Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- ruì
English
- sharp, keen, acute, pointed
- acute
Variants
Words containing 銳
- 尖銳zim1 jeoi6
sharp
- 敏銳man5 jeoi6
keen; sharp; acute
- 精銳zing1 jeoi6
elite (e.g. troops)
- 銳利jeoi6 lei6
sharp
- 銳減jeoi6 gaam2
steep decline
- 銳氣jeoi6 hei3
acute spirit
- 銳進jeoi6 zeon3
to advance
- 銳角jeoi6 gok3
acute angle
- 銳志jeoi6 zi3
firm determination
- 銳敏jeoi6 man5
acute
- 尖銳化zim1 jeoi6 faa3
to intensify; to become acute; to come to a head
- 新銳san1 jeoi6
cutting-edge (in technology, science, fashion, the arts etc)
- 尖銳批評zim1 jeoi6 pai1 ping4
sharp criticism
- 銳化jeoi6 faa3
to sharpen
- 銳意jeoi6 ji3
acute determination
- 銳步jeoi6 bou6
Reebok (sportswear manufacturer)
- 銳評jeoi6 ping4
(neologism) incisive commentary (abbr. for 銳利評論|锐利评论[rui4 li4 ping2 lun4])
- 楊銳joeng4 jeoi6
Yang Rui (1855-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
- 銳不可當jeoi6 bat1 ho2 dong1
unstoppable
- 尖銳濕疣zim1 jeoi6 sap1 jau4
genital wart
- 精銳部隊zing1 jeoi6 bou6 deoi2
Elite Forces; special forces
- 養精蓄銳joeng5 zeng1 cuk1 jeoi6
to preserve and nurture one's spirit (idiom); honing one's strength for the big push