Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- jiǎn
English
- bamboo tube, wooden peg
- bamboo conduit
- (noun) 1. Soap; 2. Lye
- spout
- wooden peg
- spout
- same as 筧|笕
- soap
粵語
- 同番梘
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Words containing 梘
- 梘水gaan2 seoi2
(noun) soap (noun) Lye Water, which is a cooking ingredient
- 香梘hoeng1 gaan2
soap
- 梘粉gaan2 fan2
washing powder for clothes
- 番梘faan1 gaan2
(noun) soap
- 梘液gaan2 jik6
liquid soap
- 梘片gaan2 pin2
- 梘盒gaan2 hap6
- 洗面梘sai2 min6 gaan2
(noun) facial soap
- 執番梘zap1 faan1 gaan2
to leave oneself vulnerable to sodomy; refers to a phenomemon in male prisons where prisoners, due to an inability to satisfy sexual urges, turn to fellow prisoners for gratification; it is said that dropping the soap while in the showers and bending down to pick it up presents an opportunity for another prisoner to forcibly sodomize them; literally: to pick up the soap
- 洗衫梘sai2 saam1 gaan2
laundry soap
- 梘水粽gaan2 seoi2 zung2
(food) Sticky rice dumplings treated with lye water
- 梘水糉gaan2 seoi2 zung2
lye rice dumpling
- 藥水梘joek6 seoi2 gaan2
- 番梘泡faan1 gaan2 pou5
- 吹番梘𦢊ceoi1 faan1 gaan2 pok1