Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- xián
English
- saliva
- saliva
- saliva
粵語
- 口水
Variants
Words containing 涎
- 垂涎seoi4 jin4
to drool; to salivate
- 黏涎nim1 jin4
saliva; slobber
- 涎沫jin4 mut6
spittle
- 垂涎三尺seoi4 jin4 saam1 cek3
to drool (over) (idiom)
- 涎水jin4 seoi2
saliva
- 流涎lau4 jin4
(literary) to salivate; to drool; (fig.) to crave sth hungrily
- 垂涎欲滴seoi4 jin4 juk6 dik6
to drool with desire (idiom); to envy
- 龍涎香lung4 jin4 hoeng1
ambergris
- 染指垂涎jim5 zi2 seoi4 jin4
lit. dirty finger, mouth watering (idiom); fig. greedy to seize sth
- 饞涎欲滴caam4 jin4 juk6 dik1
lit. to drool with desire (idiom)
- 饞涎欲垂caam4 jin4 juk6 seoi4
see 饞涎欲滴|馋涎欲滴[chan2 xian2 yu4 di1]
- 黏涎子nim4 jin4 zi2
saliva