Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- tuó
English
- slip, stumble, falter
- to stumble
- vacillate
- to waste time
Words containing 跎
- 跎仔to4 zai2
to be pregnant [colloquial]
- 跎鐵to4 tit3
to carry to gun; to be armed; to work in the police force [colloquial]
- 跎槍to4 coeng1
to carry to gun; to be armed; to work in the police force [colloquial]
- 跎炮to4 paau3
to carry to gun; to be armed; to work in the police force [colloquial]
- 蹉跎co1 to4
(literary) to slip
- 年已蹉跎nin4 ji5 co1 to4
the years have already gone by; to be too old
- 日月蹉跎jat6 jyut6 co1 to4
the years have slipped by
- 蹉跎歲月co1 to4 seoi3 jyut6
to let years and months slip by – to waste one's time; to allow time to slip away