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使眼色shǐ yǎn sè
wink
Definitions
Chinese > English | ||
使眼色 | shǐ yǎnsè | |
1. v. to tip somebody the wink; to wink at somebody; to give someone a meaningful glance | ||
English > Chinese | ||
wink | ||
1. 结婚仪式 | ||
2. 婚礼 | ||
3. 结婚纪念日 | ||
4. 见 | ||
5. 眨眼 | ||
6. 眨眼睛 | ||
7. 眨 | ||
Components | ||
使 | shǐ | |
1. to order (somebody to do something); to send (somebody) | ||
2. (literary) to put (people) to work | ||
3. to let; to make; to cause to | ||
這 突如其來 的 消息 使 他 大為wéi 震驚。 - This sudden news caused him great shock. | ||
4. to use; to employ | ||
呢 把 刀 幾 好 使sai2 - This knife is pretty good to use. | ||
5. to play; to play with; to resort to; to dally with | ||
使.心眼 - | ||
6. to indulge | ||
使.性子zi - to get angry; to lose one's temper | ||
7. (literary) if | ||
8. (Cantonese, always negated or interrogative) need to do something; have to | ||
你 唔使 攞lo2 咁 多! - You don't need to get so much! | ||
你 陣間 使 唔 使 落街 買 嘢 呀aa3? - Do you need to use head out to buy things later? | ||
仲 使 講 嘅ge2? - Surely it goes without saying. | ||
9. (Cantonese, always negated or interrogative) need something; require; want strongly | ||
10. (Quanzhou Min Nan, vulgar) to fuck | ||
11. to be sent as an envoy | ||
12. envoy; messenger | ||
來使 - envoy from another country | ||
眼 | yǎn | |
1. (anatomy) eye | ||
2. sight; vision | ||
瞪 了 他 一 眼 - to give him a stare | ||
一 眼 睇 嗮 - to be able to see everything in a glance | ||
3. eyelet; aperture; hole; opening | ||
4. tempo in the opera | ||
一板三眼 - one strong beat and three weak beats in the four-beat rhythm | ||
5. territory in game Go (board game). | ||
6. mesh | ||
7. key point; critical moment | ||
8. (Go) trap | ||
9. (Cantonese, mahjong) two identical tiles which are an essential part of a legal winning hand | ||
10. (Cantonese) | ||
色 | sè, shǎi, shè | |
1. color; tint; hue; shade | ||
顏色 - color | ||
顏色shǎi兒r - color | ||
紅色 - red | ||
四.色.定理 - four color theorem | ||
2. look; expression | ||
臉色 - facial expression | ||
3. scenery; circumstance | ||
景色 - scenery | ||
夜色 - night scenery | ||
4. kind; sort | ||
貨色 - goods; stuff; trash; rubbish; quality of goods; specification | ||
5. feminine charm; beauty | ||
姿色 - good looks (of women) | ||
6. lust; sexual desire | ||
好hào色 - to lust for women | ||
色情 - pornography; sexual desire | ||
7. (colloquial) perverted; being a pervert; lecherous | ||
8. theatrical role | ||
角jué色 - role; part | ||
9. metallic content | ||
成色 - purity (of a precious metal in an alloy) | ||
10. die (a cube with numbers or symbols on each side, used in games of chance) | ||
色shǎi子zi - die | ||
11. (Buddhism) (l-lite, pi, rūpa) (form; material element; form of existence; etc.) | ||
色 即 是 空,空 即 是 色。 - Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. | ||
12. (transgender slang) Short for 色普龍; cypro (cyproterone acetate) | ||
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shǐ yǎn sè
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