Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- tuó
English
- a stone roller
- steelyard weight
- a heavy stone, a weight, a plummet
- stone roller
- to polish jade with an emery wheel
Variants
Words containing 砣
- 砣錶to4 biu1
pocket watch
- 秤砣cing3 to2
steelyard weight
- 砣子to4 zi2
emery wheel
- 碾砣nin5 to4
roller
- 冇尾飛砣mou5 mei5 fei1 to4
someone or something that comes and goes, and does not come back
- 夯砣haang1 to4
rammer
- 無尾飛砣mou4 mei5 fei1 to4
- 秤砣雖小壓千斤cing3 to4 seoi1 siu2 aat3 cin1 gan1
although small, a steelyard weight may tip a hundred pounds (idiom)