Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- láo
English
- prison
- (literary) pen; fold (for livestock)
- stable, pen
- prison; jail
- secure
- firm; secure; fast
- prison; jail
粵語
- 即係監；監獄
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Words containing 牢
- 地牢dei6 lou4
prison
- 坐牢zo6 lou4
to be imprisoned
- 牢固lou4 gu3
firm
- 牢房lou4 fong4
jail cell
- 牢記lou4 gei3
to keep in mind; to remember
- 牢獄lou4 juk6
prison
- 監牢gaam1 lou4
prison
- 市牢si5 lou4
an urban prison in Macau [colloquial]
- 牢騷lou4 sou1
discontent
- 發牢騷faat3 lou4 sou1
to whine
- 水牢seoi2 lou4
prison cell containing water, in which prisoners are forced to be partly immersed
- 牢子lou4 zi2
jailer (old)
- 牢靠lou4 kaau3
firm and solid
- 牢友lou4 jau2
inmate
- 釘牢deng1 lou4
to clinch (a nail)
- 堅牢gin1 lou4
strong
- 蹲牢deon1 lou4
see 蹲大牢[dun1 da4 lao2]
- 牢牢lou4 lou4
firmly
- 牢牢lou4 lou4
firmly
- 牢不可破lou4 bat1 ho2 po3
(idiom) (usu. of sth abstract: an alliance, a conviction etc) unbreakable; rock-solid
- 大牢daai6 lou4
prison
- 牢籠lou4 lung4
cage
- 太牢taai3 lou4
(in ancient times) sacrificial animal (cow, sheep or pig)
- 牢頭lou4 tau4
jailer (old)