English
- plant allied to the waterlily
- Gorgon plant
- fox nut (Gorgon euryale or Euryale ferox)
- makhana (Hindi)
- a mixture of starch and water, XX
粵語
- 主要指用生粉加水調成嘅汁，亦指所有於烹調過程中用嚟令醬汁或湯變濃變黏既汁液
As a component in
Words containing 芡
- 打芡daa2 hin3
verb; to thicken the sauce (cookery)
- 埋芡maai4 hin3
to finish cooking a dish by adding sauce to it ----
- 粉芡fan2 him3
cooking starch
- 芡粉him3 fan2
cornstarch
- 芡汁hin3 zap1
a mixture of starch and water,
- 勾芡ngau1 him3
to thicken with cornstarch
- 芡實him3 sat6
Gorgon fruit
- 打個靚芡daa2 go3 leng3 hin3
to masturbate; to jerk off; literally, to add some nice corn-starch mixture