English
- butterfly
- (bound form) butterfly
- butterfly
粵語
- 即係蝴蝶
Variants
Words containing 蝶
- 蝴蝶wu4 dip2
butterfly
- 蝶式dip6 sik1
butterfly stroke
- 蝶泳dip6 wing6
butterfly stroke (swimming)
- 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
- 蝶類dip6 leoi6
butterfly (family)
- 蝶蘭dip6 laan4
Phalaenopsis (flower genus)
- 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
- 蝶變dip6 bin3
(of a caterpillar etc) to metamorphose
- 銀蝶ngan4 dip2
- 粉蝶fan2 dip6
pierid (butterfly of the Pieridae family)
- 蝶骨dip6 gwat1
sphenoid bone (front of the temple)
- 胡蝶wu4 dip6
variant of 蝴蝶[hu2 die2]
- 鳳蝶fung6 dip6
swallowtail butterfly
- 蝶戀花dip6 lyun2 faa1
Butterflies over flower, the name of a tune
- 蝶竇dip6 dau6
sphenoidal sinus
- 燕尾蝶jin3 mei5 dip6
swallowtail butterfly (family Papilionidae)