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The Chinese word for to wink is
使眼色

shǐ yǎn sè



to wink

Chinese Definition


wink
     1. 结婚仪式
     2. 婚礼
     3. 结婚纪念日
     4.
     5. 眨眼
     6. 眨眼睛
     7.
Components
使
     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
     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)
     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)



Translations for and their definitions

眨眼
     1. adv. in a blink
     2. v. to wink; to blink


眨眼睛
     1. v. to wink


     1. to blink; to wink
           佢 碰見 猛男,對 眼 會 猛咁 眨 - If she encounters a hunk, her eyes will bat non-stop
     2. (Hakka) to close one's eyes


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