Chinese Word of the Day

拖鞋
tuō xié

slipper

Definitions

Chinese > English
拖鞋	tuōxié
1. n. slippers
English > Chinese
slipper
1. 拖鞋
Components
拖	tuō
1. to drag; to tow; to haul
拖車 - tow truck
強拖 - to forcefully drag
拖喼gip1 - to lug a suitcase
2. to mop
拖地 - to mop the floor
3. to droop; to dangle; to hang down; to sag
4. to hold hands
手拖手 - hand holding hand
5. to delay; to put off; to procrastinate; to adjourn; to defer; to prolong
拖時間 - to stall
6. to sustain (a sound)
7. to pin down; to tie up; to check (e.g. the enemy forces); to encumber
8. Short for 拖鞋, flip-flops; slippers
人字拖
9. (Cantonese, slang) fight
還拖
Tuo
鞋	xié
1. shoe; footwear
一雙鞋 - a pair of shoes
穿上你的鞋，我們出去吃晚飯。 - Put on your shoes. Let's go out for dinner.
在這裡我必須脫鞋嗎？ - Do I have to take off my shoes here?
2. Simplified form of 嚡
嚡	hái
1. (Cantonese) rough; coarse
2. (Cantonese) sigh (interjection)
嚡，太多嘢要做喇！ - Sigh, too many things to do!
3. (Wu) also
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