Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- zào
English
- dry, parched, arid
- dry; parched
- quick-tempered
- impatient; vexed
- (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [sao4]) minced meat
- dry
粵語
- 乾
As a component in
Words containing 燥
- 乾燥gon1 cou3
(of weather, climate, soil etc) dry; arid
- 燥熱cou3 jit6
uncomfortably hot and dry; stiflingly hot; (of the body) flushed and feverishly warm; (fig.) agitated; restless; irritable; (TCM) dry-heat
- 枯燥fu1 cou3
dry and dull; uninteresting; tedious
- 肉燥juk6 cou3
(Tw) minced pork stewed with soy sauce and spices (served with rice or noodles, or as a filling in buns etc)
- 燥底cou3 dai2
to have excessive inner heat
- 燥火cou3 fo2
(noun internal heat; heat
- 乾燥機gon1 cou3 gei1
a drier
- 浮燥fau4 cou3
variant of 浮躁[fu2 zao4]
- 焦燥ziu1 cou3
variant of 焦躁[jiao1 zao4]
- 大便乾燥daai6 bin6 gon1 cou3
constipated
- 燥子cou3 zi2
minced meat
- 秋燥cau1 cou3
autumn dryness disease (TCM)
- 暴燥bou6 cou3
variant of 暴躁[bao4 zao4]
- 乾燥劑kin4 cou3 zai1
desiccant
- 枯燥無味fu1 cou3 mou4 mei6
tedious
- 風高物燥fung1 gou1 mat6 cou3
windy, dry weather
- 口乾舌燥hau2 gon1 sit3 cou3
lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much
- 燥熱嘢cou3 jit6 je5