Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- diǎn
English
- law, canon
- canon
- documentation
- law
- classic, scripture
- standard work of scholarship
- literary quotation or allusion
- ceremony
- to be in charge of
- to mortgage or pawn
- (of people and animals) to roll, to roll about, to flop around; especially referring to being restless while lying on a bed
- live-sale, a type of pledge in previous time, is to lease the right of use of a property or field in a certain period as a pledge, the pledgor claim back the property at the end of period by returning the money, if no claiming is done means the property is sold to the pledgee .
粵語
- 人或者動物喺度碌來碌去,不停翻滾;尤其指喺牀上面輾轉反側
- 原指典賣、典押;一種古時抵押融資方式,俗稱「活賣」,指將房屋田產等一段時限內嘅使用權渡讓他人,以換取一筆資金,限期屆滿物主備款續回,不續回表示賣斷。後合拚成「典當」引伸至一切以實物做抵押嘅融資交易。
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Words containing 典
- 古典gu2 din2
classical
- 經典ging1 din2
the classics
- 典型din2 jing4
model
- 瑞典seoi6 din2
Sweden
- 慶典hing3 din2
celebration
- 典禮din2 lai5
ceremony; celebration
- 雅典ngaa5 din2
Athens, capital of Greece
- 詞典ci4 din2
dictionary
- 典範din2 faan6
model
- 字典zi6 din2
Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 詞典|词典[ci2 dian3], which has entries for words of one or more characters)
- 盛典sing6 din2
majestic pomp
- 辭典ci4 din2
variant of 詞典|词典[ci2 dian3]
- 恩典jan1 din2
favor
- 典故din2 gu3
classical story or quote from the literature
- 典籍din2 zik6
ancient books or records
- 典雅din2 ngaa5
refined; elegant
- 典當din2 dong3
to pawn
- 用典jung6 din2
to use literary quotations; to use phrases taken from the classics
- 特典dak6 din2
privilege; special gift; bonus; periphery
- 典質din2 zat1
to mortgage
- 故典gu3 din2
old classics
- 典解din2 gaai2
an alternative written form used specifically to represent the pronunciation for the word 點解 dim2 gaai2 (why) in casual speech; used as a parody or to sound cute
- 佛典fat6 din2
Buddhist scriptures
- 儀典ji4 din2
ceremony