Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- qiáo
English
- bridge
- bridge
- bridge, the building structure
- plan; idea
- by chance; coincidental
- beam, crosspiece
- CL:座[zuo4]
- plot of a story
粵語
- 一種喺半空作為路嘅建築物,用嚟避開一啲障礙物,例如水域、山谷、另一條路,從而連接唔同地點(量詞:條)
- 計劃、諗法(量詞:條)
- 形容一件機率唔大嘅事發生咗;表示咁啱、偶然或者巧合
- 即係橋段;一個劇本嘅情節(量詞:條)
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 橋
- 天橋tin1 kiu4
Tianqiao district of Jinan city 濟南市|济南市[Ji3 nan2 shi4], Shandong
- 橋樑kiu4 loeng4
bridge
- 死橋sei2 kiu2
bad or cheeky idea (spoken)
- 度橋dok6 kiu2
plotting
- 戲橋hei3 kiu2
story plot (spoken)
- 過橋gwo3 kiu2
to avoid trouble and responsibility (spoken)
- 橋牌kiu4 paai2
contract bridge (card game)
- 橋段kiu4 dyun6
(cinema, literature etc) scene
- 吊橋diu3 kiu4
drawbridge
- 屎橋si2 kiu2
a lousy plan
- 抬橋toi4 kiu4
to assist a candidate's election activities; to help someone's campaign [colloquial]
- 拱橋gung2 kiu4
arch bridge
- 旱橋hon5 kiu4
a flyover; an overpass; an overbridge; a land bridge; a viaduct
- 橋躉kiu4 dan2
a bridge pier
- 劍橋gim3 kiu4
Cambridge
- 橋手kiu4 sau2
use of forearms in attack and defense in martial arts
- 穿橋cyun1 kiu2
to expose, to spoil the key trope, final answer to the audiences deliberately, to leave them out of surprises when reading or watching the whole thing, applies to jokes, story telling, myth or movies. Literally: spill the trope
- 架橋gaa3 kiu4
to bridge
- 橋底kiu4 dai2
under the bridge
- 艦橋laam6 kiu4
bridge (of a naval ship)
- 釘橋deng1 kiu4
homophonic for 'thank you'
- 弔橋diu3 kiu4
a drawbridge
- 抄橋caau1 kiu2
to copy one's ideas
- 大橋daai6 kiu4
Da Qiao, one of the Two Qiaos, according to Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义[San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4], the two great beauties of ancient China