Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- kǎn
English
- hack, chop, cut, fell
- to chop
- to cut down
- to throw sth at sb
- to cut; to chop
粵語
- 用利器將物件大力噉劈斷
As a component in
Words containing 砍
- 砍伐ham2 fat6
to hew
- 砍價ham2 gaa3
to bargain
- 砍大山ham2 daai6 saan1
variant of 侃大山[kan3 da4 shan1]
- 砍樹ham2 syu6
to chop wood
- 砍傷ham2 soeng1
to wound with a blade or hatchet
- 砍刀ham2 dou1
machete
- 砍斷ham2 dyun6
to chop off
- 砍頭ham2 tau4
to decapitate; to behead
- 砍死ham2 sei2
to hack to death
- 砍殺ham2 saat3
to attack with a bladed weapon
- 砍埋ham2 maai4
to bang into [colloquial]
- 濫砍laam6 ham2
- 砍手指ham2 sau2 zi2
- 砍掉重練ham2 diu6 cung4 lin6
to start all over again
- 濫砍濫伐laam6 ham2 laam6 fat6
wanton destruction of forested lands
- 砍頭不過風吹帽ham2 tau4 bat1 gwo3 fung1 ceoi1 mou6
to regard decapitation as no more important than the wind blowing off your hat (idiom)
- 磨刀不誤砍柴工mo4 dou1 bat1 ng6 ham2 caai4 gung1
lit. sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer (idiom)