Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- fǔ
English
- axe, hatchet
- hatchet
- chop, hew
- axe
粵語
- 即係斧頭；有兩部分，下半部係畀手揸住嘅長棒，上半部喺鋒利嘅刀刃；斧頭係為咗砍開物件而設計
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Words containing 斧
- 斧頭fu2 tau2
ax
- 板斧baan2 fu2
broad axe
- 打斧頭daa2 fu2 tau4
(phrasal verb) to get a rake off by secretly pocketing the part of the money that is meant for a specific purpose or the earnings from a transaction
- 斧頭邊fu2 tau2 bin1
refers to the Kangxi (radical 170) 阝part of a Chinese character
- 斧子fu2 zi2
axe
- 斧正fu2 zing3
(polite) please amend my writing
- 寬斧fun1 fu2
broadax
- 戰斧zin3 fu2
battle-ax
- 三板斧saam1 baan2 fu2
three-trick pony
- 資斧zi1 fu2
(literary) money for a journey
- 大刀闊斧daai6 dou1 fut3 fu2
bold and decisive
- 三度板斧saam1 dou6 baan2 fu2
to have a limited repertoire of skills [written and colloquial]
- 刀斧手dou1 fu2 sau2
lictor
- 鬼斧神工gwai2 fu2 san1 gung1
supernaturally fine craft (idiom); the work of the Gods
- 班門弄斧baan1 mun4 lung6 fu2
to display one's slight skill before an expert (idiom)
- 鐮刀斧頭lim4 dou1 fu2 tau4
the hammer and sickle (flag of USSR, symbolizing rural and proletarian labor)
- 三道板斧saam1 dou6 baan2 fu2
to have only a limited number of methods to deal with a problem; to have only "a few trick up one's sleeve"; literally: three strokes of the axe
- 神工鬼斧san4 gung1 gwai2 fu2
see 鬼斧神工[gui3 fu3 shen2 gong1]
- 實斧實鑿sat6 fu2 sat6 zok6
promised; for real
- 操斧伐柯cou1 fu2 fat6 o1
(cf Book of Songs) How to fashion an ax handle? You need an ax
- 不避斧鉞bat1 bei6 fu2 jyut6
not trying to avoid the battle-ax (idiom)
- 斧鉞湯鑊fu2 jyut6 tong1 wok6
battle-ax and boiling cauldron (idiom); facing torture and execution
- 刀鋸斧鉞dou1 geoi3 fu2 jyut6
knife, saw, ax and hatchet (idiom); facing torture and execution
- 斧鉞之誅fu2 jyut6 zi1 zyu1
to die by battle-ax (idiom); to be executed