- a3bo2 [a-bo]: (adverb) otherwise, how about, why not
A3bo2 lu1 ai1 co1 ha1mik1? Otherwise what do you want to do?
- a1boay3RW [a-boe]: (adverb) not yet, before (alternative word au1boey3)
Ie1 a1boay3 lai2 gok3. He hasn't come yet.
- a1ci3RW [a-tsi]: (adjective) ready (get set for a game)
A1ci3 liau4 boay3? Are you ready?
- a3ci1lot1 [a-tsi-lot]: (noun) hide-and-seek game
Ie1lang2 thit1tho3 a3ci1lot1. They played hide-and-seek.
- a1la1mak1 [a-la-mak]: (interjection) expression of dismay (Malay loanword)
A1la1mak1, wah1-eh3 mi3knia3 phang1kni3 liau4. Oh dear, my things are missing.
- a3gak3RW [a-gak]: (verb) to guess (Malay loanword)
Wah4 boh3 a3gak3 kong4 ie1 tua3 wah4-eh3 ke1piak3. I never guessed that he stays next door.
- a3kai4RW [a-kai]: (noun) idea (from "akal", Malay loanword)
Wah1 uh3 cit3-leh3 a3kai4 boek1 ka3 lu1 kong4. I have an idea to share with you.
- a3ku3RW [a-ku]: (verb) to admit (Malay loanword)
- a3mor1koon4 [a-mɔ-kun]: (noun) neck
- a1nae1 [a-nɛ]: (adverb) as, so
- a1nae1 ... goay3RW [a-nɛ goe]: (adverb) so ...
- a3phien3 [a-phiɛn]: (noun) opium
- a3phien1 sien1 [a-phiɛn-siɛn]: (noun) opium addict (literally, "opium angel")
- a3sam3 ko1 [a-sam-ko]: (noun) asam jawa, tamarind (Tamarindus indica)
a3sam3 phoay3 [a-sam-phoe]: (noun) asam gelugor (Garcinia atroviridis)
- a3si3RW [a-si]: (conjunction) if, or
- act1si4 [ɛkt-si]: (adjective) show off (English loanword)
- ae3RW [ɛ]: (noun) instance, moment
To3long3 tan4 cit3 ae3. Please wait a moment.
- ae3RW [ɛ]: (adjective) next
- ae1kau4 [ɛ-kau]: (noun) mute, dumb
- ae3kha3chiu4 [ɛ-kha-tshiu]: (noun) assistant, subordinate
- ae3por1 [ɛ-pɔ]: (noun) evening
- ae3por3pan1 [ɛ-pɔ-pan]: (noun) afternoon/evening shift, afternoon session (school)
- aen3hoay4 [ɛn-hoe]: (noun) fireworks
Wah1lang2 khee1 Kuan3na1 Kark3 khnua1 aen3hoay4. We went to the Esplanade to view the fireworks.
- aen3snua3 [ɛn-suã]: (noun) barbed wire
Ie1 tau1 aen3snua3 ti1 li3pa1 mai1 hor3 chat1 jip1 lai2. He installed barbed sire to the fence to prevent burglars from entering.
- aen3tau2 [ɛn-tau]: (adjective) handsome
Ee1-eh3 si3tua3-eh3 hau3snaeh1 cin3cnia1 aen3tau2. Her eldest son is very handsome.
- ah3RW [ah]: (particle) interrogative particle used to reaffirm.
- Ah3 Ba2 [a-ba]: (noun) young man, addressing youths younger than yourself
- Ah3 Boy2 [a-boi]: (noun) lad, addressing boys up to teenage years
- Ah3 Chee4 [a-tsi]: (noun) sister, form of address for woman you are not familiar with
- Ah3 Cek3 [a-tsek]: (noun) uncle, form of address for men in their fifties and above.
- Ah3 Ee2 [a-i]: (noun) auntie, form of address for women in their fifties and above.
