Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- lèi
English
- tears
- (bound form) tears; teardrops
- weep, cry
- tear
粵語
- 淚腺嘅分泌物，用嚟滋潤眼球或者沖走異物；喺一個人嘅情緒去到極端嘅時候，淚腺亦都會分泌淚水，發泄情緒（量詞：滴／行）
Variants
Words containing 淚
- 眼淚ngaan5 leoi6
tear; teardrop
- 淚水leoi6 seoi2
teardrop
- 落淚lok6 leoi6
to shed tears
- 含淚ham4 leoi6
tearful
- 熱淚jit6 leoi6
hot tears
- 催淚ceoi1 leoi6
to move to tears (of a story)
- 垂淚seoi4 leoi6
to shed tears
- 淚痕leoi6 han4
tear stains
- 眼淚水ngaan5 leoi6 seoi2
(noun) tear
- 催淚彈ceoi1 leoi6 daan2
tear bomb
- 淚腺leoi6 sin3
Lacrimal gland
- 血淚史hyut3 leoi6 si2
(fig.) history full of suffering
- 淚眼leoi6 ngaan5
tearful eyes
- 忍淚jan2 leoi6
to hold back tears
- 淚液leoi6 jik6
tears
- 熱淚盈眶jit6 leoi6 jing4 hong1
eyes brimming with tears of excitement (idiom)
- 流眼淚lau4 ngaan5 leoi6
to cry; to shed tears
- 流淚lau4 leoi6
to shed tears
- 一殼眼淚jat1 hok3 ngaan5 leoi6
feeling of sadness; literally 'a scoop of tears'
- 血淚hyut3 leoi6
tears of blood (symbol of extreme suffering)
- 鱷魚淚ngok6 jyu4 leoi6
crocodile tears, superficial
- 淚人leoi6 jan4
person who is crying their eyes out, whose face is wet with tears
- 淚點leoi6 dim2
(anatomy) lacrimal punctum
- 淚花leoi6 faa1
tears in the eyes