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• 參拜 — cam1 bai3: to pay a formal visit to, to pay one's respects
• 參叉 — cam1 cê1: cross; X (mark)
• 參與 — cam1 e2: to take part in, to participate in, to join in
• 參加 — cam1 gia1: to participate, to take part, to attend
• 參觀 — cam1 guang1: to visit (a place), to look around; to tour
• 參考書 — cam1 kao2 ze1: reference book
• 參考 — cam1 kao2: to consult; to refer to, to reference
• 參謀 — cam1 mou5: staff officer, advisor
• 參賽 — cam1 sai3: to take part in a competition
• 參詳 — cam1 siang5: to discuss; to talk over, to consult
• 參選 — cam1 suêng2: to stand for election, to enter a contest
• 參 — cam1: to participate; to join; to take part
• 慘無人道 — cam2 bho5 nang5 dao6: brutal and inhuman, cruel; merciless
• 慘 — cam2: miserable; pitiful; wretched, tragic; severe
• 懺 — cam3: to repent, to confess out of repentance
• 慚愧 — cam5 kui6: ashamed, mortified
• 慚 — cam5: ashamed, embarrassed
• 攙 — cam5: to mix, to blend, to adulterate
• 讒 — cam5: to slander, to defame, to vilify
• 饞 — cam5: gluttonous, greedy for food, craving
• 蒼白 — cang1 bêh8: pale, pallid; wan
• 倉促 — cang1 cog4: hurried, hasty, sudden; in a rush
• 餐巾 — cang1 geng1: napkin, serviette
• 餐具 — cang1 gu6: tableware, cutlery, dishes
• 餐飲 — cang1 im2: catering, food and beverage (industry)
• 倉庫 — cang1 kou3: warehouse, storehouse
• 蒼茫 — cang1 mang5: vast and hazy, boundless; indistinct
• 餐廳 — cang1 tian1: restaurant, dining hall, canteen
• 蔥珠 — cang1 zu1: chopped green onion
• 倉 — cang1: granary, warehouse
• 滄 — cang1: dark blue-green (of water), cold; cool (literary)
• 蒼 — cang1: blue-green, grey; ashen
• 蔥 — cang1: green onion, scallion, spring onion
• 餐 — cang1: meal, cuisine; food
• 創意 — cang3 i3: creativity, original idea
• 創立 — cang3 lib8: to establish, to found
• 創業 — cang3 ngiab8: to start a business, to found an enterprise
• 創辦 — cang3 poin7: to found, to set up
• 創新 — cang3 sing1: to innovate, innovation
• 創傷 — cang3 sion1: trauma, wound, injury
• 燦頭 — cang3 tao5: naughty, mischievous
• 創作 — cang3 zag4: to create, to write (a creative work)
• 創造 — cang3 zao6: to create
• 創 — cang3: to do, to make, to perform
• 燦 — cang3: bright, lustrous, vivid
• 璨 — cang3: bright; beaming; radiant
• 羼 — cang3: to mix; to blend
• 殘喘 — cang5 cuang2: dying breath, last gasp
• 田地 — cang5 di7: farmland; cropland, field
• 田園 — cang5 hng5: countryside; rural area, farmland; cropland
• 田蟹 — cang5 hoi6: crab
• 田岸 — cang5 huan7: ridge/footpath between paddy fields, embankment between fields
• 殘廢 — cang5 hui3: disabled person (dated term), cripple
• 殘酷 — cang5 kog4: cruel; ruthless, brutal
• 殘缺 — cang5 kuêh4: damaged; incomplete, defective
• 殘留 — cang5 liu5: to remain; to be left over, residue
• 田螺 — cang5 lo5: river snail, freshwater snail
• 殘忍 — cang5 rim2: cruel; ruthless; merciless; heartless
• 田鱔 — cang5 siang6: Asian swamp eel
• 田莊 — cang5 zeng1: manor; feudal estate, village; hamlet
• 殘障 — cang5 ziang3: physical disability, disabled
• 殘疾 — cang5 zib8: physical disability, handicap
• 田主 — cang5 zu2: landowner
• 殘 — cang5: cruel; brutal, incomplete; damaged, remaining
• 潺 — cang5: murmuring; babbling (sound of flowing water)
• 藏 — cang5: to hide; to conceal, to store
• 鑶 — cang5: clang; ringing sound (as of a bell)
• 羼隊 — cang6 dui7: to cut in line, to jump the queue
• 操場 — cao1 diên5: playground; sports ground
• 操練 — cao1 liêng7: to drill, to practice; to train
• 鈔票 — cao1 pio3: banknote, bill, money
• 抄襲 — cao1 sib8: plagiarize, copy