- ah3 knua1 [a-kuã]: (noun) transvestite
- Ah3 Ko1 [a-ko]: (noun) brother, form of address for man you are not familiar with
- Ah3 Kong1 [a-kɔŋ]: (noun) form of address for grandpa
- Ah3 Ma4 [a-ma]: (noun) form of address for grandma
- Ah3 Mak3RW [a-mak]: (noun) mom
- Ah3 Nya2 [a-ĩa]: (noun) miss, form of address for young women
- Ah3 Pa1 [a-pa]: (noun) Dad
- Ah3 Pek3 [a-pɛʔ]: (noun) uncle, form of address for men in their seventies and above.
- ah3 sam2 [a-sam]: (noun) elderly female servant. They are women who took a vow of chastity and opt to spend the rest of their lives working as domestic help (Cantonese loanword)
- ai3 [ai]: (verb) to want, to desire
- ai1bin3RW [ai-bin]: (adjective) vain, excessively proud of or concerned about one's own appearance
- ai1ceng2 [ai-tseŋ]: (noun) lover
- ai1ceng3 kor1su3 chaek3 [ai-tseŋ kɔ-su tshɛʔ]: (noun) romance novel
- ai1ceng3 phe1 [ai-tseŋ-phe]: (noun) love letter
- ai1chio3 [ai-tshio]: (adjective) amused
- ai1khoon3 [ai-khun]: (adjective) sleepy, drowsy
- Ai3tam3RW [ai-tam]: (noun) Air Itam
- aik3RW [ek]: (noun) benefit, profit, advantage (homophone of ek3)
- aik3RW [ek]: (adjective) beneficial, useful (homophone of ek3)
- aim4 [em]: (verb) to notice (from "aim", English loanword)
- ak1 [aʔ]: (noun) box
- ak3 [aʔ]: (noun) duck
- am1 [am]: (noun) temple
- am3 [am]: (adjective) dark
- am1chio3 [am-tshio]: (adjective) amused, to laugh inwardly
- am1kong3ciau4 [am-kɔŋ-tsiau]: (noun) owl
- am1meh2 [am-mɛ / a-mɛ]: (noun) night
- am1pai2 [am-pai]: (noun) detective (literally, "dark badge")
- am3thoon3 [am-thun]: (noun) quail (burung puyuh)
- am3po1cae2 [am-po-tsɛ]: (noun) cicada
- an2 [an]: (adjective) tight
- an3-an2 [an-an]: (adjective) tightly
- an1cnua4 [an-tsuã]: (adverb) how
- an1cnua1nyau3RW [an-tsuã-ĩau]: (adverb) how, by what means, by what method
- an3ting1 [an-tiŋ]: (noun) ear ring (Malay loanword)
- an3ui3RW [an-ui]: (verb) to console
- an3ui3ciong4 [an-ui-tsiɔŋ]: (noun) consolation prize
- ana3RW [aŋ]: (noun) stuffing, filling
- ana3RW [aŋ]: (verb) to lean forward, to look up/down
- ang1 [aŋ]: (noun) husband
- ang2 [aŋ]: (adjective) red
- ang3RW [aŋ]: (noun) storage vessel
- Ang4 [aŋ]: (surname) Ang
- ang3chai1thau2 [aŋ-tshai-thau]: (noun) carrot
- ang3co2 [aŋ-tso]: (noun) red snapper
- ang3hia3RW [aŋ-hia]: (noun) red ant
- ang3kong1 [aŋ-kɔŋ]: (noun) Taoist deity
- ang3kong3na4 [aŋ-kɔŋ-na]: (noun) toy
- ang3kong3na1 pneah4 [aŋ-kɔŋ-na-piã]: (noun) animal cookie
- ang3kong3tok3 [aŋ-kɔŋ-tok]: (noun) altar table for the Taoist deity
- ang1lang4 [aŋ-laŋ]: (adjective) rude, surly, cranky
- ang3mor2 [aŋ-mɔ / a-mɔ]: (noun) Westerner, literally "red hair"
- ang3mor3hoay1 [a-mɔ-hoe / aŋ-mɔ-hoe]: (noun) cement (literally, "Westerner's clay")
- ang3mor3lau2 [a-mɔ-lau]: (noun) Western-style bungalow (literally, "Westerner's building")
- ang3mor3tan1 [aŋ-mɔ-tan, a-mɔ-tan]: (noun) rambutan (Malay loanword)
- ang3 pau1 [aŋ-pau]: (noun) any packet that is red in colour
- ang3pow1 [aŋ-pau]: (noun) red packet containing money that is given on special occasions
Ee1 kaw3in2-eh3 si2 tharn3 cin3 ce3 ang3pow1. She got a lot of red packets on her wedding.
