Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- wǎn
English
- pull
- to pull
- pull back, draw back
- to draw (a cart or a bow)
- to roll up
- to coil
- to carry on the arm
- to lament the dead
- (fig.) to pull against
- to recover
- to retract; to redeem; to save
- to pull; to recover
粵語
- 補救;挽回;做錯嘢之後,做返啲嘢去整返好
- 拉
Variants
Words containing 挽
- 挽回waan5 wui4
to retrieve
- 挽救waan5 gau3
to save
- 挽留waan5 lau4
to urge to stay
- 挽手waan5 sau2
hands in hands
- 挽鞋waan2 haai4
verb; literally: carry the shoe; Metaphor, look down on someone; or, to serve someone
- 挽力waan5 lik6
pulling power (of draft animals)
- 挽詞waan5 ci4
an elegy
- 推挽teoi1 waan5
to push and pull
- 挽歌waan5 go1
a dirge
- 挽額waan5 ngaak6
elegiac tablet
- 挽辭waan5 ci4
an elegy
- 挽下手waan2 haa5 sau2
something that might seem improbable at first but should not be ruled out
- 挽幛waan5 zoeng3
large elegiac scroll
- 挽水waan2 seoi2
- 挽住waan5 zyu6
- 不可挽回bat1 ho2 waan5 wui4
irreversible
- 挽聯waan5 lyun4
- 挽具waan5 geoi6
harness
- 挽尊waan5 zyun1
(neologism) (slang) to salvage a bit of dignity (abbr. for 挽回尊嚴|挽回尊严[wan3 hui2 zun1 yan2])
- 力挽狂瀾lik6 waan5 kwong4 laan4
to pull strongly against a crazy tide (idiom); fig. to try hard to save a desperate crisis
- 挽救兒童waan5 gau3 ji4 tung4
- 無力挽回mou4 lik6 waan5 wui4
- 冇鞋挽屐走mou5 haai4 waan2 kek6 zau2
leave in a hurry (slang)
- 無可挽回mou4 ho2 waan5 wui4
irrevocable