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• 裂開 — lih8 kui1: to split, to burst open
• 裂縫 — lih8 pang7: crack, crevice
• 裂 — lih8: to crack; to break open, to split, to rend
• 啉酒 — lim1 ziu2: to drink alcohol
• 啉 — lim1: to drink
• 凜 — lim2: freezing cold, solemn, stern
• 臨床 — lim5 ceng5: clinical
• 檐階石 — lim5 goi1 ziêh8: doorstep, stone step or platform under the eaves
• 林檎 — lim5 kim5: sugar apple; custard apple (Teochew)
• 臨時 — lim5 si5: temporary; provisional; ad hoc; interim
• 臨睡 — lim5 sui6: to be about to go to sleep
• 琳 — lim5: beautiful jade (literary)
• 臨 — lim5: to approach; to be about to, to arrive, to face; to be adjacent to
• 霖 — lim5: long spell of rain, continuous rain
• 輦 — ling2: wheel, handcart
• 鄰居 — ling5 ge1: neighbor
• 鄰近 — ling5 geng6: nearby, neighboring, adjacent
• 鄰里 — ling5 li2: neighborhood, neighbors
• 磷 — ling5: phosphorus
• 鄰 — ling5: neighbor, neighborhood
• 鰱 — ling5: silver carp, fish of genus Hypophthalmichthys
• 麟 — ling5: qilin (short form of 麒麟), big deer (archaic)
• 了解 — liou2 goi2: to understand; to comprehend, to find out; to inquire about
• 鷯哥 — liou5 go1: hill myna, myna
• 寮國 — liou5 gog4: Laos
• 遼寧 — liou5 lêng5: Liaoning (province in northeastern China)
• 僚 — liou5: official, colleague
• 寥 — liou5: empty; scarce, lonesome
• 鷯 — liou5: quail (literary)
• 蟟蛁 — liou6 ziou6: Phaxas attenuatus (edible clam species)
• 溜 — liu1: to slide; to glide; to slip, to sneak off; to escape
• 柳樹 — liu2 ciu7: willow tree
• 柳州 — liu2 ziu1: Liuzhou (city in Guangxi, China)
• 柳 — liu2: willow, willow tree
• 溜冰 — liu3 bian1: to ice-skate, to roller-skate
• 溜 — liu3: to drip; to flow downward, swift current; rapids
• 流便 — liu5 biang6: Reuben (Protestant Bible transliteration)
• 流星 — liu5 cên1: meteor, shooting star
• 流動性 — liu5 dong6 sên3: liquidity, fluidity, mobility
• 流動 — liu5 dong6: to flow, to circulate, to be mobile
• 流感 — liu5 gam2: flu, influenza
• 流行病學 — liu5 gian5 bên7 hag8: epidemiology
• 流行性 — liu5 gian5 sên3: epidemic (attributive), epidemicity
• 流行 — liu5 gian5: popular, fashionable, prevalent
• 留觀 — liu5 guang1: to keep under medical observation
• 留學生 — liu5 hag8 sêng1: international student; student studying abroad
• 留學 — liu5 hag8: to study abroad
• 留下 — liu5 hia6: to leave behind, to stay behind
• 流域 — liu5 hog8: river basin, watershed
• 硫化氫 — liu5 huê3 king1: hydrogen sulfide
• 留意 — liu5 i3: to pay attention to; to watch out for
• 琉璃 — liu5 li5: coloured glass; glaze, translucent glasswork
• 流利 — liu5 li6: fluent, flowing (of language)
• 流量 — liu5 liang5: flow rate, (mobile/internet) data, web traffic
• 榴槤 — liu5 liêng5: durian
• 嘍囉 — liu5 lo5: underling; henchman, minion
• 流露 — liu5 lou7: to reveal unintentionally, to show (feelings)
• 流氓 — liu5 mang5: hooligan, scoundrel, rascal
• 硫黃 — liu5 ng5: sulfur; sulphur
• 𨻧隍 — liu5 ng5: Liuhuang (a town in Fengshun, Meizhou, Guangdong, China)
• 留言 — liu5 ngang5: message; comment (written or voicemail)
• 流派 — liu5 pai3: school of thought, genre, tributary
• 硫酸 — liu5 seng1: sulfuric acid
• 流失 — liu5 sig4: to be washed away (erosion), to be lost, to be drained (of resources, talent)
• 流程 — liu5 tian5: process, procedure, workflow
• 流調 — liu5 tiao5: contact tracing, epidemiological investigation
