Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- xū
English
- high mound
- ruins
- country or village fair; market
- ruins
- hilly countryside
- (literary) village
- wasteland
- variant of 圩[xu1]
- country fair
粵語
- 市集；街市；人流聚集嘅地方（量詞：個）
- 曾經有人住，後來荒廢、毀壞嘅地方
Variants
Words containing 墟
- 廢墟fai3 heoi1
ruins
- 墟日heoi1 jat6
market day
- 墟場heoi1 coeng4
market place
- 趁墟can3 heoi1
(slang) to go to a flea market; to visit a street market; (phrasal verb) to join the fun
- 墟冚heoi1 ham6
(adjective) crowded, exuberant and busy
- 大埔墟daai6 bou3 heoi1
the name of a place in Hong Kong: Tai Po Market
- 墟市heoi1 si5
street market; fair; marketplace
- 墟里heoi1 lei5
village
- 天光墟tin1 gwong1 heoi1
street markets that open in the early morning in Hong Kong
- 殷墟jan1 heoi1
Yinxu, ruins of Yinshang 殷商 city at Anyang 安陽|安阳 in Henan province, a World Heritage site
- 墟巴嘈閉heoi1 baa1 cou4 bai3
adj.; noisy, very noisy
- 焚化墟fan4 faa3 heoi1
- 太和墟taai3 wo4 heoi1
- 墟咁嘈heoi1 gam3 cou4
- 墟墟冚冚heoi1 heoi1 ham6 ham6
busy, populated, crowded; bustling
- 墟墟冚冚heoi1 heoi1 ham6 ham6
busy, populated, crowded; bustling
- 一節淡三墟jat1 zit3 daam6 saam1 heoi1
means the normal market trades become quieter after a major festival, the effect can last for 3 market sessions (in the old days of farming, the market open on first days and middle of the lunar month, that means about a month to 1.5 months)
- 三個女人一個墟saam1 go3 neoi5 jan2 jat1 go3 heoi1
three women makes a crowd
- 爭成條墟zaang1 seng4 tiu4 heoi1
- 趁墟打市can3 heoi1 daa2 si5
to go to market
- 華屋丘墟waa4 uk1 jau1 heoi1
magnificent building reduced to a mound of rubble (idiom); fig. all one's plans in ruins
- 舊大埔墟站gau6 daai6 bou3 heoi1 zaam6
Old Tai Po Market Station, a railway station in Hong Kong
- 隔成條墟咁遠gaak3 seng4 tiu4 heoi1 gam3 jyun5
- 賓墟咁嘅場面ban1 heoi1 gam2 ge3 coeng4 min2
an extravagant scene; a massive gathering [colloquial]