Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- qín
English
- catch, capture, seize, arrest
- to capture
- to catch; to capture
- to climb
粵語
- 捉住；捕獲
- 攀爬
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 擒
- 生擒saang1 kam4
to capture alive
- 擒青kam4 ceng1
(adjective) hurried; rushed; hasty
- 擒獲kam4 wok6
to apprehend
- 擒騎kam4 ke4
to describe mischievous restless children who love climbing up and down
- 猴擒hau4 kam4
anxious (spoken)
- 喉擒hau4 kam4
can't wait for; desperate
- 擒樹kam4 syu6
verb; climb the tree
- 擒佬kam4 lou2
spider
- 擒擒青kam4 kam2 ceng1
very urgent, cannot wait, in a hurry
- 擒擒青kam4 kam2 ceng1
very urgent, cannot wait, in a hurry
- 擒上去kam4 soeng5 heoi3
to climb up
- 起擒hei2 kam4
- 就擒zau6 kam4
to be taken prisoner
- 林擒lam4 kam4
- 擒賊kam4 caak6
to capture a thief [written and colloquial]
- 擒爬kam4 paa4
- 飛擒大咬fei1 kam4 daai6 ngaau5
to be greedy
- 束手就擒cuk1 sau2 zau6 kam4
(lit.) to submit to having one's hands tied and being taken prisoner (idiom)
- 擒上擒落kam4 soeng5 kam4 lok6
verb; climbing
- 擒上擒落kam4 soeng5 kam4 lok6
verb; climbing
- 擒嚟擒去kam4 lai4 kam4 heoi3
to run wild; to climb all over the place [colloquial]
- 擒嚟擒去kam4 lai4 kam4 heoi3
to run wild; to climb all over the place [colloquial]
- 擒人節kam4 jan4 zit3
(jocular) Valentine's Day, referring to the rising number of extramarrital affairs being discovered on that day
- 擒上樹kam4 soeng5 syu6