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• 士叻 — se7 lêg8: shellac
• 事宜 — se7 ngi5: matters, arrangements
• 事實 — se7 sig8: fact, truth
• 事態 — se7 tai3: situation, state of affairs, circumstances
• 事蹟 — se7 ziah4: deed, achievement, exploit
• 事主 — se7 zu2: victim (of a crime), injured party, person involved (in a dispute)
• 事 — se7: thing; matter, affair; business
• 酸包 — seng1 bao1: bread
• 酸梅 — seng1 bhuê5: dried sour plum, smoked ume
• 酸菜 — seng1 cai3: pickled cabbage, pickled mustard greens
• 霜櫥 — seng1 du5: refrigerator, fridge, freezer
• 霜枝 — seng1 gi1: ice pop, popsicle
• 霜糕 — seng1 go1: ice cream, ice cream popsicle
• 霜櫃 — seng1 guin7: refrigerator, freezer
• 孫悟空 — seng1 ngo6 kong1: Sun Wukong, Monkey King
• 喪事 — seng1 se7: funeral, funeral arrangements
• 桑垂 — seng1 sui5: mulberry (fruit), mulberry berries
• 酸痛 — seng1 tian3: sore, aching
• 喪 — seng1: mourning; funeral ceremony, corpse; dead body
• 嗓 — seng1: throat, voice
• 孀 — seng1: widow
• 桑 — seng1: mulberry tree
• 痠 — seng1: sore, aching
• 酸 — seng1: sour, tart
• 霜 — seng1: frost, ice (Southern Min)
• 耍笑 — seng2 cio3: to joke; to kid around
• 耍法 — seng2 huag4: way of playing; playing method
• 算盤子 — seng3 buan5 zi2: abacus bead, abacus (dialectal)
• 算盤珠 — seng3 buan5 zu1: abacus bead, person easily manipulated by others (figurative)
• 算盤 — seng3 buan5: abacus, plan; scheme (figurative)
• 算法 — seng3 huag4: algorithm, (mathematical) operation
• 蒜泥 — seng3 ni5: mashed garlic, minced garlic
• 算數 — seng3 siou3: to count; to matter (of one's word), to do arithmetic
• 算術 — seng3 sug8: arithmetic
• 蒜頭 — seng3 tao5: head of garlic, garlic bulb
• 算 — seng3: to count
• 蒜 — seng3: garlic
• 司馬浦 — si1 bhê2 pou2: Simapu (a town in Chaonan District, Shantou, Guangdong)
• 司鐸 — si1 dag8: Catholic priest
• 絲綢 — si1 diu5: silk (cloth or fabric)
• 施工 — si1 gang1: to carry out construction, to do construction work
• 司機 — si1 gi1: driver, chauffeur
• 施行 — si1 gian5: to implement, to carry out, to enforce
• 詩歌 — si1 go1: poetry, poem, hymn
• 施孤 — si1 gou1: to perform Ghost Festival rites to relieve the souls of the deceased
• 西瓜 — si1 guê1: watermelon
• 施害 — si1 hai7: to harm, to do harm to
• 絲毫 — si1 hao5: slightest (amount or degree), the least bit
• 司法 — si1 huag4: judiciary, administration of justice
• 詩意 — si1 i3: poetic sentiment, poetic quality
• 施壓 — si1 iab4: to pressure, to apply pressure, to put pressure on
• 司空見慣 — si1 kong1 giang3 guang3: commonplace, all too common, nothing out of the ordinary
• 司令部 — si1 lêng6 bou6: headquarters, command centre
• 司令 — si1 lêng6: commander, commanding officer
• 絲棉被 — si1 min5 puê6: cotton-wadded quilt
• 噝尿 — si1 rio7: to hold a baby while it urinates
• 施洗 — si1 soi2: to baptize
• 屍體 — si1 toi2: corpse, dead body, cadaver
• C位 — si1 ui7: center position, most prominent position, carry (gaming role)
• 尸位素餐 — si1 ui7 su3 cang1: to hold a position without doing the work, to be a do-nothing official
• 司長 — si1 ziang2: bureau chief, department head, Hong Kong government secretary
• 司 — si1: department; bureau; office, to take charge of; to control (classical/literary)