- ang3mor2 [aŋ-mɔ / a-mɔ]: (noun) Westerner, literally "red hair"
- ark3 [ak]: (verb) to water
To3long3 ark3 wah1-eh3 hua3cang3 hor3 wah4. Please water my flowering plants for me.
- at3RW [at]: (verb) to snap (compare with au4 and cik3)
- at3RW [at]: (verb) to extort
- au1 [au]: (noun) cup
- au2 [au]: (noun) kite
- au3RW [au]: (verb, adjective) to have gone bad
- au4 [au]: (verb) to bend
- au4 [au]: (verb) to vomit
- au1ban2 [au-ban]: (adjective) obstinate
- au3bo4 [au-bo]: (noun) stepmother
- au1boay3RW [au-boe]: (adverb) not yet (alternative word a1boey3)
- Au1ciu1 [au-tsiu]: (noun) Australia
- au3jit3RW [au-dzit]: (time/duration) the day after
- au3koay3RW [au-koe]: (adverb) in future, next time
- au1lau3RW [au-lau]: (noun) vomit and diarrhoea
- au3pa1 [au-pa]: (noun) stepfather
- au1ta4 [au-ta]: (adjective) unbelievable, absurd
- ba2 [ba]: (adjective) numb
- Ba3ba3RW [ba-ba]: (noun) Straits Chinese menfolk
- ba3cang1 [ba-tsaŋ]: (noun) horse mango (Mangifera foetida), (Malay loanword), (see also ma3cang1)
- ba3 iok1 [ba-ioʔ]: (noun) anaesthetic (literally, "numb medicine")
- ba3lai4 [ba-lai]: (noun) police station
Wah1 khee1 ba3lai4 po1 ma1ta2. I go to the police station to make a report to the police.
- Ba3 Le3pai4 [ba-lə-pai]: (noun) Bayan Lepas
- ba3li1tong3 [ba-li-toŋ]: (noun) horn shell (siput sedut, siput belitung, Cerithidea obtusa)
- ba3lu1 [ba-lu]: (adverb) just, recently (Malay loanword)
- ba3lu1 ... nia3RW [ba-lu-nia]: (adverb) only recently
- ba3tok1 [ba-tok]: (verb) to cough (Malay loanword)
- ba3tok3 iok1 [ba-tok-ioʔ]: (noun) cough medicine
- ba1tu2 [ba-tu]: (noun) stone
- Ba3tu1 Mau2 [ba-tu-mau]: (noun) Batu Maung
- ba3yam3 chye3 [ba-yam tshai]: (noun) spinach
- ba3yang1 [ba-iaŋ]: (noun) shadow (Malay loanword)
- bae4 [bɛ]: (noun) horse
- bae1 knia4 bɛ-kiã]: (noun) pony
- bag1 [bɛg]: bag (English loanword)
- bah3 [bah]: (verb) to bar, to prevent (from "bar", English derivative)
- bak3 [baʔ]: (noun) meat
- bak1le2 [baʔ-le]: (noun) meat conch
- bak1chang3 [baʔ-tsaŋ]: (noun) meat dumpling; (NB: chang3 is pronounced with the unaspirated /ts/ sound, the spelling is retained as it is in common usage)
- bak1choh3 [baʔ-tsho]: (noun) minced meat
- bak1iu3phok3 [baʔ-iu-phoʔ]: (noun) crispy pork lard
- bak1kut3 [baʔ-kut]: (noun) spare ribs
- bak1kut1teh2 [baʔ-kut-tɛ]: (noun) pork ribs herbal soup
Kin3meh2 wah1lang2 khee1 ciak3 bak1kut1teh2. Tonight we are going for Bak Kut Teh.
