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• 私家 — sai1 kia1: personal savings; secret stash of money, private; secret
• 西區 — sai1 ku1: western district
• 西臚 — sai1 lou5: Xilu (town in Chaoyang district, Shantou, Guangdong)
• 腮腺炎 — sai1 suan3 iam7: mumps, parotitis
• 西醫 — sai1 ui1: Western medicine, doctor of Western medicine
• 西藏 — sai1 zang6: Tibet
• 西照 — sai1 zio3: to have western sun exposure and be hot in summer (of a room)
• 西照日 — sai1 zioh4 rêg8: setting sun, sunset
• 釃酒 — sai1 ziu2: to pour an alcoholic drink
• 西裝 — sai1 zuang1: Western-style suit, formal suit
• 㩄 — sai1: to get scattered and lost, to waste (possibly)
• 犀 — sai1: rhinoceros
• 獅 — sai1: lion
• 腮 — sai1: cheek, jaw
• 西 — sai1: west; western
• 釃 — sai1: to pour alcohol or tea (into a cup), to strain wine
• 駛車 — sai2 cia1: to drive (a vehicle)
• 屎肚 — sai2 dou2: belly, abdomen
• 屎桶 — sai2 gang1: manure bucket, chamber pot
• 屎溝 — sai2 gao1: ditch, drain
• 屎缸 — sai2 geng1: chamber pot, toilet, latrine
• 屎礐 — sai2 hag8: toilet, latrine, outhouse
• 使壞 — sai2 huai6: to play tricks, to be mischievous
• 私奇 — sai2 kia1: personal savings; secret stash of money
• 使命感 — sai2 mêng6 gam2: sense of mission, calling
• 使命 — sai2 mêng6: mission, task, assignment
• 屎蟲 — sai2 tang5: maggot
• 使錢 — sai2 zin5: to spend money
• 使用 — sai2 êng7: to use, to utilize, to employ
• 使 — sai2: to use; to employ, to order; to send (someone), to let; to cause
• 屎 — sai2: excrement, poop, feces
• 駛 — sai2: to drive (a vehicle), to sail, to run quickly
• 賽車 — sai3 cia1: car race, motorbike race, racing vehicle
• 賽場 — sai3 dion5: stadium, racetrack, competition venue
• 賽事 — sai3 se7: match, game, contest
• 使徒 — sai3 tu5: apostle
• 使 — sai3: envoy; messenger
• 塞 — sai3: frontier fortress; strategic pass; border stronghold
• 婿 — sai3: son-in-law, husband
• 曬 — sai3: to sun; dry in sunlight, to shine on (of the sun), to bask in the sun
• 灑 — sai3: to sprinkle, to splash
• 賽 — sai3: to compete; to contend, competition; contest; race
• 柿餅 — sai6 bian2: dried persimmon, persimmon cake
• 柿蒂 — sai6 dih4: persimmon calyx (used in traditional Chinese medicine)
• 柿 — sai6: persimmon
• 三國 — sam1 gog4: Three Kingdoms (Chinese history, 220-280 CE)
• 杉 — sam1: fir, cedar (conifer tree)
• 衫頷領 — san1 am6 nian2: collar (of a shirt)
• 衫頷 — san1 am6: collar (of a shirt)
• 三胞胎 — san1 bao1 to1: triplets
• 衫筒 — san1 dang5: front panel piece of a Chinese jacket
• 三頓 — san1 deng3: three daily meals, breakfast, lunch, and dinner
• 三點 — san1 diam2: three o'clock
• 衫袋 — san1 do7: shirt pocket
• 三角形 — san1 gag4 hêng5: triangle (polygon)
• 三角 — san1 gag4: triangle
• 三江 — san1 gang1: the Three Rivers of Chaoshan (Han, Rong, and Lian rivers)
• 三月 — san1 ghuêh8: March, third month
• 三觀 — san1 guêng1: one's fundamental outlook (worldview, values, and philosophy of life)
• 衫架 — san1 gê3: coat hanger, clothes rack
• 三更半暝 — san1 gên1 buan3 mên5: in the middle of the night, late at night
• 三更 — san1 gên1: midnight, third night watch (11pm-1am)
• 三弦 — san1 hin5: sanxian (three-stringed lute)
• 衫褲 — san1 kou3: clothes, shirt and pants; suit
• 三輦車 — san1 ling2 cia1: pedicab; tricycle; three-wheeler
• 三輪車 — san1 lung5 cia1: pedicab, tricycle, trishaw
• 三令五申 — san1 lêng6 ngou6 sing1: to repeatedly order and warn, to give repeated exhortations
