Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- tí
English
- weep, whimper
- (bound form) to cry; to weep loudly
- howl, twitter
- (bound form) (of a bird or animal) to crow; to hoot; to screech
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Variants
Words containing 啼
- 啼哭tai4 huk1
to cry
- 雞啼gai1 tai4
rooster's crow; cock-a-doodle-doo
- 啼聲tai4 seng1
ululation
- 悲啼bei1 tai4
to wail with grief
- 啼囀tai4 zyun2
to call sweetly (of birds)
- 啼笑皆非tai4 siu3 gaai1 fei1
lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom)
- 哭哭啼啼huk1 huk1 tai4 tai4
to weep endlessly
- 哭哭啼啼huk1 huk1 tai4 tai4
to weep endlessly
- 半夜雞啼bun3 je6 gai1 tai4
an expression used to describe one's shamelessness
- 杜鵑啼血dou6 gyun1 tai4 hyut3
lit. the cuckoo, after its tears are exhausted, continues by weeping blood (idiom)
- 發過豬啼faat3 gwo3 zyu1 tai4
to get very rich; to make
- 初試啼聲co1 si3 tai4 seng1
to show one's talent or ability for the first time (usually well received); literally: to give (a baby's) first cry
- 柳啼花怨lau5 tai4 faa1 jyun3
desolate
- 尖聲啼哭zim1 seng1 tai4 huk1
squeal
- 啼饑號寒tai4 gei1 hou6 hon4
(idiom) to cry from hunger and cold; to suffer extreme poverty