suffix for objects below/behind (e.g. tail), suffix for clumped/sticky objects (e.g. mud)
• 疤 — ba1: scar, mark
• 葩 — ba1: classifier for lamps, classifier for strung/clustered things (bunch, cluster, string)
• 把關 — ba2 guang1: to guard a pass, to check/inspect for quality
• 飽和 — ba2 hua5: to saturate, to be saturated
• 飽滿 — ba2 muan2: plump, full, well-rounded
• 把握 — ba2 og4: grasp, seize, be sure of
• 把將 — ba2 ziang1: object-fronting marker (formal), disposal preposition
• 靶 — ba2: target
• 飽 — ba2: full, satiated
• 霸道 — ba3 dao6: overbearing; high-handed, bossy; tyrannical
• 霸氣 — ba3 ki3: domineering; overbearing, imposing; commanding, (slang) impressive; awesome
• 霸權 — ba3 kuang5: hegemony, supremacy
• 霸凌 — ba3 lêng5: to bully, to intimidate
• 霸王餐 — ba3 uang5 cang1: dine and dash, eating a meal without paying the bill
• 霸王車 — ba3 uang5 cia1: riding without paying the fare; fare evasion, illegal/unlicensed taxi (regional)
• 霸王龍 — ba3 uang5 lêng5: Tyrannosaurus rex
• 霸王 — ba3 uang5: overlord; hegemon, tyrant; despot
• 壩 — ba3: dam, embankment, dike
• 豹 — ba3: leopard, panther
• 霸 — ba3: to dominate, to occupy by force; to monopolize
• 爸爸 — ba5 ba5: dad, papa
• 罷工 — ba6 gang1: to go on strike, to strike
• 罷課 — ba6 kuê3: to boycott class, to go on a student or teacher strike
• 罷免 — ba6 miang2: to dismiss from office, to recall an official
• 罷 — ba6: to stop; to cease, to finish; to be complete
• 吧 — ba7: sentence-final particle (suggestion, request)
• 北爿 — bag4 boin5: the north; north side
• 北蔥 — bag4 cang1: onion
• 剝赤旮肋 — bag4 ciah4 ga1 lêg4: bare-chested, naked to the waist
• 剝赤跤 — bag4 ciah4 ka1: barefoot
• 北大 — bag4 dai6: Peking University (abbr.)
• 剝奪 — bag4 doh8: to deprive, to strip (of rights), to revoke
• 幅度 — bag4 dou7: range, extent, scope
• 別個 — bag4 gai5: something else, someone else, another
• 北京鴨 — bag4 gian1 ah4: Peking duck, Pekin duck
• 北京 — bag4 gian1: Beijing
• 北極熊 — bag4 gêg8 him5: polar bear
• 北極 — bag4 gêg8: the North Pole, Arctic
• 北約 — bag4 ioh4: NATO
• 北區 — bag4 ku1: northern district
• 腹內 — bag4 lai6: offal, internal organs (esp. pork)
• 北美洲 — bag4 mui2 ziu1: North America
• 北門 — bag4 mung5: north gate (of a city wall)
• 剝皮 — bag4 puê5: to peel, to skin
• 北碧 — bag4 pêg4: Kanchanaburi (Thailand)
• 捌字 — bag4 ri7: to know how to read, to be literate
• 輻射 — bag4 sia7: radiation
• 剝削 — bag4 siah4: to exploit
• 剝 — bag4: to peel, to strip, to take off (clothing, rings, etc.)