• 操作 — cao1 zag4: to operate, to manipulate, to carry out
• 吵 — cao1: noisy, rowdy, to quarrel
• 抄 — cao1: to copy; to transcribe, to grab; to snatch (colloquial)
• 操 — cao1: to exercise; to drill, to control; to manage, to speak (a language, with an accent)
• 鈔 — cao1: banknote, paper money
• 草莓 — cao2 bhuê5: strawberry
• 草埔 — cao2 bou1: lawn, grassland, pasture
• 草蓆 — cao2 ciêh8: straw mat
• 草地 — cao2 di7: lawn, grassland, meadow
• 草猴 — cao2 gao5: praying mantis
• 草稿 — cao2 go2: rough draft, sketch, outline
• 草菇 — cao2 gou1: straw mushroom
• 草粿 — cao2 guê2: grass jelly
• 草魚 — cao2 he5: grass carp
• 草藥 — cao2 ioh8: herbal medicine
• 草蜢 — cao2 mên2: grasshopper, locust
• 草眼 — cao2 ngang2: temple (of the head)
• 草鞋踏 — cao2 oi5 dah8: cobra
• 草鞋 — cao2 oi5: straw sandal
• 草皮 — cao2 puê5: sod, turf, sward
• 草索 — cao2 soh4: straw rope
• 草率 — cao2 sug4: careless, perfunctory, sloppy
• 草案 — cao2 uan3: draft (of a plan, law, or document)
• 草紙 — cao2 zua2: coarse paper, toilet paper
• 臭臊 — cao3 co1: stinking (as of rotten fish), having a fishy/rank smell
• 臭豆腐 — cao3 dao7 hu7: stinky tofu
• 臭棋 — cao3 gi5: lousy chess move, bad move (in chess/games)
• 噪音 — cao3 im1: noise, din
• 臭丸 — cao3 in5: mothball, camphor ball
• 臭名昭著 — cao3 mian5 ziou1 du3: notorious
• 臭柿 — cao3 sai6: tomato
• 臭酸 — cao3 seng1: bittersweet; regrettable (of food)
• 臭相 — cao3 sion3: to cheat shamelessly, to trick shamelessly
• 臭液蜚 — cao3 siêh8 bhui7: stinkbug
• 臭膣 — cao3 zi1: cunt (vulgar insult for a woman), bitch
• 澡 — cao3: to bathe; to wash (oneself)
• 肏 — cao3: to fuck (vulgar), expression of anger (vulgar interjection)
• 臊 — cao3: embarrassed; ashamed
• 臭 — cao3: rotten
• 藻 — cao3: algae; seaweed
• 巢 — cao5: nest, den, lair
• 撨 — cao5: to adjust, to move (furniture or heavy objects)
• 曹 — cao5: surname Cao
• 艚 — cao5: boat for transporting tax grain, small boat
• 舒 — ce1: comfortable; leisurely; easy, to stretch out; to relax
• 蛆 — ce1: maggot
• 鼠賊囝 — ce2 cag8 gian2: thief
• 鼠鼠 — ce2 ce2: very small (of one's eyes)
• 鼠鬼相 — ce2 gui2 sion3: stingy; miserly
• 鼠瓜 — ce2 guê1: loofah
• 鼠麴粿 — ce2 kag4 guê2: shuquguo (a type of kuih made with sweet dough)
• 鼠疫 — ce2 mog8: plague
• 鼠標 — ce2 piou1: computer mouse, cursor
• 此時 — ce2 si5: this moment, now, at present
• 此在 — ce2 zai6: now; at present
• 此 — ce2: this, here
• 鼠 — ce2: rat, mouse
• 次生 — ce3 sên1: derived, derivative, secondary
• 次 — ce3: time (occurrence), counter for frequency/occurrences
• 覷 — ce3: to peep, to glance, to look
• 慈母 — ce5 bho2: loving mother, affectionate mother
• 慈悲 — ce5 bui1: compassionate, merciful, kind
• 磁場 — ce5 dion5: magnetic field
• 瓷器 — ce5 ki3: porcelain, china, chinaware
• 慈善 — ce5 siang6: charitable, benevolent, philanthropic
• 磁性 — ce5 sên3: magnetism, (of a voice) deep and attractive quality
• 磁鐵 — ce5 tih4: magnet
• 磁針 — ce5 zam1: magnetic needle
• 徐 — ce5: slowly, calmly
• 慈 — ce5: kind, benevolent, to love (of an elder toward a younger)
• 瓷 — ce5: porcelain; china; chinaware
• 磁 — ce5: magnet; magnetism, porcelain (alt. of 瓷)
• 茨 — ce5: sweet potato, potato, yam
• 雌 — ce5: female (of animals/plants)
• 青尞青尞 — cen1 liao1 cen1 liao1: pale and bluish (reduplicated, intensified form of 青尞)
• 青尞 — cen1 liao1: pale and slightly bluish (in complexion), pallid
• 村民 — ceng1 ming5: villager
• 村莊 — ceng1 zeng1: village, hamlet
• 村 — ceng1: village, hamlet
• 瘡 — ceng1: sore; boil; skin ulcer, wound; cut
• 穿 — ceng1: to wear (clothing), to put on, to pass through; to pierce
• 艙 — ceng1: cabin (of a ship, plane, etc.)
