Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- zhá
English
- sluice
- sluice; sluice gate
- (noun) gate or door gate
- flood gate, canal lock
- to dam up water
- (coll.) brake
- (coll.) electric switch
- to block; to prevent someone or something from passing
- gate; fence
- entrance; gate
- refers to the control of some apparatus or device
粵語
- 阻擋;唔畀人或嘢通過
- 由金屬棒或者木條製成、設於出入口,可以關閉嘅裝置(量詞:道)
- 借代出入口
- 借指可以控制嘅開關裝置
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Variants
Words containing 閘
- 閘門zaap6 mun4
sluice gate
- 出閘ceot1 zaap6
literally: to exit the barrier [written and colloquial]; for a prostitute to finish serving a client [colloquial] [written and colloquial]
- 閘機zaap6 gei1
turnstile
- 拉閘laai1 zaap6
to shut
- 閘口zaap6 hau2
open sluice gate
- 入閘jap6 zaap6
to enter the gate, especially in the metro; horses to enter the gate before a race begins; to participate in the election
- 閘住zaap6 zyu6
(expression) literally: "stop it"; usually people say it in an attempt to prevent the unlucky things described
- 鐵閘tit3 zaap6
(noun) metal door gate
- 跳閘tiu3 zaap6
(of a circuit breaker or switch) to trip
- 埋閘maai4 zaap6
closing the gate
- 搶閘coeng2 zaap6
to race to be the first to get something or to do something
- 捲閘gyun2 zaap6
noun; roller shutter, gate
- 大閘蟹daai6 zaap6 haai5
Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis); Shanghai hairy crab
- 手閘sau2 zaap6
handbrake
- 車閘ce1 zaap6
brake (of a car, bicycle etc)
- 氣閘hei3 zaap6
pneumatic brake
- 落閘lok6 zaap6
to pull down the store front shutters, which is to close shop
- 街閘gaai1 zaap6
building main gate; lane gate (of the main entrance of building blocks)
- 閘角zaap6 gok3
to cut away a corner
- 頂閘ding2 zaap6
fully loaded (in the context of passenger vehicle)
- 閘骨zaap6 gwat1
overlock stitch, for edging, hemming, or seaming
- 閘側zaap6 zak1
to tilt to one side
- 閘盒zaap6 hap6
electric fusebox
- 趟閘tong3 zaap6
sliding gate; sliding door