Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- shòu
- Shòu
English
- old age, long life
- surname Shou
- long life
- longevity
- lifespan
- old age
- age
- life
- birthday
- funerary
- life; age
- birthday
粵語
- 生命嘅長短
- 生日
As a component in · 61
Variants
Words containing 壽
- 大壽daai6 sau6
(polite) birthday making the beginning of new decade of life for an older person, especially over 50 years old (e.g. 60th or 70th birthday)
- 壽命sau6 ming6
life span
- 冥壽ming5 sau6
birthday of a deceased person
- 長壽coeng4 sau6
see 長壽區|长寿区[Chang2 shou4 Qu1]
- 人壽jan4 sau6
human lifespan
- 壽司sau6 si1
sushi
- 壽險sau6 him2
life insurance (abbr. for 人壽保險|人寿保险[ren2 shou4 bao3 xian3])
- 做壽zou6 sau6
to celebrate a birthday (of an elderly person)
- 壽頭sau6 tau4
(noun) a blockhead; a dullard; a nitwit; a moron
- 壽包sau6 baau1
noun; Chinese birthday bun
- 壽星sau6 sing1
Canopus (brightest star in the constellation Carina 船底座[Chuan2 di3 zuo4]); Longevity Star
- 壽板sau6 baan2
coffin
- 拜壽baai3 sau6
congratulate an elderly person on his birthday
- 壽仔sau6 zai2
(noun) a fool; a clumsy person; an idiot
- 折壽zit3 sau6
to have one's life shortened (by excesses etc)
- 壽衣sau6 ji1
burial clothes
- 祝壽zuk1 sau6
to offer birthday congratulations (to an elderly person)
- 壽星公sau6 sing1 gung1
God of Longevity
- 壽辰sau6 san4
birthday (of an old person)
- 壽眉sau6 mei2
Shoumei tea
- 年壽nin4 sau6
length of life
- 壽數sau6 sou3
predestined length of life
- 壽帶sau6 daai2
(bird species of China) Amur paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone incei)
- 壽木sau6 muk6
coffin