Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- lì
English
- (Cant.) tongue
- (cattle) tongue (Cantonese)
- tongue
粵語
- 舌頭。因為「舌」同「蝕」個音相近唔吉利,所以避諱改讀做「利」(lei6)並新造咗呢個形聲字。(量詞:條)
Words containing 脷
- 龍脷lung4 lei6
sole (fish)
- 橫脷waang4 lei6
pig pancreas
- 脷苔lei6 toi1
tongue coating
- 揦脷laa2 lei6
strong taste; too salty; too spicy (spoken)
- 豬橫脷zyu1 waang4 lei6
pig's pancreas
- 鴨脷洲aap3 lei6 zau1
Ap Lei Chau, an island offshore from Hong Kong Island in the Southern District
- 黐脷根ci1 lei6 gan1
tongue-tied (ankyloglossia); stigmatism
- 牛脷酥ngau4 lei6 sou1
ox tongue pastry, oval Guangdong pastry made of fried dough, resembling an ox tongue
- 脷根lei6 gan1
Frenulum of tongue; lingual frenum
- 鴨脷aap3 lei6
duck tongue
- 乸脷naa2 lei6
lit. stinging one's tongue, meaning very costly, or something or a person who is very tough to handle or bear with
- 𠸎脷laa2 lei6
expensive; pricey; usually being used to describe daily expenditures
- 三口兩脷saam1 hau2 loeng5 lei6
three mouths two tongues, which means lack of credibility
- 攻鼻揦脷gung1 bei6 laa2 lei6
to describe a smell that irritates the nose and a flavour that irritates the taste buds
- 脷底丸lei6 dai2 jyun2
glyceryl trinitrate sublingual tablet
- 牛脷ngau4 lei6
(noun) xo's tongue; Or (food) bovine tongue
- 豬脷zyu1 lei6
pig's tongue
- 脷刮lei6 gwaat3
- 繞脷kiu5 lei6
- 撻脷taat3 lei6
- 剌脷laa2 lei6
- 開口及着脷hoi1 hau2 gap6 zoek6 lei6
(literally: to open one's mouth and bite one's tongue); to be consistently saying the wrong thing
- 繑脷kiu5 lei6
cannot speak smoothly; hard to pronounce; difficult to say
- 條脷冇毛tiu4 lei6 mou5 mou4
near homophone of, and euphemism for 屌你老母 (diu2 nei5 lou5 mou2), meaning: fuck you(r mother)