English
- embrace, hold in arms, enfold
- to hold
- to hold or to carry in the arms, either towards the breast (to embrace; to hug) or lifting
- to carry (in one's arms)
- to surround
- to hug
- to have an immediate offspring, mostly a grandchild or that of any further generations
- to embrace
- to be in a (mental) state; to have certain feeling (the noun afterwards is usually modified)
- to surround
- to cherish
- (coll.) (of clothes) to fit nicely
粵語
- 用手臂內側圍住，貼近手臂，可以係將佢拉近胸膛，亦可以係舉起佢
- 環繞；圍繞
- 有直系後代，多數指孫或者輩份再細啲嘅直系後代
- （心入面）處於某個狀態、存有某種感覺；抱住；抱持（後面嘅名詞通常會有修飾）
As a component in
Words containing 抱
- 抱怨pou5 jyun3
to complain
- 擁抱jung2 pou5
to embrace
- 抱歉pou5 hip3
to be sorry
- 懷抱waai4 pou5
to hug
- 新抱san1 pou5
daughter-in-law
- 心抱san1 pou5
(noun) son's wife; daughter-in-law
- 水抱seoi2 pou5
an inflatable swim ring; a lifebuoy
- 抱負pou5 fu6
aspiration
- 抱病pou5 beng6
to be ill; to be in poor health
- 環抱waan4 pou5
to encircle
- 抱石pou5 sek6
(sports) bouldering
- 熊抱hung4 pou5
bear hug; to give (sb) a bear-hug
- 摟抱lau5 pou5
to hug
- 公主抱gung1 zyu2 pou5
to carry sb the way grooms carry brides across the threshold
- 抱腳pou5 goek3
shoes fit the feet nicely
- 抱不平pou5 bat1 ping4
to be outraged by an injustice (done to sb else)
- 抱養pou5 joeng5
to adopt (a child)
- 抱恨pou5 han6
to have a gnawing regret
- 抱摔pou5 seoi1
body slam (wrestling move)
- 娶心抱ceoi2 sam1 pou5
for son to marry his wife
- 浮抱fau4 pou5
buoy
- 抱有pou5 jau5
to have (aspirations, suspicions etc)
- 抱死pou5 sei2
(of a wheel during braking) to lock up
- 抱頭pou5 tau4
to put one's hands behind one's head, fingers interlaced