Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- jiǎn
- Jiǎn
English
- scissors
- surname Jian
- (bound form) scissors or similar tool
- to cut with scissors; to trim; to clip
- cut, divide, separate
- to cut as with scissors
- (bound form) to wipe out; to exterminate
- to edit (video, audio etc)
粵語
- 用鉸剪或者類似嘅有鉸切割工具，去切除一啲嘢
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Variants
Words containing 剪
- 剪輯zin2 cap1
to edit (raw footage: film, video, audio etc)
- 剪刀zin2 dou1
scissors
- 修剪sau1 zin2
to prune
- 剪報zin2 bou3
newspaper cutting
- 剪片zin2 pin2
to edit a film or video
- 剪草zin2 cou2
lawn pruning or mowing
- 較剪gaau3 zin2
scissors
- 剪接zin2 zip3
to edit (raw footage: film, video, audio etc)
- 裁剪coi4 zin2
to cut out
- 洋剪joeng4 zin2
tailoring scissors; tailoring shears
- 刪剪saan1 zin2
to cut (from a movie etc)
- 剪裁zin2 coi4
to tailor (clothes)
- 鉸剪gaau3 zin2
scissors
- 剪子zin2 zi2
clippers
- 反剪faan2 zin2
with hands behind one's back
- 剪影zin2 jing2
paper-cut silhouette
- 剪布zin2 bou3
to cut a cloth
- 剪除zin2 ceoi4
to eradicate
- 剪切zin2 cit3
to cut (with scissors or similar tool); to shear
- 牙剪ngaa4 zin2
shear teeth scissors; hair thinning scissors
- 疏剪so1 zin2
to prune
- 剪枝zin2 zi1
to prune (branches etc)
- 剪鉗zin2 kim4
cutting plier
- 剪綵zin2 coi2
to cut the ribbon (at an opening)