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Cantonese · Jyutping

Mandarin · Pinyin

  • rùn

English

  1. soft, moist
  2. moist; glossy; sleek
  3. (Cantonese)
  4. sleek
  5. to moisten; to lubricate
  6. to mock
  7. freshen
  8. to embellish; to enhance
  9. to make fun of
  10. profit; remuneration
  11. (neologism c. 2021) (slang) (loanword from "run") to emigrate (in order to flee adverse conditions)
  12. animal liver as food; the Cantonese word for "liver" sounds like "dry", a big taboo in Canton as many farmers rely on plenty of water to grow rice, so the word for "moist" is used as a euphemism to represent "liver"; 膶, the new character created to represent "liver", replaces the "water" radical in the word for "moist" (潤) with a "meat" radical.
  13. to moisten; to soothe with moisture
  14. enriching; soothing; describes something that moistens one's organs or skins
  15. for the same reason as the above, it work as an euphemism in Cantonese to replace "dry" with "moist"
  16. to satirize

粵語

  1. 可食用動物肝臟。「肝」、「乾」同音，廣東盛產水稻，乾旱係大忌，乾旱相反詞係濕潤，所以為咗避諱而創造新字「膶」。
  2. 整濕某啲嘢，令佢濕潤、冇咁乾燥；滋補（器官）
  3. 滋潤；會令人體器官（例如喉嚨）更加濕潤、令皮膚唔會乾燥，變得光滑同細嫩
  4. 「乾」嘅避諱字，原因同上。
  5. 諷刺；調侃；窒；同寸類似，但無咁囂張

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Words containing 潤

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