Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- léi
- lèi
English
- rub, grind
- to pound (with a mortar and pestle); to hit (a person); to beat (a drum); to bang on (a door)
- (bound form) platform for a martial art contest
- grind with a mortar and pestle
- (dialect) to scold
- Taiwan pr. [lei2]
- triturate
- to enter a hole with the head first; to squeeze the upper body into a narrow gap; also can refer to crowding in next to or brushing against someone with the head or face
- to curl up; to huddle somewhere to sleep
- to collapse suddenly due to exhaustion, with both the knees and upper body making contact with the ground, or assuming a fetal position
粵語
- 捐個頭入去、攝個上身入去狹窄地方;用頭或面靠近、磨擦;類似哄
- 蜷縮住個身瞓喺一個地方
- 身體忽然乏力向前跌倒,膝頭同上半身都掂到地,或蜷縮住咁瞓咗響地
Words containing 擂
- 死擂sei2 leoi4
work oneself to death; work extremely hard
- 擂鼓leoi4 gu2
to beat a drum
- 擂臺leoi4 toi4
elevated stage on which martial competitions or duels were held
- 打擂臺daa2 leoi4 toi4
(old) to fight on the leitai
- 擂低leoi1 dai1
to fall on knee and cower on ground
- 吹擂ceoi1 leoi4
to talk big
- 擂槌leoi4 ceoi4
a smooth and short rod for food milling
- 擂臺賽leoi4 toi4 coi3
single-elimination open tournament (the winner stays on until he is himself defeated)
- 擺擂臺baai2 leoi4 toi4
competition
- 倔擂槌gwat6 leoi4 ceoi4
stubborn; blunt; pig-headed
- 擂茶leoi4 caa4
"leicha", a beverage or gruel made from tea leaves, roasted peanuts and herbs etc ground into a powder, traditionally consumed by Hakka people and in the north of Hunan province
- 自吹自擂zi6 ceoi1 zi6 leoi4
to blow one's own trumpet (idiom)
- 擂沙湯圓leoi4 saa1 tong1 jyun2
a type of sweet dumplings (湯圓 tong1 jyun2) stuffed with sesame, peanut puree, coconut flakes and brown sugar.
- 擂鼓鳴金leoi4 gu2 ming4 gam1
to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom); fig. to order an advance or retreat
- 擂沙湯丸leoi4 saa1 tong1 jyun2
a type of sweet dumplings (湯圓 tong1 jyun2) stuffed with sesame, peanut puree, coconut flakes and brown sugar.
- 擂漿棍leoi4 zoeng1 gwan3
- 屈擂槌gwat1 leoi4 ceoi4
- 大吹大擂daai6 ceoi1 daai6 leoi4
to make an exhibition of oneself
- 死擂爛擂sei2 leoi4 laan6 leoi4
- 死擂爛擂sei2 leoi4 laan6 leoi4