Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- jià
English
- to marry, give a daughter in marriage
- (of a woman) to marry
- (of women) to marry a man; to marry into (and become part of the man's family)
- to marry off a daughter
- to shift (blame etc)
粵語
- （指女人）同男人結婚，進入男人嘅家庭
Words containing 嫁
- 下嫁haa6 gaa3
(of a woman) to marry a man of lower social status
- 出嫁ceot1 gaa3
to get married (of woman)
- 嫁人gaa3 jan4
(of a woman) to get married; to take a husband
- 嫁女gaa3 neoi2
to marry off a daughter
- 嫁妝gaa3 zong1
dowry
- 改嫁goi2 gaa3
to remarry (of a woman)
- 嫁接gaa3 zip3
to graft (a branch or bud onto a rootstock)
- 轉嫁zyun2 gaa3
to remarry (of widow)
- 婚嫁fan1 gaa3
marriage
- 嫁娶gaa3 ceoi2
marriage
- 嫁禍gaa3 wo6
to impute
- 外嫁ngoi6 gaa3
(of a woman) to marry a non-local or foreigner
- 嫁裝gaa3 zong1
variant of 嫁妝|嫁妆[jia4 zhuang5]
- 嫁資gaa3 zi1
dowry
- 許嫁heoi2 gaa3
allowed to marry
- 外嫁女ngoi6 gaa3 neoi2
noun; married daughter
- 翻頭嫁faan1 tau4 gaa3
describes the act of a widow or a divorced woman who decides to get married again
- 妝嫁zong1 gaa3
dowry
- 返頭嫁faan1 tau4 gaa3
(of a woman) to remarry
- 陪嫁妹pui4 gaa3 mui1
maids that accompany the bride to her husband's house
- 再嫁zoi3 gaa3
(of woman) to remarry
- 遠嫁jyun5 gaa3
to marry a man who lives in a distant place
- 陪嫁pui4 gaa3
dowry
- 恨嫁han6 gaa3
(of a woman) to yearn to get married