Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- xún
English
- patrol, go on circuit, cruise
- to patrol
- to make one's rounds
- classifier for rounds of drinks
- to patrol
粵語
- 喺一個地方周圍行下，睇下嗰度嘅情況係咪如常
Variants
Words containing 巡
- 巡禮ceon4 lai5
to make a pilgrimage (to visit a holy site)
- 巡警ceon4 ging2
police patrol
- 巡更ceon4 gaang1
to patrol at night, marking the time by sounding clappers or gongs
- 巡邏ceon4 lo4
to patrol
- 巡視ceon4 si6
to inspect (a site); (of a dignitary) to visit; to go on an inspection tour
- 巡迴ceon4 wui4
to go around; to roam; to tour
- 巡遊ceon4 jau4
to cruise
- 巡查ceon4 caa4
to patrol
- 出巡ceot1 ceon4
to go on an inspection tour
- 巡行ceon4 hang4
to patrol
- 巡場ceon4 coeng2
to watch over a gambling den; to make an inspection tour around a site [written and colloquial]
- 巡洋艦ceon4 joeng4 laam6
cruiser (warship)
- 勻巡wan4 ceon4
even, to spread evenly
- 巡房ceon4 fong2
to run a ward round
- 巡捕ceon4 bou6
to patrol
- 巡撫ceon4 fu2
inspector-general of province in Ming and Qing times
- 巡演ceon4 jin2
(theater etc) to tour; to be on tour; to give itinerant performances (abbr. for 巡迴演出|巡回演出[xun2 hui2 yan3 chu1])
- 巡航ceon4 hong4
(military) to patrol (airspace or waters)
- 海巡hoi2 ceon4
coast guard
- 逡巡seon1 ceon4
to draw back
- 巡弋ceon4 jik6
(of military ships or aircraft) to patrol; to cruise defensively; (of aircraft) to conduct defensive sorties
- 巡鋪ceon4 pou3
- 巡城馬ceon4 sing4 maa5
courier; postman
- 巡察ceon4 caat3