Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- liáo
English
- somewhat, slightly, at least
- (coll.) to chat
- to chat
- (literary) temporarily; for a while
- (literary) somewhat; slightly
- (literary) to depend upon
粵語
- 傾;傾計
As a component in
Words containing 聊
- 無聊mou4 liu4
bored
- 聊天liu4 tin1
to chat; to gossip
- 閒聊haan4 liu4
to chat
- 聊天室liu4 tin1 sat1
chat room
- 無聊賴mou4 liu4 laai6
to be utterly bored; to not have any sustenance; spiritual void
- 聊且liu4 ce2
for the time being; tentatively
- 陪聊pui4 liu4
to keep sb company for a chat
- 聊賴liu4 laai6
to suffer tedium
- 聊敘liu4 zeoi6
to speak tentatively
- 裸聊lo2 liu4
to chat naked (online)
- 聊下liu4 haa5
- 聊以liu4 ji5
to use it (or do it) for the purpose of (allaying hunger, relieving boredom etc) to some extent
- 百無聊賴baak3 mou4 liu4 laai6
(idiom) bored to death; bored stiff; overcome with boredom
- 聊生liu4 sang1
to earn a living (esp. with negative)
- 聊城liu4 sing4
see 聊城市[Liao2 cheng2 Shi4]
- 群聊kwan4 liu4
(computing) group chat; to have a group chat
- 聊備liu4 bei6
to provide on a makeshift basis; to use temporarily as
- 私聊si1 liu4
(computing) to chat privately; private chat
- 聊騷liu4 sou1
to chat flirtatiously
- 民不聊生man4 bat1 liu4 sang1
(idiom) the people have no way to make a living (from Records of the Grand Historian 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4])
- 聊勝於無liu4 sing3 jyu1 mou4
better than nothing (idiom)
- 聊天兒liu4 tin1 ji4
erhua variant of 聊天[liao2 tian1]
- 聊城市liu4 sing4 si5
Liaocheng, prefecture-level city in Shandong Province 山東省|山东省[Shan1 dong1 Sheng3]
- 聊電話liu4 din6 waa3