• 衫䘼 — san1 ng2: sleeve (of clothing)
• 三山國王 — san1 suan1 gog4 uang5: Three Mountain Kings (Taoist deities worshipped in Chaoshan)
• 三牲 — san1 sên1: three sacrificial meats (pork, chicken, fish), traditional three-animal offering
• 衫身 — san1 sêng1: front panel piece of a Chinese jacket
• 三十八 — san1 zab8 boih4: thirty-eight, 38
• 三十七 — san1 zab8 cig4: thirty-seven; 37
• 三十九 — san1 zab8 gao2: thirty-nine, 39
• 三十一 — san1 zab8 ig4: thirty-one; 31
• 三十六 — san1 zab8 lag8: thirty-six, 36
• 三十五 — san1 zab8 ngou6: thirty-five, 35
• 三十二 — san1 zab8 ri6: thirty-two, 32
• 三十三 — san1 zab8 san1: thirty-three, 33
• 三十四 — san1 zab8 si3: thirty-four, 34
• 三十 — san1 zab8: thirty, 30
• 三鳥 — san1 ziou2: chicken, duck, and goose; poultry, messengers; envoys (figurative, literary)
• 三 — san1: three, 3
• 衫 — san1: clothes, shirt, clothing
• 舢板 — sang1 bang2: sampan, flat-bottomed wooden boat
• 雙胞胎 — sang1 bao1 to1: twins
• 雙手 — sang1 ciu2: both hands
• 雙打 — sang1 da2: doubles (sports)
• 刪除 — sang1 de5: to delete, to expunge, to remove
• 霜降 — sang1 gang3: Frost's Descent (18th solar term), Shuangjiang
• 雙方 — sang1 huang1: both sides, both parties
• 雙一流 — sang1 ig4 liu5: Double First Class (Chinese university initiative), top-tier university plan
• 雙徛人 — sang1 kia6 nang5: the 彳 radical, double-person radical (Chinese character component)
• 雙人房 — sang1 nang5 bang5: double room
• 雙人床 — sang1 nang5 ceng5: double bed
• 雙人 — sang1 nang5: double, two-person, for two people
• 雙生囝 — sang1 sen1 gian2: twin, twins
• 雙生兒 — sang1 sen1 ri5: twins
• 雙生 — sang1 sên1: twins
• 雙十一 — sang1 zab8 ig4: Singles' Day, Double Eleven (November 11 shopping festival)
• 刪 — sang1: to delete, to cut, to remove
• 珊 — sang1: coral
• 訕 — sang1: to mock, to ridicule
• 雙 — sang1: pair (classifier), two; double
• 鬆 — sang1: loose, relaxed
• 㾪肉 — sang2 nêg8: lean meat
• 㾪 — sang2: thin, lean, slim
• 送餐 — sang3 cang1: to deliver a meal
• 送達 — sang3 dag8: to deliver, to serve (a legal notice)
• 送禮 — sang3 loi2: to give a gift
• 送喪 — sang3 seng1: to attend a funeral procession
• 喪失 — sang3 sig4: to lose, to forfeit
• 送醫 — sang3 ui1: to send to hospital
• 喪 — sang3: to lose; to forfeit, to die; to pass away
• 疝 — sang3: hernia
• 送 — sang3: to give (a gift), to send; to deliver, to see off
• 瘙癢 — sao1 iang6: to itch; to feel itchy, to tickle
• 騷婆 — sao1 pua5: prostitute (female)
• 騷擾 — sao1 riao2: to harass, to annoy; to disturb
• 颼聲 — sao1 sian1: hoarse; husky (voice)
• 搔 — sao1: to scratch
• 騷 — sao1: coquettish; flirty; provocative, to harass; to disturb
• 掃碼 — sao3 bhê2: to scan a QR code
• 掃地 — sao3 do3: to sweep the floor, to be ruined; to hit rock bottom (figurative, e.g. of reputation)
• 掃羅 — sao3 lo5: Saul (biblical figure)
• 掃墓 — sao3 mo6: to sweep a grave, to visit a grave and pay respects to the dead
• 掃射 — sao3 sia7: to strafe; to mow down with gunfire, to sweep (e.g. a searchlight) across
• 掃帚星 — sao3 siu2 cên1: comet, bearer of bad luck (figurative)
• 掃帚 — sao3 siu2: broom
• 嘯 — sao3: to whistle, to howl; to roar
• 掃 — sao3: to sweep, to clean with a broom
• 潲 — sao3: semen (vulgar), as fuck; as hell (vulgar intensifier suffix)
• 斯文 — se1 bhung5: refined, gentle, courteous
• 司馬 — se1 bhê2: surname Sima (e.g. Sima Qian, Sima Yi), Grand Marshal (historical Han-dynasty military office)
• 私情 — se1 cêng5: personal relationship, love affair
