Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- tòu
English
- penetrate, pass through
- (bound form) to penetrate; to seep through
- (preposition) 1. Via or through; (adjective)
- (of fabrics) transparent; light; diaphanous
- to penetrate; to seep through; to pass through
- to tell secretly; to leak
- Transparent and see through; (verb) Ignite fire (for BBQ or cooking)
- (of understanding) clear
- thoroughly; through and through
- to appear; to show
粵語
- 形容物質唔係點阻擋到啲光線，令到光線可以入到對眼，睇得到影像
- 穿越物質，冇畀中間嘅物質隔住
- 形容對事物嘅了解清楚
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Words containing 透
- 透明tau3 ming4
transparent
- 透視tau3 si6
(drawing and painting) perspective
- 透風tau3 fung1
to let air pass through; to ventilate
- 透過tau3 gwo3
to pass through
- 透露tau3 lou6
to leak out
- 滲透sam3 tau3
(lit. and fig.) to permeate
- 穿透cyun1 tau3
to penetrate
- 透徹tau3 cit3
penetrating; thorough; incisive
- 透氣tau3 hei3
to flow freely (of air)
- 濕透sap1 tau3
drenched
- 看透hon3 tau3
to understand thoroughly
- 透鏡tau3 geng3
lens (optics)
- 通透tung1 tau3
penetrating
- 透火tau3 fo2
igniting a fire (spoken)
- 劇透kek6 tau3
plot leak
- 參透caam1 tau3
to fully grasp
- 透爐tau3 lou4
igniting a cooking stove (spoken)
- 路透社lou6 tau3 se5
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- 透明度tau3 ming4 dou6
transparency
- 浸透zam3 tau3
to soak; to saturate; to drench; to permeate
- 當透明dong3 tau3 ming4
to treat someone as a nobody or irrelevant or unimportant [colloquial]
- 半透明bun3 tau3 ming4
translucent
- 透大氣tau2 daai6 hei3
deep breath (spoken)
- 透支tau3 zi1
(banking) to overdraw