Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- bì
English
- arm
- arm
- (tool) Machine arm
- an arm
粵語
- 手嘅一部份;手腕以上,膊頭對落嘅一段
As a component in
Words containing 臂
- 手臂sau2 bei3
arm (from shoulder to wrist); (fig.) assistant; helper
- 雙臂soeng1 bei3
arms
- 前臂cin4 bei3
forearm
- 臂章bei3 zoeng1
armband
- 上臂soeng6 bei3
upper arm
- 重臂cung5 bei3
actuator (arm of a lever)
- 力臂lik6 bei3
lever arm (i.e. perpendicular distance from the fulcrum to the line of force)
- 交臂gaau1 bei3
linking arms
- 掉臂diu6 bei3
to swing one's arm widely and walk off, meaning not caring at all
- 唱臂coeng3 bei3
tone-arm (tracking arm of gramophone)
- 臂彎bei3 waan1
crook of the arm
- 長臂猿coeng4 bei3 jyun4
gibbon
- 機械臂gei1 haai6 bei3
robotic arm
- 麒麟臂kei4 leon4 bei3
muscular arms or fat arms, usually referring to the arms of women, derogatory; 麒麟 is a mythical chimerical creature in Chinese folklore
- 下臂haa6 bei3
- 花臂faa1 bei3
tattoo-covered arm; tattoo sleeve
- 臂力bei3 lik6
arm strength
- 獵戶臂lip6 wu6 bei3
Orion spiral arm or local spur of our galaxy (containing our solar system)
- 胳臂gaak3 bei3
arm
- 獨臂duk6 bei3
one-armed
- 抱臂pou5 bei3
to cross one's arms
- 臂展bei3 zin2
arm span
- 一臂之力jat1 bei3 zi1 lik6
a helping hand; literally an arm of force
- 三頭六臂saam1 tau4 luk6 bei3
(lit.) (having) three heads and six arms (idiom)