• 流傳 — liu5 tuang5: to circulate; to spread, to hand down
• 流水賬 — liu5 zui2 dion3: daybook, chronological account (recorded without analysis)
• 流水行雲 — liu5 zui2 gian5 hung5: smooth and natural (of writing or calligraphy), unforced in style
• 流水線 — liu5 zui2 suan3: assembly line
• 流水 — liu5 zui2: flowing water, running water
• 嘍 — liu5: sentence-final particle equivalent to 了
• 旒 — liu5: jade strings hanging from a crown, streamer on a banner
• 榴 — liu5: pomegranate (short for 石榴)
• 硫 — liu5: sulfur
• 烈 — liêg8: intense, fierce, fiery
• 趔 — liêg8: to stagger, to stumble, to reel
• 蓮霧 — liêng5 bhu7: wax apple
• 鰱魚 — liêng5 he5: silver carp, bighead carp
• 聯絡 — liêng5 log8: to contact; to get in touch with, liaison; connection
• 漣 — liêng5: ripple (of water)
• 聯 — liêng5: to connect; to join, to associate; to ally
• 練習 — liêng7 sib8: to practice
• 鍊 — liêng7: to smelt; to refine, to temper; to forge
• 羅里 — lo1 li5: car, lorry
• 囉嗦 — lo1 so1: verbose, long-winded, annoying
• 潦草 — lo2 co2: sloppy; careless (esp. of handwriting), hasty; slovenly
• 裸露 — lo2 lou7: exposed; bare; uncovered, naked
• 裸體 — lo2 ti2: naked; nude, naked body
• 咾 — lo2: to praise (bound form, used only in 呵咾)
• 裸 — lo2: bare; nude; naked
• 躼 — lo3: tall (of a person)
• 羅馬字 — lo5 bhê2 ri7: the Latin alphabet; roman letters, romanization
• 邏輯 — lo5 cib4: logic, reasoning; rationale
• 羅啲 — lo5 di5: bread
• 牢獄 — lo5 ghêg8: prison, jail
• 牢記 — lo5 gi3: to keep firmly in mind, to remember well
• 鑼鼓 — lo5 gou2: gongs and drums, percussion instruments
• 羅經 — lo5 gên1: luopan (Chinese geomantic/feng shui compass)
• 羅漢果 — lo5 hang3 guê2: monk fruit (Siraitia grosvenorii)
• 羅漢 — lo5 hang3: arhat (Buddhist saint)
• 羅湖 — lo5 ou5: Luohu (district of Shenzhen, Guangdong), Lo Wu (area of Hong Kong)
• 螺絲批 — lo5 si1 poi1: screwdriver
• 螺絲 — lo5 si1: screw (fastener)
• 螺旋 — lo5 suang5: helix, spiral, screw
• 囉 — lo5: annoying, noisy, to nag/chatter
• 牢 — lo5: prison; jail, firm; secure
• 籮 — lo5: bamboo basket
• 羅 — lo5: net (for catching birds); sieve; gauze, a surname
• 蘿 — lo5: creeping or trailing plant (bound morpheme, e.g. in 蘿蔔 'radish')
• 螺 — lo5: snail (aquatic)
• 邏 — lo5: to patrol, to watch over; guard
• 醪 — lo5: unstrained wine; alcohol with dregs, alcoholic beverage
• 鑼 — lo5: gong (percussion instrument)
• 騾 — lo5: mule
• 錄取 — log8 cu2: to admit (a candidate), to enroll
• 陸軍 — log8 gung1: army, ground forces
• 洛陽紙貴 — log8 iang5 zua2 gui3: (of a literary work) to be all the rage for a time; immensely popular
• 洛陽 — log8 iang5: Luoyang (city in Henan, China)
• 錄音棚 — log8 im1 bên5: recording studio
• 錄音帶 — log8 im1 dua3: audiotape, cassette tape
• 錄音機 — log8 im1 gi1: tape recorder
• 錄音 — log8 im1: to record (sound), recording
• 錄入 — log8 rib8: to key in, to input
• 陸續 — log8 sog8: one after another, successively, continuously
• 錄製 — log8 zi3: to record (audio)
• 洛水 — log8 zui2: Luo River (tributary of the Yellow River)
• 錄用 — log8 êng7: to employ, to hire, to take on
• 戮 — log8: to kill; to massacre, to slay
• 洛 — log8: Luo (river name), Luoyang, surname Luo
• 漉 — log8: to seep through; to filter
• 甪 — log8: to come loose; to fall off, to drop; to decrease (of prices)
• 祿 — log8: blessing, prosperity, official salary
• 絡 — log8: to enmesh, to wrap around, to entangle
