Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- zī
English
- grow, multiply, increase
- to grow
- thrive
- to nourish
- to increase
- to cause
- juice
- taste
- (dialect) to spout
- to spurt
- to grow; to multiply
- to cause; to give rise to
- to provide moisture
- taste; flavour
粵語
- 生長
- 引起
- 潤澤
- 味道
As a component in
Words containing 滋
- 滋味zi1 mei6
taste
- 滋潤zi1 jeon6
moist
- 滋生zi1 sang1
to breed
- 滋養zi1 joeng5
to nourish
- 滋長zi1 zoeng2
to grow (usually of abstract things)
- 愛滋oi3 zi1
AIDS (loanword)
- 滋補zi1 bou2
nourishing
- 滋事zi1 si6
to cause trouble
- 飛滋fei1 zi1
aphthous ulcers
- 滋油zi1 jau4
relax (spoken)
- 愛滋病oi3 zi1 beng6
variant of 艾滋病[ai4 zi1 bing4]
- 滋擾zi1 jiu2
to cause trouble
- 滋悠zi1 jau4
slow
- 生滋saang1 zi1
(of animals) afflicted with fleas or skin disease
- 滋陰zi1 jam1
(of Chinese medicine) to eat something or to do some action to replenish the fluid of internal organs, a way to heal the deficiency of Yin; literally, to moisturize the Yin ----
- 蚊滋man1 zi1
small flying insect; midges; like small mosquitoes, fruit flies etc.
- 滋蔓zi1 maan6
(literary) to spread and grow; to proliferate
- 滋養層zi1 joeng5 cang4
trophoblastic layer (attaches fertilized ovum to the uterus)
- 艾滋病ngaai6 zi1 beng6
(loanword) AIDS
- 滋補品zi1 bou2 ban2
tonic
- 愛滋基摩oi3 zi1 gei1 mo1
a derogatory way to refer to homosexuals, liteally meaning gay AIDS devil [colloquial]
- 艾滋病毒ngaai6 zi1 beng6 duk6
human immune deficiency virus (HIV)
- 滋油淡定zi1 jau4 daam6 ding6
the attitude of being relaxed and steady in doing everything
- 松滋cung4 zi1
see 松滋市[Song1 zi1 Shi4]