English
- cicada
- cicada
- continuous
- cicada
粵語
- 一種昆蟲，雄性成蟲喺夏天發出好大嘅叫聲求偶，幼蟲由樹上跌落地面匿喺地底生活，大個咗就會脱皮變態爬返樹上（量詞：隻）
Variants
Words containing 蟬
- 蟬聯sim4 lyun4
to continue in a post
- 沙蟬saa1 sim4
cicada
- 秋蟬cau1 sin4
harvest fly; cicada
- 金蟬gam1 sim4
Golden Cicada
- 蟬科sim4 fo1
Cicadidae, homopterous insect family including cicada
- 蟬衣sim4 ji1
cicada slough (used in TCM)
- 蟬蛻sim4 teoi3
cicada slough
- 寒蟬效應hon4 sim4 haau6 jing3
the chilling effect of a climate of fear in which people are afraid to speak their mind
- 蟬聲sim4 sing1
- 蟬蝦sim4 haa1
slipper lobster (family Scyllaridae)
- 蟬翼sim4 jik6
cicada's wing
- 寒蟬hon4 sim4
a cicada in cold weather (used as a metaphor for sb who keeps their thoughts to themself)
- 蟬鳴sim4 ming4
song of cicadas
- 蟬猴sim4 hau4
(coll.) newly-emerged cicada nymph
- 貂蟬diu1 sim4
Diaochan (-192), one of the four legendary beauties 四大美女[si4 da4 mei3 nu:3], in fiction a famous beauty at the break-up of Han dynasty, given as concubine to usurping warlord Dong Zhuo 董卓[Dong3 Zhuo2] to ensure his overthrow by fighting hero Lü Bu 呂布|吕布[Lu:3 Bu4]
- 桂花蟬gwai3 faa1 sim4
a type of cicada that lives amongst osmanthus
- 螳螂捕蟬tong4 long4 bou6 sim4
see 螳螂捕蟬，黃雀在後|螳螂捕蝉，黄雀在后[tang2 lang2 bu3 chan2 , huang2 que4 zai4 hou4]
- 沙蟬叫saa1 sim4 giu3
- 沙蟬殼saa1 sim4 hok3
- 金蟬脫殼gam1 sim4 tyut3 hok3
lit. the cicada sheds its carapace (idiom); fig. to vanish leaving an empty shell
- 噤若寒蟬gam3 joek6 hon4 sim4
to keep quiet out of fear (idiom)
- 靜若寒蟬zing6 joek6 hon4 sim4
- 秋蟬跌落地cau1 sim4 dit3 lok6 dei6