Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- qiú
English
- seek
- to seek
- to beg
- demand, request
- to look for
- beseech
- to request
- to demand
- to beseech
- to beg; to request
- to strive for; to seek
- to want, usually used with an abstract item, such as a wish, never a specific item
- to pray
粵語
- 好誠懇噉請對方幫手,希望對方同意
- 爭取;俾心機去做一件事
- 想要,通常配搭一啲抽象嘅嘢,例如願望,唔會係一樣特定嘅物件
- 祈禱
As a component in · 86
Words containing 求
- 需求seoi1 kau4
requirement
- 請求ceng2 kau4
to request; to ask
- 要求jiu1 kau4
to request
- 哀求oi1 kau4
to entreat
- 追求zeoi1 kau4
to pursue (a goal etc) stubbornly
- 求偶kau4 ngau5
to seek a marriage partner
- 尋求cam4 kau4
to seek; to look for
- 訴求sou3 kau4
to demand; to call for; to petition
- 求助kau4 zo6
to request help
- 求其kau4 kei4
(adverb) sloppily; shoddily; slackly; randomly; casually; anyhow; haphazardly (describes the unmindfulness in doing something, i.e. without putting much effort or thoughts into it); (expression) "whatever"; "anything goes"; (adjective of an action) perfunctory; slipshod
- 徵求zing1 kau4
to solicit
- 求先kau4 sin1
just now
- 力求lik6 kau4
to make every effort to
- 求職kau4 zik1
to seek employment
- 求婚kau4 fan1
to propose marriage
- 求學kau4 hok6
to pursue one's studies; to attend school
- 謀求mau4 kau4
to seek; to strive for
- 求生kau4 sang1
to seek survival
- 祈求kei4 kau4
to pray for
- 求救kau4 gau3
to seek help (when in distress or having difficulties)
- 求取kau4 ceoi2
to seek after
- 講求gong2 kau4
to stress
- 懇求han2 kau4
to beg
- 求情kau4 cing4
to plea for leniency