Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- chōng
English
- pour, infuse, steep
- (of water) to dash against
- to rinse; to flush
- wash away
- to mix with water
- to be washed away by water
- to infuse
- to make a drink by pouring water onto concentrated substance such as tea leaves, coffee beans, milk powder, concentrated juice, etc.
- to rinse
- (of photography) to develop
- to flush
- to develop (a film)
- to rise in the air
- to clash
- to collide with
粵語
- 用快速嘅水流嚟清潔、洗刷一啲嘢
- 被水撞擊或捲走
- 製作一啲要用水開嘅飲品
- 沖曬;而家多數只係專指沖曬裏面,用顯影藥水沖洗菲林嘅過程
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 沖
- 出沖ceot1 cung1
a terminology in mahjong, melding another player's discard
- 沖洗cung1 sai2
to rinse; to wash
- 對沖deoi3 cung1
hedging (finance)
- 沖茶cung1 caa4
brew tea
- 沖繩cung1 sing4
Okinawa (prefecture and island group in Japan)
- 沖印cung1 jan3
to develop and print (photographic film)
- 沖曬cung1 saai3
to develop photographs
- 沖劑cung1 zai1
medicine to be taken after being mixed with water (or other liquid)
- 沖淡cung1 taam5
to dilute
- 沖積cung1 zik1
to alluviate
- 沖刷cung1 caat3
to cleanse
- 沖涼cung1 loeng4
(dialect) to take a shower
- 沖廁cung1 ci3
to flush the toilet; toilet flush
- 回沖wui4 cung1
backwash
- 沖水cung1 seoi2
to flush the toilet
- 沖破cung1 po3
(verb) Break through; surmount
- 林沖lam4 cung1
Lin Chong, one of the Heroes of the Marsh in Water Margin
- 沖身cung1 san1
to take a quick shower; literally, to shower the body.
- 八沖baat3 cung1
eight surges (a group of eight acupoints in Chinese acupuncture, namely PC-9, TB-1, HT-9 and LV-3, bilaterally)
- 沖沖cung1 cung1
excitedly
- 沖沖cung1 cung1
excitedly
- 沖決cung1 kyut3
to burst (e.g. a dam)
- 沖晒cung1 saai3
to develop and print (photograph)
- 沖服cung1 fuk6
to take medicine in solution