Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- kòu
English
- knock, strike, rap, tap
- to fasten
- button
- to button
- button
- buckle
- knot
- to arrest
- to confiscate
- to deduct (money)
- discount
- to knock
- to smash, spike or dunk (a ball)
- to cover (with a bowl etc)
- (fig.) to tag a label on sb
- (Tw) (loanword) code
- to buckle; to fasten
- to deduct; to minus
- to withhold something or someone forcefully
- to braise
粵語
- 用圈，套或者帶環繞著一樣嘢將之固定
- 減除
- 強留；羈押
- 用高熱將食材蒸熟，將唔同食材嘅味道濃縮並保存響一款食材入面
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Variants
Words containing 扣
- 回扣wui4 kau3
brokerage
- 折扣zit3 kau3
discount
- 扣押kau3 aat3
to detain
- 扣留kau3 lau4
to detain sb; to hold sb against their will
- 扣除kau3 ceoi4
to deduct
- 手扣sau2 kau3
handcuffs
- 扣殺kau3 saat3
to smash a ball
- 扣查kau3 caa4
to detain and question
- 扣題kau3 tai4
to stick to the topic
- 扣減kau3 gaam2
to deduct
- 紐扣nau2 kau3
button
- 扣針kau3 zam1
a safety pin
- 扣喉kau3 hau4
verb; purge; To retch,
- 扣發kau3 faat3
to deprive
- 魚扣jyu4 kau3
fish stomach
- 扣雞kau3 gai1
to pull the trigger (of a gun) and fire
- 代扣doi6 kau3
to withhold tax (from employee's salary)
- 扣底kau3 dai2
meal order instruction, to decrease the portion of rice/noodles in a dish, it doesn't apply to meat or vegetables; a jargon from Hong Kong-style cafe; literally, to minus bottom
- 扣擊kau3 gik1
to smash a ball
- 吊扣diu3 kau3
to suspend (a license etc)
- 鉤扣ngau1 kau3
hook
- 不折不扣bat1 zit3 bat1 kau3
a hundred percent
- 扣繳kau3 giu2
to withhold
- 袖扣zau6 kau3
cuff link