Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- lí
English
- bamboo or wooden fence
- a fence
- hedge
- spider; sieve; strainer
粵語
- 即係笊籬，係用嚟係湯水或者油入面，將食物撈出嚟嘅工具
Variants
Words containing 籬
- 籬笆lei4 baa1
fence (esp. of bamboo or wood railings)
- 隔籬gaak3 lei4
(noun) next door neighbour; (preposition) nearby; beside
- 籬士lei1 si2
(English loan) lace
- 樹籬syu6 lei4
hedge
- 疏籬so1 lei1
(adjective) alienated; wide apart; estranged
- 罩籬zaau3 lei1
a strainer made out of bamboo
- 籬垣lei4 wun4
fence
- 柵籬caak3 lei4
hedge
- 樊籬faan4 lei4
(lit.) fence; hedge
- 竹籬笆zuk1 lei4 baa1
fence
- 聽過隔籬teng1 gwo3 gaak3 lei4
misheard
- 笊籬zaau3 lei4
strainer (made of bamboo, wicker, or wire)
- 圍籬wai4 lei4
fence; paling
- 隔籬飯香gaak3 lei4 faan6 hoeng1
"the grass is always greener" (idiom)
- 寄人籬下gei3 jan4 lei4 haa6
to lodge under another person's roof (idiom); to live relying on sb else's charity
- 恨死隔籬han6 sei2 gaak3 lei4
envy (spoken)
- 攀籬paan1 lei4
- 隔籬鄰舍gaak3 lei4 leon4 se5
neighbours (spoken)
- 藩籬faan4 lei4
hedge
- 靴籬鶯hoe1 lei4 ang1
(bird species of China) booted warbler (Iduna caligata)
- 箔籬bok6 lei4
(dialect) partition or screen made of plaited bamboo (or rushes, grain stalks etc); a weir of similar construction used to trap fish
- 笆籬子baa1 lei4 zi2
(dialect) prison
- 賽氏籬鶯coi3 si6 lei4 ang1
(bird species of China) Sykes's warbler (Iduna rama)
- 諗錯隔籬nam2 co3 gaak3 lei4
To think in the wrong way