• 思潮 — se1 diê5: ideological trend, way of thinking (of an era)
• 私德 — se1 dêg4: personal morality, private virtue
• 私交 — se1 gao1: personal relationship; personal friendship
• 私家車 — se1 gê1 cia1: private car
• 私家 — se1 gê1: private; not open to the public
• 思鄉 — se1 hion1: to be homesick, to miss one's hometown
• 師傅 — se1 hu3: master, skilled worker, sifu
• 思考 — se1 kao2: to think, to ponder, to consider
• 斯里蘭卡 — se1 li2 lang5 ka2: Sri Lanka
• 思量 — se1 liang6: to think over, to consider, to miss; long for
• 私立 — se1 lib8: private (of an institution, e.g. school), privately run
• 思路 — se1 lou7: train of thought, reasoning, way of thinking
• 司命公 — se1 mêng6 gong1: Kitchen God (Teochew folk-religion deity)
• 思念 — se1 niam6: to miss, to think of, to yearn for
• 思維 — se1 rui5: thinking, thought, cognition
• 私人 — se1 rêng5: private; personal
• 斯斯文文 — se1 se1 bhung5 bhung5: very refined, very gentle and courteous
• 私事 — se1 se7: private matter, private business
• 思想 — se1 siang2: thought, idea, ideology
• 私心 — se1 sim1: selfish motive, selfishness, inner thoughts
• 私塾 — se1 sog8: old-style private school (historical)
• 私生子 — se1 sên1 ze2: illegitimate child, bastard child, child born out of wedlock
• 師生 — se1 sêng1: teacher and student(s)
• 私通 — se1 tong1: to have secret communication with, to commit adultery
• 私有 — se1 u6: to be privately owned, private
• 師資 — se1 ze1: teaching staff, faculty
• 私自 — se1 ze6: privately, secretly, without permission
• 私下 — se1 ê6: in private; secretly, privately
• 嘶 — se1: hoarse; husky (voice), neighing (of a horse)
• 師 — se1: teacher; master, expert
• 思 — se1: thought; feeling; mood
• 斯 — se1: this; these (classical), then; thus (classical), phonetic transliteration character
• 私 — se1: private; personal, selfish
• 史 — se2: history
• 肆意 — se3 i3: wantonly, recklessly, wilfully
• 肆虐 — se3 ngiag8: to wreak havoc, to devastate, to ravage
• 肆 — se3: four (formal/financial numeral, used to prevent forgery)
• 肆 — se3: shop; store (literary, in compounds), impudent; undisciplined (literary)
• 賜 — se3: to bestow; to grant (from a superior)
• 辭藻 — se5 cao3: flowery language, rhetoric
• 祠堂 — se5 deng5: ancestral hall, ancestral shrine, lineage temple
• 詞典 — se5 diang2: dictionary
• 詞語 — se5 ghe2: word, term, expression
• 詞彙 — se5 huê6: vocabulary, lexicon
• 詞類 — se5 lui7: part of speech
• 祠 — se5: ancestral temple, shrine
• 詞 — se5: word, term
• 士巴拿 — se6 ba1 na2: spanner, wrench
• 伺機 — se6 gi1: to watch for a chance, to wait for an opportunity
• 似乎 — se6 hu1: seemingly, as if, it seems that
• 事理食 — se6 li2 ziah8: to prepare food, to cook
• 事理 — se6 li2: to fix, to repair, to prepare
• 事業 — se6 ngiab8: career, undertaking, enterprise
• 似 — se6: to resemble, to be similar to, to be like
• 侍 — se6: to wait upon, to serve
• 嗣 — se6: to inherit; to succeed, to continue
• 士 — se6: scholar, soldier, occupational suffix (-ist, -er)
• 嶼 — se6: island, islet
• 汜 — se6: stagnant water, branch stream that rejoins the main river
• 事務 — se7 bhu6: affairs, routine work, business
• 事件 — se7 gian6: event, incident, occurrence
• 事故 — se7 gu3: accident, mishap
• 事關 — se7 guang1: to concern, to have importance for, to relate to
• 事項 — se7 hang6: item, matter, affair
• 事發 — se7 huag4: (of an incident) to occur, to come to light, to happen