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• 攏 — long2: all, both
• 農田 — long5 cang5: farmland, cropland
• 濃厚 — long5 gao6: dense; thick, strong; pronounced
• 農耕 — long5 gên1: farming, agriculture
• 農戶 — long5 hou6: peasant household, farming household
• 濃烈 — long5 liêg8: strong (smell, taste, emotion)
• 濃濃 — long5 long5: very thick; very concentrated
• 農曆 — long5 lêh8: Chinese lunar calendar, lunar calendar
• 農業 — long5 ngiab8: agriculture, farming
• 農人 — long5 ring5: farmer, peasant
• 農作物 — long5 zag4 muêh8: crop, agricultural produce
• 濃 — long5: thick; concentrated; strong
• 窿 — long5: hole
• 膿 — long5: pus
• 農 — long5: to farm, farming; agriculture, farmer
• 隆 — long5: prosperous, abundant, grand
• 弄 — long6: to play with, to do, to make
• 挵 — long7: to collide; to bump into, to knock
• 滷鴨 — lou2 ah4: braised duck
• 滷味 — lou2 bhi7: lou mei; meat/offal simmered in master stock
• 滷鵝 — lou2 gho5: braised goose (a Teochew dish)
• 滷肉 — lou2 nêg8: braised meat; stewed meat
• 滷水 — lou2 zui2: master stock; marinade
• 鹵水 — lou2 zui2: brine, bittern
• 滷 — lou2: to stew in soy sauce and spices; to braise/marinate, thick sauce; marinade
• 鸕鶉 — lou5 tung5: quail
• 鸕鶿 — lou5 ze1: cormorant
• 爐 — lou5: stove, furnace, oven
• 鱸 — lou5: bass (fish), perch
• 陋習 — lou6 sib8: bad habit, corrupt custom
• 陋 — lou6: ugly, vulgar, humble
• 鹵 — lou6: saline soil, natural salt, halogen (chemistry)
• 路標 — lou7 biê1: roadsign, signpost
• 路段 — lou7 deng7: stretch of road, section of railway
• 路燈 — lou7 dêng1: streetlight, streetlamp
• 路囝 — lou7 gian2: small pathway, narrow path
• 路墘 — lou7 gin5: roadside, side of the road
• 露骨 — lou7 gug4: blatant; undisguised, explicit; flagrant
• 路徑 — lou7 gên3: path, route, method; way
• 路費 — lou7 hui3: travel expenses, road toll
• 路口 — lou7 kao2: intersection, junction, crossing
• 路況 — lou7 kuang3: road conditions
• 路網 — lou7 mang6: road network
• 路面 — lou7 ming7: road surface, pavement
• 路人 — lou7 ring5: passer-by, stranger
• 路線 — lou7 suan3: route, itinerary, line
• 路程 — lou7 tian5: travel distance, journey
• 露水 — lou7 zui2: dew
• 路 — lou7: road
• 露 — lou7: to expose; to reveal, bare; exposed
• 屢次 — lu2 ce3: repeatedly, time and time again, many times
• 屢見不鮮 — lu2 giang3 bug4 cin1: common occurrence, nothing new, far from rare
• 屢禁不止 — lu2 gim3 bug4 zi2: persists despite repeated bans, rampant despite repeated prohibition
• 屢屢 — lu2 lu2: again and again, repeatedly, time and time again
• 屢 — lu2: repeatedly, frequently
• 擄 — lu2: to capture; to seize, to plunder; to rob
• 縷 — lu2: classifier for wisps, threads, or strands
• 魯 — lu2: stupid; dull, rude; crude
• 婁 — lu5: Lou (a surname)
• 廬 — lu5: hut; simple cottage, lodge
• 盧 — lu5: surname Lu/Lo
• 蘆 — lu5: reed
• 顱 — lu5: skull, cranium
• 賂 — lu6: bribe; bribery
• 賴 — lua7: to rely on; to depend on, to blame; to deny
• 閱歷 — luag4 lêh8: experience, life experience
• 劣跡 — luag4 ziah4: misdeed, evil doing, bad record
• 劣 — luag4: bad; inferior, poor quality
• 閱 — luag4: to read; to peruse, to inspect; to review, to experience; to go through
• 烙 — luah4: to brand, to iron, to pan-fry
• 辣 — luah4: spicy, hot (of taste), pungent