• 尸 — si1: corpse, dead body
• 屍 — si1: corpse, carcass
• 施 — si1: to apply, to bestow, to carry out
• 絲 — si1: silk, thread; string
• 詩 — si1: poem, poetry, verse
• 死板 — si2 bang2: rigid; inflexible, dull; lifeless
• 死亡 — si2 bhuang5: to die, death
• 死爸囝 — si2 bê6 gian2: bastard (vulgar term of abuse)
• 死爸 — si2 bê6: very; extremely (vulgar intensifier)
• 死黨 — si2 dang2: best friend, diehard buddy, ride-or-die friend
• 死結 — si2 gag4: tight knot; fast knot, impasse; intractable problem
• 死記 — si2 gi3: to memorize by rote, to cram without understanding
• 始皇 — si2 huang5: Qin Shi Huang (first emperor of China)
• 死火山 — si2 huê2 suan1: extinct volcano
• 死刑 — si2 hêng5: death penalty, capital punishment
• 死人 — si2 nang5: dead person, corpse
• 死屍 — si2 si1: corpse, dead body
• 始終 — si2 zong1: throughout, from beginning to end, consistently
• 死罪 — si2 zuê6: capital crime; capital offense
• 始 — si2: to begin, to start, beginning
• 弛 — si2: to loosen, to slacken; to relax
• 死 — si2: to die
• 璽 — si2: imperial seal; royal seal
• 矢 — si2: arrow
• 豕 — si2: pig; boar
• 四方 — si3 bang1: square; cube; cubic
• 勢必 — si3 big4: surely, certainly, inevitably
• 四邊形 — si3 biêng1 hêng5: quadrilateral
• 四邊 — si3 biêng1: all four sides, all around
• 四處 — si3 cu3: everywhere, in all directions
• 四川 — si3 cuêng1: Sichuan (province in China)
• 四點 — si3 diam2: four o'clock
• 四直 — si3 dig8: neat, orderly
• 世代 — si3 do7: generation, era
• 世界盃 — si3 gai3 buê1: World Cup
• 世界觀 — si3 gai3 guang1: worldview, world outlook
• 世界 — si3 gai3: world
• 世間 — si3 gang1: the world, the human world
• 四月 — si3 ghuêh8: April, fourth month
• 世紀 — si3 gi2: century
• 四更 — si3 gên1: fourth night watch (roughly 1am-3am)
• 四海 — si3 hai2: the world, everywhere
• 四方 — si3 huang1: the four directions (north, south, east, west), everywhere; far and wide
• 勢力 — si3 lag8: power, influence, force
• 四面 — si3 ming7: four directions, all sides, all around
• 四維 — si3 rui5: the four social bonds (propriety, justice, integrity, honour), the four directions (literary)
• 世事 — si3 se7: worldly affairs, the ways of the world
• 世襲 — si3 sib8: to inherit (a title/position) hereditarily, to pass down through generations
• 四散呾 — si3 suan3 dan3: to talk nonsense, to babble
• 四散來 — si3 suan3 lai5: to act recklessly, to mess around, to act indiscreetly
• 四散 — si3 suan3: carelessly, casually, at random
• 勢頭 — si3 tao5: momentum, trend, situation
• 世衛組織 — si3 uê6 zu1 zig4: World Health Organization, WHO
• 四十八 — si3 zab8 boih4: forty-eight, 48
• 四十七 — si3 zab8 cig4: forty-seven; 47
• 四十九 — si3 zab8 gao2: forty-nine, 49
• 四十一 — si3 zab8 ig4: forty-one; 41
• 四十六 — si3 zab8 lag8: forty-six, 46
• 四十五 — si3 zab8 ngou6: forty-five, 45
• 四十二 — si3 zab8 ri6: forty-two, 42
• 四十三 — si3 zab8 san1: forty-three, 43
• 四十四 — si3 zab8 si3: forty-four, 44
• 四十 — si3 zab8: forty, 40
• 四肢 — si3 zi1: four limbs, extremities
• 四正 — si3 zian3: neat and proper, tidy
• 四眾人 — si3 zing3 nang5: the general public, the masses
• 世上 — si3 zion7: in the whole world; on earth
• 四周 — si3 ziu1: surroundings, all around
