Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- wán
English
- obstinate, stubborn
- mischievous
- recalcitrant
- obstinate
- to play
- stupid
- stubborn
- naughty
- stubborn
- (of children) mischievous; ill-behaved
粵語
- 固執；唔改變
- 細路仔曳、百厭
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 頑
- 頑強waan4 koeng4
tenacious
- 頑皮waan4 pei4
naughty
- 頑固waan4 gu3
stubborn; obstinate
- 頑症waan4 zing3
see 頑疾|顽疾[wan2 ji2]
- 頑疾waan4 zat6
stubborn illness; chronic disease
- 頑劣waan4 lyut3
stubborn and obstreperous
- 頑民waan4 man4
unruly people
- 兇頑hung1 waan4
fierce and uncontrollable
- 頑匪waan4 fei2
gangster
- 愚頑jyu4 waan4
ignorant and stubborn
- 頑鈍waan4 deon6
blunt (instrument)
- 頑固派waan4 gu3 paai3
the diehards
- 負隅頑抗fu6 jyu6 waan4 kong3
(idiom) to put up fierce resistance despite being surrounded; to stubbornly refuse to admit defeat
- 頑童waan4 tung4
urchin
- 老頑童lou5 waan4 tung4
old imp, kidult; an old person who behaves like a child
- 頑石點頭waan4 sek6 dim2 tau4
literally: 'even a piece of stone would have been moved', to be so patient and thorough in one's reasoning that all is convinced by it
- 冥頑不靈ming5 waan4 bat1 ling4
(idiom) pigheaded
- 頑抗waan4 kong3
resist with persistance
- 頑敵waan4 dik6
a stubborn enemy; a tough enemy; an inveterate foe
- 頑梗waan4 gang2
obstinate; stubborn; pig-headed
- 冥頑ming4 waan4
stupidly obstinate
- 死頑固sei2 waan4 gu3
very stubborn
- 老頑固lou5 waan4 gu3
(derog.) old-fashioned and stubborn person; stick in the mud
- 思想頑鈍si1 soeng2 waan4 deon6
blunt thinking