Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- shī
English
- louse
- louse
- bedbug
- louse; flea
粵語
- 一種寄生係人、動物或植物身上嘅昆蟲，靠吸血或植物汁液維生；頭細、口突、肚大、冇翼；可以傳染疾病（量詞：隻）
Variants
Words containing 蝨
- 木蝨muk6 sat1
woodlouse
- 狗蝨gau2 sat1
dog's flea
- 塘蝨tong4 sat1
Clariidae, airbreathing catfishes
- 蝨乸sat1 naa2
(noun) (of insect) louse; cootie (in most cases, it refers to cootie)
- 龍蝨lung4 sat1
dytiscidae
- 跳蝨tiu3 sat1
a flea
- 貓蝨maau1 sat1
cat flea
- 壁蝨bik1 sat1
Rhipicephalus, ticks
- 捉字蝨zuk1 zi6 sat1
verb; play with the words. It refers to harshly looking for the mistakes of others, of the words
- 沙蝨saa1 sat1
jigger; chigoe flea; nigua; sand flea
- 蝨子sat1 zi2
louse (Pediculus humanus)
- 頭蝨tau4 sat1
head lice
- 體蝨tai2 sat1
body louse
- 陰蝨jam1 sat1
crab louse; pubic louse
- 床蝨cong4 sat1
bedbug
- 塘蝨魚tong4 sat1 jyu2
Airbreathing catfish
- 蝨乸擔枷sat1 naa2 daam1 gaa1
very strict and harsh punishment
- 蝨米sat1 mai5
- 蝨母sat1 mou5
- 狗蝨覺gau2 sat1 gaau3
light sleep
- 蝨乸春sat1 naa2 ceon1
louse eggs; nits
- 蝨目魚sat1 muk6 jyu4
variant of 虱目魚|虱目鱼[shi1 mu4 yu2]
- 蝨多不癢sat1 do1 bat1 joeng5
(lit.) when covered with lice, one doesn't feel the itching anymore (idiom)
- 食蝨米sik6 sat1 mai5