• 世 — si3: generation, world, era
• 勢 — si3: power, situation, tendency
• 四 — si3: four, 4
• C — si5: the Latin letter C (as used in Chinese)
• 時不時 — si5 bug4 si5: from time to time, often; frequently
• 時長 — si5 ciang5: duration, length of time
• 時代 — si5 do7: era; age; epoch, period of one's life
• 時間 — si5 gang1: time, period of time, free time
• 時光 — si5 guang1: time (passing of time), days; time period
• 時候 — si5 hao7: time; moment, point in time
• 時分 — si5 hung1: time; moment (literary)
• 時期 — si5 ki5: period; era; phase
• 時空 — si5 kong1: time and space, spacetime (physics)
• 時刻 — si5 kêg4: moment; instant, constantly (adverbial sense)
• 時髦 — si5 mao5: fashionable, trendy, popular
• 時勢 — si5 si3: current situation; the trend of the times
• 辭世 — si5 si3: to pass away, to die
• 時時 — si5 si5: often; constantly; always
• 時尚 — si5 siang6: fashion; fad, fashionable
• 時辰 — si5 sing5: double-hour (one of the 12 traditional two-hour periods of the day), time; moment
• 時常 — si5 sion5: often; frequently
• 時速 — si5 sog4: speed per hour; km/h
• 時裝 — si5 zuang1: fashionable clothing, contemporary dress
• 時陣 — si5 zung7: time, moment, when
• 辭職信 — si5 zêg4 sing3: letter of resignation, resignation letter
• 辭職 — si5 zêh4: to resign
• 時鐘墜 — si5 zêng1 tui7: pendulum of a clock
• 時鐘 — si5 zêng1: clock
• 匙 — si5: spoon
• 塒 — si5: roost (esp. one made by piercing a wall), chicken roost
• 時 — si5: time, hour, season; era
• 辭 — si5: to resign, to decline, to take leave
• 是呾 — si6 dan3: but
• 是否 — si6 hou2: whether or not, if
• 是非 — si6 hui1: right and wrong, dispute; quarrel
• 視野 — si6 ia2: field of view, field of vision, one's horizons
• 是乜 — si6 mih4: what
• 視頻 — si6 ping5: video, video call
• 是是 — si6 si6: quickly; without delay
• 視聽 — si6 tian1: seeing and hearing, audiovisual
• 視為 — si6 ui5: to view as, to consider to be, to deem
• 是 — si6: to be, is, are
• 氏 — si6: clan; lineage; surname
• 視 — si6: to watch; to look; to view
• 示範 — si7 huam6: to demonstrate, to set an example, to model
• 誓約 — si7 ioh4: oath; vow; pledge
• 豉油 — si7 iu5: soy sauce
• 誓言 — si7 ngang5: oath; pledge; vow
• 視線 — si7 suan3: line of sight, field of view, attention
• 逝者 — si7 zia2: the deceased, the departed, the dead
• 嗜 — si7: to be addicted to; to indulge in
• 噬 — si7: to bite, to gnaw
• 澨 — si7: riverbank, embankment, shore
• 示 — si7: to show, to indicate, to reveal
• 誓 — si7: to swear; to vow, oath; pledge
• 豉 — si7: fermented bean
• 逝 — si7: to pass away, to die, to elapse (of time)
• 斜角 — sia1 gag4: oblique angle, bevel angle
• 寫字 — sia2 ri7: to write characters, to practice calligraphy
• 寫信 — sia2 sing3: to write a letter
• 寫 — sia2: to write
• 瀉肚 — sia3 dou2: to have diarrhea
• 瀉衰 — sia3 suê1: to embarrass, to disgrace
• 赦罪 — sia3 zuê6: to absolve, to pardon a sin
• 卸 — sia3: to unload, to take off, to remove
• 捨 — sia3: to give up, to abandon, to give alms
• 瀉 — sia3: to pour out, to flow rapidly, to have diarrhea
• 猞 — sia3: (bound form) used only in 猞猁, "lynx"
• 舍 — sia3: house, residence, dwelling
• 赦 — sia3: to pardon, to forgive