Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- qiān
English
- miserly, parsimonious, stingy
- stingy
- to conserve; to save; to be frugal; to practise thrift
- frugal; thrifty; economical
粵語
- 唔浪費，唔嘥嘢，盡量用少啲時間、錢、資源
- 唔作多餘嘅支出；節儉
Variants
Words containing 慳
- 慳儉haan1 gim6
miserly; stingy
- 慳家haan1 gaa1
adj; describes people who are frugal, economical for supporting one's family
- 慳皮haan1 pei2
to be savvy (with money)
- 慳返haan1 faan1
to save one's effort
- 慳濕haan1 sap1
mean; being excessively careful with giving or spending money
- 知慳識儉zi1 haan1 sik1 gim6
(idiom) to know how to be economical
- 慳電膽haan1 din6 daam2
energy-saving light bulb
- 慳啲啦haan1 di1 laa1
literally " save it for yourself "; Ironically, ask someone to restrain himself
- 慳吝haan1 leon6
(literary) miserly; stingy
- 死慳死抵sei2 haan1 sei2 dai2
to go through extreme measures to save money
- 慳水慳力haan1 seoi2 haan1 lik6
efforts saving
- 慳水慳力haan1 seoi2 haan1 lik6
efforts saving
- 慳番啖氣haan1 faan1 daam6 hei3
saving one's breath (spoken)
- 慳電haan1 din6
electricity saving
- 慳雞haan1 gai1
- 慳位haan1 wai2
space saving
- 慳錢haan1 cin4
save money
- 慳工夫haan1 gung1 fu1
- 緣慳一面jyun4 haan1 jat1 min6
that fate has never brought people to meeting each other
- 死慳爛慳sei2 haan1 laan6 haan1
to save as much as possible
- 死慳爛慳sei2 haan1 laan6 haan1
to save as much as possible
- 慳返啖氣haan1 faan1 daam6 hei3
used to someone who is talking to no effect, "don't waste your time, nobody is listening to you!", "save your breath"; literally: to save breath
- 唔慳皮m4 haan1 pei2
- 冇得慳mou5 dak1 haan1