Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- ǒu
English
- lotus root
- root of lotus
- short form of lotus root, see 蓮藕
粵語
- 蓮藕嘅簡稱
Words containing 藕
- 蓮藕lin4 ngau5
lotus root
- 拋生藕paau1 saang1 ngau5
(Cantonese) (of a woman) to direct a coquettish look, comment or gesture at a guy
- 藕粉ngau5 fan2
lotus root starch
- 賣生藕maai6 saang1 ngau5
women flirting with men (slang)
- 煲老藕bou1 lou5 ngau5
(slang) a younger man in a relationship with older woman
- 大碌藕daai6 luk1 ngau5
people who like being lazy, who only eat, drink and play
- 大轆藕daai6 luk1 ngau5
people who spend money like water; a spendthrift
- 老藕lou5 ngau5
(literally: old lotus root); an unattractive elderly woman
- 吃藕hek3 ngau5
(slang) unattractive; ugly (derived from near homophone 醜|丑[chou3])
- 藕絲ngau5 si1
- 藕瓜ngau5 gwaa1
- 藕筒ngau5 tung2
- 藕斷絲連ngau5 dyun6 si1 lin4
lit. lotus roots may break, but the fiber remains joined (idiom); lovers part, but still long for one another
- 蓮藕湯lin4 ngau5 tong1
- 掘大藕gwat6 daai6 ngau5
- 切藕咁多口cit3 ngau5 gam3 do1 hau2
to talk too much and too noisily
- 大轆藕擡色daai6 luk1 ngau5 toi4 sik1