English
- threshold, door-sill
- banister
- door sill
- balustrade
- threshold
- cage for animal or prisoner
- to transport caged prisoner on a cart
- to step across
- threshold
粵語
- 大步跨過
- 門下面一塊直立嘅矮板
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Variants
Words containing 檻
- 門檻mun4 laam6
doorstep
- 馬檻maa5 laam2
brothel
- 下檻haa6 laam6
(architecture) doorsill
- 檻車haam5 ce1
cart with cage, used to escort prisoner
- 籠檻lung4 haam5
cage (for animals)
- 晒馬檻saai3 maa5 laam2
to visit a brothel
- 曬馬檻saai3 maa5 laam2
to visit a brothel
- 檻火盆laam3 fo2 pun4
a ceremony where someone step over a basin of burning yellow paper to signify a new start
- 核門檻hat6 mun4 laam6
nuclear threshold
- 覈門檻hat6 mun4 laam6
- 洗馬檻sai2 maa5 laam2
to steal from the home of a friend, to take away the fund of their own organisation. Literally: to clean the horse stable. The house stable(brothel) as an important income of triad, so a triad robbing a brothel is regarded as one of the worst crime amount gangsters' community.
- 爆馬檻baau3 maa5 laam2
to visit a call-girl centre or a brothel, to get a short-time hotel room.
- 軒檻hin1 laam6
railings of a balcony
- 闌檻laan4 laam6
railing
- 大步檻過daai6 bou6 laam3 gwo3
to get through a crisis or hardship; to overcome an adverse situation
- 檻花籠鶴haam5 faa1 lung4 hok6
a flower in a cage, a crane in a basket (idiom); prisoner
- 雕楹碧檻diu1 jing4 bik1 laam6
carved pillar, jade doorsill (idiom); heavily decorated environment
- 踏破門檻daap6 po3 mun4 laam6
to wear out the doorstep (idiom)
- 朱雲折檻zyu1 wan4 zit3 laam6
(idiom) Zhu Yun breaks the railing (Zhu Yun was a Han Dynasty official who accused the emperor's tutor of corruption, and when sentenced to death, clung to the palace hall railing so fiercely while demanding justice that he broke it); (fig.) to speak the truth with unwavering courage; to admonish fearlessly
- 雲窗霧檻wan4 coeng1 mou6 laam6
cloud around the window, mist on the threshold (idiom); tall building with the windows in the clouds
- 籠鳥檻猿lung4 niu5 laam6 jyun4
bird in a basket, monkey in a cage (idiom); prisoner