Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- qīng
English
- dragonfly
- see 蜻蜓[qing1 ting2]
Words containing 蜻
- 蜻蜓cing1 ting4
dragonfly
- 蜻蜓目cing1 ting4 muk6
Odonata, order consisting of about 6,000 species of dragonflies and damselflies
- 竹蜻蜓zuk1 cing1 ting4
bamboo-copter; literally: bamboo dragonfly
- 蜻蜓點水cing1 ting4 dim2 seoi2
lit. the dragonfly touches the water lightly
- 蜻蛉目cing1 ling4 muk6
Odonata, order consisting of about 6,000 species of dragonflies and damselflies
- 蜻蛉cing1 ling4
damselfly
- 蜻蝏cing1 ting4
variant of 蜻蜓[qing1 ting2]
- 草蜻蛉cou2 cing1 ling4
green lacewing
- 劍走蜻蛉gim3 zau2 cing1 ling4
the sword moves like a dragon-fly (modern idiom)
- 蜻蜓撼石柱cing1 ting4 ham6 sek6 cyu5
lit. the dragon-fly shakes the stone tower (idiom); fig. to overestimate one's capabilities