Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- yíng
English
- flies
- fly
- musca
- CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- (insect)fly
粵語
- 昆蟲綱雙翅目蠅科嘅統稱
Variants
Words containing 蠅
- 蒼蠅cong1 jing4
housefly
- 牛蠅ngau4 jing4
horsefly; cleg
- 果蠅gwo2 jing4
fruit fly
- 烏蠅wu1 jing1
(noun) (insect) a fly
- 家蠅gaa1 jing4
house fly
- 拍烏蠅paak3 wu1 jing1
(adj.) to describe a place where the business is very quiet
- 捕蠅紙bou6 jing4 zi2
Flypaper
- 蠅頭小利jing4 tau4 siu2 lei6
(idiom) meager profit; petty gain
- 蒼蠅拍cong1 jing4 paak3
flyswatter
- 蒼蠅座cong1 jing4 zo6
Musca (constellation)
- 西班牙蒼蠅sai1 baan1 ngaa4 cong1 jing4
Spanish fly (Lytta vesicatoria) [written and colloquial]
- 馬蠅maa5 jing4
botfly;horse flies
- 蠅子jing4 zi2
housefly
- 蠅虎jing4 fu2
jumping spider (family Salticidae)
- 烏蠅紙wu1 jing1 zi2
flypaper, a sticky strip to catch flies
- 烏蠅拍wu1 jing1 paak2
a flyswatter
- 烏蠅鏡wu1 jing1 geng3
aviator sunglasses
- 毒蠅傘duk6 jing4 saan3
fly Amanita or fly agaric (Amanita muscaria)
- 蠅蛆jing4 zeoi1
fly larva; maggot
- 盲頭烏蠅maang4 tau4 wu1 jing1
(act like) a headless chicken
- 冇頭烏蠅mou5 tau4 wu1 jing1
a headless fly, someone who acts recklessly without a plan
- 無頭烏蠅mou4 tau4 wu1 jing1
someone who runs around like a headless chicken
- 蒼蠅老虎cong1 jing4 lou5 fu2
(coll.) jumping spider (which pounces on houseflies, hence the Chinese name)
- 烏蠅摟馬尾wu1 jing1 lau1 maa5 mei5
(Cantonese analogy - figurative meaning) to break a partnership; to blow up a relation.