English
- overflow, spill over, spread out
- to spread out
- to develop
- to overflow
- to amplify
- superfluous
- expand; extend
粵語
- 延伸、散布
As a component in
Words containing 衍
- 衍生hin2 sang1
to give rise to
- 繁衍faan4 hin2
to multiply
- 敷衍fu1 hin2
to elaborate (on a theme)
- 衍生工具hin2 sang1 gung1 geoi6
derivative (finance)
- 衍化jin5 faa3
to evolve (of ideas, designs, constructions etc)
- 衍變jin5 bin3
to develop
- 鋪衍pou1 jin5
to spread out widely
- 衍伸jin5 san1
to give rise (to)
- 衍聖公hin2 sing3 gung1
hereditary title bestowed on Confucius' descendants
- 蕃衍faan4 jin5
variant of 繁衍[fan2 yan3]
- 鄒衍zau1 jin5
Zou Yan (305-240 BC), founder of the School of Yin-Yang of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
- 衍射jin2 se6
(physics) to diffract
- 衍射角jin5 se6 gok3
angle of diffraction (physics)
- 敷衍塞責fu1 hin2 sak1 zaak3
(idiom) to skimp on the job; to work half-heartedly; not to take the job seriously
- 衍傳jin2 cyun4
- 推衍teoi1 jin2
to deduce
- 夏衍haa6 jin2
Xia Yan (1900-1995), Chinese writer, playwright, socialist critic and movie pioneer
- 沃衍juk1 jin2
rich and fertile (soil)
- 衍生物jin2 sang1 mat6
derivative; offshoot
- 衍生詞jin2 sang1 ci4
- 衍生劇jin2 sang1 kek6
spin-off series (TV)
- 篋衍haap6 jin2
bamboo box
- 衍射格子jin5 se6 gaak3 zi2
diffraction grating (physics)
- 敷衍我fu1 hin2 ngo5