• 戀 — luang3: to love (romantically), to yearn for; to be attached to
• 孿生 — luang5 sên1: twin
• 巒 — luang5: mountain peak; ridge
• 攣 — luang5: to spasm and curl up, to cramp
• 鑾 — luang5: imperial carriage, small bell attached to a carriage
• 亂七八糟 — luang6 cig4 boih4 zao1: in a complete mess, at sixes and sevens, chaotic
• 亂呾 — luang6 dan3: to speak carelessly, to talk nonsense
• 亂象 — luang6 siang6: chaotic state, disorder, social turmoil
• 律師 — lug8 se1: lawyer; attorney
• 律 — lug8: law; rule; regulation, discipline
• 率 — lug8: rate; frequency, ratio
• 聿 — lug8: writing brush (original form of 筆), classical particle: then; thereupon
• 嚛 — luh8: to make playful vocal sound effects, (internet slang) to act emo/dramatic
• 累計 — lui2 goi3: to total, to add up, to amount to
• 磊 — lui2: piled up (of rocks), large; tall
• 蕊 — lui2: classifier for flowers, classifier for eyes
• 雷達 — lui5 dag8: radar
• 雷霆 — lui5 dang5: to thunder
• 雷公 — lui5 gong1: god of thunder, thunder (dialectal)
• 雷響 — lui5 hiang2: to thunder, to rumble with thunder
• 雷雨 — lui5 hou6: thunderstorm
• 雷擊 — lui5 kêg4: to strike (of lightning), to be struck by lightning
• 鐳射 — lui5 sia7: laser
• 鐳 — lui5: radium
• 鐳 — lui5: money, coin; copper cash
• 雷 — lui5: thunder
• 淚 — lui6: tear, teardrop
• 類型 — lui7 hêng5: type, category, kind
• 類似 — lui7 se6: to be similar (to), analogous
• 類 — lui7: kind; category; class, type; sort
• 忍 — lung2: to endure; to bear; to suffer, to forbear
• 嫩 — lung3: tender; delicate, soft (of food)
• 淪亡 — lung5 bhuang5: to be subjugated (of a country), to perish; to decay
• 輪渡 — lung5 dou7: ferry
• 倫敦 — lung5 dung1: London
• 輪值 — lung5 dêg8: to take turns being on duty, to be on rotating duty
• 輪姦 — lung5 gang1: to gang-rape
• 淪陷 — lung5 ham7: to fall into enemy hands; to be occupied
• 輪番 — lung5 huang1: in turn, alternately, one after another
• 輪椅 — lung5 in2: wheelchair
• 倫理學 — lung5 li2 hag8: ethics (field of study)
• 倫理 — lung5 li2: ethics, morality, moral principles
• 輪流 — lung5 liu5: to take turns, to alternate
• 淪落 — lung5 loh8: to be reduced to poverty; to be stranded, to decline; to degenerate, to sink into (a bad situation)
• 輪胎 — lung5 to1: tire
• 輪船 — lung5 zung5: steamship, steamer, ship
• 侖 — lung5: reason; order (archaic, alt. form of 倫)
• 倫 — lung5: human relations; ethics; moral order
• 圇 — lung5: whole; entire (bound form, used only in 囫圇)
• 淪 — lung5: to sink; to decline, to fall into ruin
• 輪 — lung5: wheel
• 論文 — lung6 bhung5: thesis, dissertation, academic paper
• 論理學 — lung6 li2 hag8: logic (as a field of study)
• 論理 — lung6 li2: to reason with someone, to argue one's case
• 論 — lung6: to discuss, to argue, to comment on
• 閱讀 — luêg4 tag8: to read
• 暖 — luêng2: warm, to warm up
• 戀愛 — luêng3 ain3: to be in love, to date; to court, romantic love
• 孌 — luêng5: lovely; beautiful, docile; obedient
• 孿 — luêng5: twins
• 鸞 — luêng5: luan (mythical phoenix-like bird)
• 亂 — luêng6: disorderly; chaotic; messy, confused
• 嚦峇 — lê1 bha5: driver (of a vehicle)
• 綠豆爽 — lêg8 dao7 suang3: sweet split mung bean soup (Teochew dessert)
• 綠豆 — lêg8 dao7: mung bean
• 陸地 — lêg8 di7: dry land, landmass