• 刺激 — ceng3 gêg4: to stimulate, to excite, to provoke
• 床布 — ceng5 bou3: tablecloth
• 床單 — ceng5 duan1: bedsheet
• 床裙 — ceng5 kung5: ceremonial table curtain/skirt (used at festivals or ceremonies)
• 床褥 — ceng5 rog8: mattress
• 床頭 — ceng5 tao5: head of the bed, bedhead
• 床位 — ceng5 ui7: berth, bunk, bed (in a hospital/hotel/train)
• 床 — ceng5: bed
• 淒慘 — ci1 cam2: miserable, wretched, tragic
• 痴情 — ci1 cêng5: infatuation, devoted love, mad love
• 凄疑 — ci1 ghi5: dirty, unhygienic
• 痴哥伯 — ci1 go1 bêh4: lecher, dirty old man
• 痴哥鬼 — ci1 go1 gui2: lecher, pervert
• 痴哥 — ci1 go1: lecher, womanizer, pervert
• 妻舅 — ci1 gu6: wife's brother, brother-in-law
• 妻姨 — ci1 i5: wife's younger sister, sister-in-law
• 蚩尤 — ci1 iu5: Chiyou (legendary tribal leader of the Jiuli people in Chinese mythology)
• 淒涼 — ci1 liang5: bleak, desolate, forlorn
• 老婆跋落溪——淒涼 — ci1 liang5: bleak; miserable (xiehouyu: 'wife falls into the creek — pathetic')
• 痴迷 — ci1 mi5: to be obsessed with, to be infatuated with
• 痴呆 — ci1 ngai5: stupid, dull, foolish
• 妻兒 — ci1 ri5: wife and children, wife
• 棲息地 — ci1 sêg4 di7: habitat
• 妻子 — ci1 ze2: wife
• 嗤 — ci1: to laugh at; to jeer; to sneer
• 妻 — ci1: wife
• 棲 — ci1: to perch, to roost, to dwell
• 淒 — ci1: chilly, cold, miserable, sad
• 痴 — ci1: foolish; silly, infatuated; crazy about
• 鰓 — ci1: fish gill
• 恥辱 — ci2 rog8: shame, disgrace, humiliation
• 恥 — ci2: shame, disgrace, humiliation
• 褫 — ci2: to strip off; to deprive of, to snatch away
• 試錯 — ci3 co3: to do by trial and error
• 試點 — ci3 diam2: to pilot, to carry out a trial or experiment (e.g. of a policy/scheme)
• 試工 — ci3 gang1: to do trial work, to work on a trial basis
• 試卷 — ci3 geng2: exam paper, test paper
• 試行 — ci3 gian5: to try out, to pilot, to test
• 試管嬰兒 — ci3 guang2 êng1 ri5: test tube baby, IVF baby
• 試管 — ci3 guang2: test tube
• 刺瓜 — ci3 guê1: cucumber
• 刺毛蟲 — ci3 mo5 tang5: caterpillar
• 試驗 — ci3 ngiam7: experiment, trial, test
• 試圖 — ci3 tu5: to attempt, to try, to intend
• 試用 — ci3 êng7: to try out, to be on probation
• 刺 — ci3: to stab