Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- hú
English
- butterfly
- used in 蝴蝶[hu2 die2]
Words containing 蝴
- 蝴蝶wu4 dip2
butterfly
- 蝴蝶結wu4 dip6 git3
bow
- 蝴蝶刀wu4 dip6 dou1
balisong; butterfly knife; fan knife
- 蝴蝶蘭wu4 dip6 laan4
moth orchid (genus Phalaenopsis)
- 蝴蝶粉wu4 dip2 fan2
farfalle [written and colloquial]
- 蝴蝶酥wu4 dip6 sou1
crispy short-crust pastry
- 蝴蝶效應wu4 dip6 haau6 jing3
butterfly effect (dynamical systems theory)
- 蝴蝶花wu4 dip6 faa1
iris
- 玉蝴蝶juk6 wu4 dip6
Oroxylum indicum, literally "jade butterfly" ----
- 蝴蝶犬wu4 dip6 hyun2
papillon (lapdog with butterfly-like ears)
- 蝴蝶琴wu4 dip6 kam4
same as yangqin 揚琴|扬琴, dulcimer
- 蝴蝶褶wu4 dip6 zaap6
- 蝴蝶鉸wu4 dip6 gaau2
hinge
- 鴛鴦蝴蝶jyun1 joeng1 wu4 dip6
Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds)
- 蝴蝶領結wu4 dip6 ling5 git3
bow tie
- 鴛鴦蝴蝶派jyun1 joeng1 wu4 dip6 paai3
Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) literary school around 1900, criticized as populist and romantic by socialist realists
- 蝴碟山wu4 dip6 saan1