Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- páo
English
- kitchen
- kitchen
- cooking, cuisine
As a component in
Words containing 庖
- 庖廚paau4 cyu4
kitchen
- 庖代paau4 doi6
overriding one's job duties and authority; to fill in for someone; to perform a duty on behalf of someone else
- 越俎代庖jyut6 zo2 doi6 paau4
lit. to go beyond the sacrificial altar and take over the kitchen (idiom); fig. to exceed one's place and meddle in other people's affairs
- 庖犧氏paau4 hei1 si6
another name for 伏羲[Fu2 Xi1], consort of 女媧|女娲[Nu:3 wa1]
- 庖丁解牛paau4 ding1 gaai2 ngau4
- 君子遠庖廚gwan1 zi2 jyun5 paau4 cyu4
lit. a nobleman stays clear of the kitchen (idiom, from Mencius)