• 貉 — log8: raccoon dog, tanuki
• 酪 — log8: junket; cheese, dairy paste
• 錄 — log8: to record, to write down
• 麓 — log8: foot of a mountain, foothill
• 落阿孥 — loh8 a1 nou5: to abort a fetus, to induce an abortion
• 落班 — loh8 bang1: to get off work, to finish work
• 落霧 — loh8 bhu7: to have fog or mist appear, to become foggy
• 落肥 — loh8 bui5: to apply fertilizer
• 落田 — loh8 cang5: to go work in the paddy fields
• 落車 — loh8 cia1: to get off a vehicle, to alight
• 落堂 — loh8 deng5: to finish class; class dismissed
• 落鼎 — loh8 dian2: to put into the pot for cooking
• 落短 — loh8 do2: to be in the wrong
• 落注 — loh8 du3: to place a bet, to make a bet
• 落月 — loh8 ghuêh8: to be about to give birth, to be in labor
• 落囝 — loh8 gian2: to abort a fetus; to have an abortion
• 落肩 — loh8 goin1: to let one's shoulders droop smoothly
• 落海 — loh8 hai2: to go to sea, to sail out to sea
• 落葉 — loh8 hioh8: fallen leaves
• 落鄉 — loh8 hion1: to go to the countryside
• 落雨 — loh8 hou6: to rain
• 落荒而逃 — loh8 huang1 re5 do5: to flee in defeat, to run away after being defeated
• 落火 — loh8 huê2: to incite by exaggerating, to stir up trouble
• 落去 — loh8 ke3: to go down, on (verb complement, continuing an action)
• 落課 — loh8 kuê3: to finish class, to get out of class
• 落力 — loh8 lag8: to exert oneself; to make an effort
• 落來 — loh8 lai7: to come down, down (directional verb complement)
• 落難 — loh8 lang7: to meet with misfortune, to be in distress
• 落老爺 — loh8 lao6 ia5: to act as if possessed by a spirit, to claim to be bewitched
• 落理 — loh8 li2: to be in the wrong
• 落臉 — loh8 liang2: to lose face, to bring shame on oneself
• 落麵 — loh8 min7: to put noodles into the pot
• 落毛 — loh8 mo5: to shave one's head (take the tonsure), to become a monk or nun
• 落雹 — loh8 pag8: to hail
• 落聘 — loh8 pian3: to give betrothal gifts (bride price), to fail to be hired for a job
• 落入 — loh8 rib8: to fall into; to drop into
• 落霜 — loh8 seng1: to have frost appear, to frost
• 落席 — loh8 siah8: to take one's seat; to be seated
• 落實 — loh8 sig8: to implement; to carry out; to put into effect
• 落神 — loh8 sing5: to act as if possessed by a spirit, to claim to be bewitched
• 落俗 — loh8 sog8: to adapt; to get used to (customs, behavior), to fit in
• 落雪 — loh8 soh4: to snow
• 落蘇 — loh8 sou1: eggplant, aubergine
• 落產 — loh8 suan2: to miscarry
• 落性 — loh8 sên3: to cool down (of anger), to worsen in quality (of cloth)
• 駱駝 — loh8 toh8: camel
• 落塗 — loh8 tou5: to sow seeds, to be born
• 落載 — loh8 zai7: to load cargo (onto a ship)
• 落水 — loh8 zui2: to fall into water, to suffer a mishap after making an error
• 落船 — loh8 zung1: to board a ship, to disembark from a ship
• 落種 — loh8 zêng2: to sow seeds
• 摞 — loh8: to sprinkle
• 落 — loh8: to fall
• 駱 — loh8: a surname, used in 駱駝 (camel)
• 禮盒 — loi2 ab8: gift box
• 禮拜 — loi2 bai3: week, Sunday; day off, religious service; worship
• 禮品 — loi2 bing2: gift, present
• 禮金 — loi2 gim1: betrothal gift money, monetary gift, key money
• 禮貌 — loi2 mao6: politeness, manners, courtesy
• 禮 — loi2: ritual; ceremony, etiquette; courtesy, gift; present
• 詈 — loi3: to curse; to scold; to abuse verbally
• 犁 — loi5: plough, to plough
• 鱧魚 — loi6 he5: snakehead fish
• 鱧 — loi6: snakehead fish
• 笠 — loih8: conical Asian hat
• 攏總 — long2 zong2: all