• 北 — bag4: north, northern
• 幅 — bag4: classifier for cloth and pictures
• 捌 — bag4: to know; to recognize, already (experiential marker)
• 腹 — bag4: belly; abdomen
• 輻 — bag4: spoke (of a wheel)
• 𧧸 — bag4: to know (alternative form of 捌)
• 菝囝 — bag8 gian2: guava
• 別塊 — bag8 go3: somewhere else, elsewhere
• 別人 — bag8 nang5: others, other people
• 別日 — bag8 rig8: another day, some other day
• 縛 — bag8: to tie
• 擺拍 — bai2 pah4: to take a staged photo, to pose for a photo
• 擺 — bai2: to put, to place, to arrange
• 拜一 — bai3 ig4: Monday
• 拜六 — bai3 lag8: Saturday
• 拜老爺 — bai3 lao6 ia5: to worship the gods, to pray to deities/idols
• 拜五 — bai3 ngou6: Friday
• 拜年 — bai3 ni5: to pay a New Year visit, to wish someone a happy new year
• 拜二 — bai3 ri7: Tuesday
• 拜日 — bai3 rig8: Sunday
• 拜師 — bai3 sai1: to become someone's disciple, to formally apprentice oneself
• 拜三 — bai3 san1: Wednesday
• 拜四 — bai3 si3: Thursday
• 拜山 — bai3 suan1: to visit a grave, tomb-sweeping, to pay respects to the dead
• 拜 — bai3: to bow, to worship, to pay respects
• 排比 — bai5 bi2: to arrange matters, to make arrangements, to manage affairs
• 排查 — bai5 cê5: to investigate one by one, to screen; to check systematically
• 排斥 — bai5 cêg4: to reject, to exclude, to ostracize
• 排除萬難 — bai5 de5 bhuang7 nang5: to overcome all difficulties, to surmount every obstacle
• 排除 — bai5 de5: to remove, to eliminate, to get rid of
• 排隊 — bai5 dui7: to line up, to queue up
• 排骨 — bai5 gug4: ribs, spareribs
• 排回 — bai5 huê5: the past; former times, every time
• 排球 — bai5 kiu5: volleyball
• 排列 — bai5 liag8: to arrange; to put in order, to line up; to queue
• 排名 — bai5 mian5: to rank, to have a ranking
• 排字 — bai5 ri7: to typeset, to form words
• 排日 — bai5 rêg8: every day; daily, in the past; formerly
• 排泄 — bai5 siab8: to excrete, to discharge (waste/fluids)
• 牌子 — bai5 ze2: brand; trademark, sign; signboard
• 排擠 — bai5 zin3: to push aside, to elbow out, to exclude
• 排水 — bai5 zui2: to drain water
• 排印 — bai5 êng3: to typeset and print
• 排演 — bai5 êng5: to rehearse (a program)
• 徘 — bai5: to pace back and forth (as in 徘徊), to hesitate
• 排 — bai5: to arrange; to line up, row; rank
• 牌 — bai5: sign; plaque; nameplate, brand; trademark, playing card
• 敗家囝 — bai7 gê1 gian2: spendthrift, prodigal son, squanderer
• 敗壞 — bai7 huai6: to ruin, to corrupt, to spoil
• 敗血症 — bai7 huêh4 zêng3: septicemia, blood poisoning
• 敗 — bai7: to lose, to fail, to be defeated
• 辦法 — bain7 huab4: way, method, solution
• 崩敗 — bang1 bai7: to collapse, to fall apart, to break down
• 斑馬線 — bang1 bhê2 suan3: crosswalk, zebra crossing
• 斑馬 — bang1 bhê2: zebra
• 班次 — bang1 ce3: shift (work period), number of scheduled runs (trains/buses/flights)
• 扳手 — bang1 ciu2: wrench, spanner
• 方刀 — bang1 do1: cleaver, kitchen knife
• 班機 — bang1 gi1: flight (scheduled airplane journey)
• 幫扶 — bang1 hu5: to assist, to help support
• 班級 — bang1 kib4: class; grade (in school)
• 楓溪 — bang1 koi1: Fengxi (town in Chao'an, Chaozhou, Guangdong)
• 班長 — bang1 ziang2: class monitor, squad leader, team leader
• 頒獎 — bang1 ziang3: to award a prize, to present an award/medal/certificate
• 幫助 — bang1 zo6: to help, to assist, to aid
• 班主任 — bang1 zu2 rim6: homeroom teacher, class teacher
• 崩 — bang1: to collapse, to crumble, to burst
• 幫 — bang1: to help, to assist, gang/group
• 斑 — bang1: spotted; mottled, speckled; striped
• 方 — bang1: direction; side, place; region, method; way
• 枋 — bang1: slab; plank (Southern Min), classifier for pieces of objects
• 班 — bang1: class; group, shift (work period), team; squad
• 邦 — bang1: nation; country, state (political division, e.g. in India)
• 頒 — bang1: to confer; to bestow; to grant, to promulgate; to issue
• 綁定 — bang2 dian7: to bind, to link
• 版圖 — bang2 dou5: territory; domain; dominion
• 綁架 — bang2 gê3: to kidnap, to hijack; to take control of
• 榜樣 — bang2 ion7: example, role model, model
• 版權 — bang2 kuang5: copyright
• 版面 — bang2 ming7: page layout; format, type area