- bak1pau1 [baʔ-pau]: (noun) steamed bun with meat filling
- bak1phoay2 [baʔ-phoe]: (noun) pig skin
- bak1wan2 [baʔ-uan]: (noun) meat ball
- ban3RW [ban]: (adjective) slow
- ban3RW [ban]: (number) ten thousand
- ban4 [ban]: (verb) to pluck, to extract
- ban3-ban3RW [ban-ban]: (adverb) slowly, gradually
- ban3 khee3 [ban-khi]: (verb) to slow down
- Ban3 Li4 Tng3 Snia2 [ban-li-tŋ-siã]: (noun) Great Wall of China (literally, "Ten-Thousand-Mile Wall")
- ban3san1 [ban-san]: (noun) barn, market
- bang3RW [baŋ]: (noun) net
- bang3RW [baŋ]: (noun) dream, (verb) to dream
- bang4 [baŋ]: (noun) mosquito
- bang3cam3 [baŋ-tsam]: (noun) website (literally, "net station")
- Bang3ga1li4 [baŋ-ga-li]: (noun) North Indian
- Bang3 Kha3 Lan2 [baŋ-kha-lan]: (noun) Sungai Keluang
- bang1ku2 [baŋ-ku]: (noun) stool (Malay loanword)
- bang3kuang1 [baŋ-kuaŋ]: (noun) jicama/yam bean
- bang1ta3RW [baŋ-ta]: (noun) mosquito net
- bar1li4 [ba-li]: (noun) barley, (when ordering drinks) barley drink, also called ee1bi4
- bar1li1 peng1 [ba-li-peŋ]: (noun) iced barley drink (when ordering drinks)
- bark1 [bak]: (noun) ink
- bark3sat3 [bak-sat]: (noun) bed mite (hama katil)
- bas1 [bas]: (noun) bus (English loanword via Malay)
- bat3RW [bat]: (verb) to know something/someone, to be familiar with something/someone, to recognize
- bat3ciu1 [bak-tsiu / bat-tsiu]: (noun) eye
- bat3bai2 [bak-bai / bat-bai]: (noun) eyebrow
- bat3bai3 mor2 [bak-bai-mɔ / bat-bai-mɔ]: (noun) eyelash
- bat3chiam1 [bak-tsiam, bat-tsiam]: (noun) sty
- bat3iu2 [bak-iu, bat-iu]: (noun) tear
- bat1 ji3RW [bat-dzi]: (verb) to be literate, to know how to read and write (literally, "know words")
- bat3knia3 [bak-kiã, bat-kiã]: (noun) spectacles
- bat3sai4 [bak-sai, bat-sai]: (noun) eye-crust rheum
- be3RW [be]: (auxiliary verb) cannot, to not be able to do something
- be3 ha3rap3RW [be-ha-rap / be-ha-lap]: (adjective) unreliable
- be3 hau1 kor1 [be-hau-kɔ]: (adjective) shameless, brazen
- be3hiau4 [be-hiau]: (auxiliary verb) do not know how to do something
- be3hiau1 kien1siau3RW [be-hiau-kiɛn-siau]: (auxiliary verb) shameless
- be3hiau1kin4 [be-hiau-kin]: (phrase) nevermind
- be3ki3 [be-ki]: (verb) to forget
- be3khat3RW [be-khat]: (adjective) envious, intolerable
- be3la3can1 [bə-la-tsan]: (noun) shrimp paste solids used for cooking
- be3leh1keh4 [bə-lɛ-kɛ]: (adjective) mess (from "selekeh", Malay loanword)
- be3 shiok1 [be-ʃiɔk]: (adjective) annoyed, upset
- be3 song4 [be-sɔŋ]: (adjective) dissatisfied, feeling uncomfortable
- be3 ta1han3RW [be-ta-han]: (adjective) insufferable, intolerable, not endurable
- be3sai4 [be-sai]: (auxiliary verb) cannot
- be3sar3RW [bə-saʔ]: (adjective) overbearing, snobbish
- bee4 [bi]: (noun) uncooked rice
- bee1 chea3 [bi-tshe]: (noun) rice flour
- bee1hoon4 [bi-hun]: (noun) thin rice noodle (alternative spelling bi1hun4)
- Bee1 Kok3 [bi-kɔk]: (noun) United States of America
- bee1thai3bak1 [bi-thai-bak]: (noun) rice-flour short noodle
- beh2 [be]: (verb) to hypnotize
- beh3RW [be]: (verb) to sell
- beh4 [be]: (verb) to buy
- beh3 bak3-eh3 lang2 [be-baʔ-e-laŋ]: (noun) butcher
- beh1beh3 [be-bbe]: (verb) to trade
- beng2 [beŋ]: (adjective) clear, bright
- beng3pek1 [beŋ-pek]: to understand
- Beng3 Tiau2 [beŋ-tiau]: (noun) Ming Dynasty
- beng4 [beŋ]: (adjective) heroic
Heh1-leh1 peng1 cin3cnia1 beng4. The soldier is very heroic.
