English
- balance, scale, steelyard
- to weigh (variant of 稱|称[cheng1])
- steelyard balance; Roman balance
- (verb) weigh
- a balance; (a pair of) scales
- to weigh something with a steelyard; to put something on the scales
- steelyard balance; Roman balance
- CL:臺|台[tai2]
- to lift up; to grab; to pull
粵語
- 衡量物體輕重嘅工具
- 量度輕重
- 一種運用槓桿原理量度物體重量嘅器具（量詞：個／把）
- 用手抽起，拎起一樣嘢
Variants
Words containing 秤
- 天秤tin1 ping4
balance scale
- 秤盤cing3 pun2
the tray or pan of a steelyard balance
- 夠秤gau3 cing3
noun; adult (age over 18 years old)
- 抽秤cau1 cing3
to find faults in someone
- 秤桿cing3 gon1
the beam of a steelyard
- 呃秤ngaak1 cing3
(a merchant who) cheats the customer by rigging the scales
- 天秤座tin1 ping4 zo6
Libra (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
- 秤砣cing3 to2
steelyard weight
- 市秤si5 cing3
Market Scale
- 秤頭cing3 tau4
weight
- 重秤cung5 cing3
heavy weighted (spoken)
- 秤先cing3 sin1
to point out one of the counterparts has advantage in the match; to put the candidate(s) to the leading position in a rating
- 盤秤pun4 cing3
balance consisting of steelyard with a pan
- 足秤zuk1 cing3
(of goods) in an adequate quantity or weight
- 輕秤heng1 cing3
low density
- 搭秤daap3 cing3
decorative stuffs that cost much less than the main product, sometimes the hawker or butcher would add these to the scale in order to give less meat for the same price. Literally: add-on to the scale
- 掉秤diu6 cing3
to lose weight (of cattle)
- 秤鉤cing3 ngau1
steelyard hook
- 桿秤gon1 cing3
a steelyard (a type of balance)
- 磅秤bong6 cing3
scale
- 未夠秤mei6 gau3 cing3
not old enough; not senior enough; to not carry enough weight (not have enough importance) [colloquial]
- 唔夠秤m4 gau3 cing3
not adult yet
- 秤坨cing3 to4
variant of 秤砣[cheng4 tuo2]
- 秤鉈cing3 to2
counterweight of a balance