• 綠茶 — lêg8 dê5: green tea
• 陸豐 — lêg8 hong1: Lufeng (city in Shanwei, Guangdong)
• 綠化帶 — lêg8 huê3 dua3: green belt
• 綠化 — lêg8 huê3: to make green, to afforest, to landscape
• 綠色 — lêg8 sêg4: the color green, green
• 陸上 — lêg8 zion7: ashore, on land
• 勒 — lêg8: to rein in, to restrain, to strap tightly
• 氯 — lêg8: chlorine, chlorine gas
• 綠 — lêg8: green
• 肋 — lêg8: rib
• 陸 — lêg8: land; continent, mainland
• 陸 — lêg8: six (formal/financial numeral used in place of 六)
• 叻 — lêh4: smart; clever; capable; good (at something)
• 瀝青 — lêh8 cên1: asphalt, bitumen, pitch
• 歷來 — lêh8 lai5: always, all along, constantly
• 歷史 — lêh8 se2: history
• 歷程 — lêh8 tian5: course (of events), process; journey
• 曆 — lêh8: calendar
• 櫟 — lêh8: oak tree, chestnut-leaved oak
• 歷 — lêh8: to experience, to go through
• 鬲 — lêh8: ancient three-legged cooking cauldron (li)
• 鈴 — lêng1: bell, chime
• 攆 — lêng2: to push (with the hands)
• 隴 — lêng2: Gansu (old/short name for the province), mound; ridge; grave (variant of 壟)
• 龍馬精神 — lêng5 bhê2 zêng1 sing5: vigorous and energetic, especially remaining so in old age; strong as an ox
• 凌遲 — lêng5 ci5: slow slicing (lingchi), death by a thousand cuts
• 靈車 — lêng5 cia1: hearse
• 靈感 — lêng5 gam2: inspiration
• 隆江 — lêng5 gang1: Longjiang (a town in Huilai, Jieyang, Guangdong, China)
• 零工 — lêng5 gang1: temporary job, odd job, casual laborer
• 龍崗 — lêng5 gang1: Longgang (a district of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China)
• 另外 — lêng5 ghua7: additionally, besides, in addition
• 能夠 — lêng5 gou3: can, to be able to
• 陵園 — lêng5 hng5: cemetery, memorial park
• 能否 — lêng5 hou2: whether or not, is it possible
• 龍虎榜 — lêng5 houn2 bang2: honor roll; ranking list (e.g. of successful examinees, top traders)
• 龍華 — lêng5 hua5: Longhua (a place name in China; e.g. a district of Shenzhen)
• 靈魂 — lêng5 hung5: soul, spirit
• 龍蝦 — lêng5 hê5: lobster, spiny lobster
• 寧夏 — lêng5 hê7: Ningxia
• 菱形 — lêng5 hêng5: rhombus, diamond shape, lozenge
• 靈異 — lêng5 i6: supernatural; paranormal, mysterious; occult
• 羚羊 — lêng5 ion5: antelope
• 能力 — lêng5 lag8: ability, capability, competence
• 能量 — lêng5 liang6: energy, vigour, capability
• 玲瓏 — lêng5 long5: exquisite; delicate and well-made, clever; nimble
• 靈敏 — lêng5 miang2: keen; sharp; sensitive, agile; quick
• 檸檬 — lêng5 mong5: lemon
• 龍門架 — lêng5 mung5 gê3: gantry (steel-bar framework spanning an area)
• 龍眼 — lêng5 ngang2: longan
• 靈驗 — lêng5 ngiam7: efficacious, effective, accurate (of a prediction)
• 能源 — lêng5 nguêng5: energy; energy source; power source
• 龍湖 — lêng5 ou5: Longhu (a place name in China; districts/towns of Shantou, Chao'an/Chaozhou, and elsewhere)
• 龍袍 — lêng5 pao5: imperial robe
• 籠床 — lêng5 seng5: steamer basket (bamboo)
• 凌晨 — lêng5 sing5: early morning, before dawn, small hours
• 聆聽 — lêng5 tian1: to listen (literary), to listen carefully
• 靈活 — lêng5 uah8: agile; nimble, flexible
• 能為 — lêng5 ui5: skill, talent, ability
• 靈位 — lêng5 ui7: spirit tablet
• 靈芝 — lêng5 ze1: lingzhi mushroom (Ganoderma lucidum), reishi
• 零食 — lêng5 ziah8: snack, between-meal nibbles
• 零下 — lêng5 ê6: subzero, below zero