- beo3RW [bio]: (noun) temple
- ber3lian2 [bə-lian]: (noun) diamond
- bi3RW [bi]: (noun) smell
- bi1hun4 [bi-hun]: (noun) thin rice noodle (alternative spelling bee1hoon4)
- bi1ji2 [bi-ji]: (noun) seed (Malay loanword)
- bi3na3tang1 [bi-na-taŋ]: (noun) animal
- bi3sor3RW [bi-sɔ]: (noun) taste
- bin3RW [bin]: (noun) face
- bin3RW [bin]: (classifier) classifier for pages
- bin4 [bin]: (verb) to scrub, to brush
- bin3 ang3-ang2 [bin-aŋ-aŋ]: (verb, adjective) to blush, red faced
- bin3cherng2 [bin-tshəŋ]: (noun) bed
- bin3phoon2 [bin-phun]: (noun) basin
- bit3phang1 [bit-phaŋ]: (noun) honeybee
- bit3po2 [bit-po]: (noun) bat
- bit3thng2 [bit-thŋ]: (noun) honey
- bo2 [bo]: (verb) to disappear, to finish (homophone of boh2)
- bo3RW [bo]: (noun) hat
- bo2 khee3 [bo-khi]: (adjective) gone, disappeared
- bo1la4 [bɔ-la]: (noun) ball, derived from bola (Malay), (actual Hokkien word for ball is keu2)
- bo2 liau4 [bo-liau]: (adjective) finished
- bo3toi1 [bɔ-tɔi;]: (noun) bottle (from "botol", Malay loanword)
- boay3RW [boe]: (particle) interrogative particle used to reconfirm, in affirmative sentences.
- boay1yak1 [boe-iak]: (noun) butterfly
- boet1 [boet]: (noun) socks
- boek3 [boeʔ]: (auxiliary verb/normal verb) want, will
- boek1kau3 [boeʔ-kau]: (adverb) almost
- boey4 [boe]: (noun) tail
- boey4 [boe]: (classifier) classifier for fish and reptiles including snake, cuttlefish, squid, etc.
- Boey1 Orh2 [boe-ɔr]: (noun) Gertak Sanggul
- boh2 [bo]: (particle) interrogative particle, used to verify or confirm a statement. (homophone of bo2)
- boh3 [bo]: (adverb) to express the negative, not, no
- boh4 [bo]: (noun) female
- boh3 a3kai4 [bo-a-kai]: (adjective) mindless, idiotic
Heh1-leh1 boh3 a3kai4 eh3 lang2 pang3 ie1-eh3 chia1 ti1 lor3 teong1. The idiotic person left his car in the middle of the road.
- boh3 cheng3cha1 [bo-tseŋ-tsha]: (adjective) no different
- boh3 cio4 [bo-tsio]: (adjective) not few, a lot
- boh3 cnua4 [bo-tsuã]: (adjective) humble
- boh3 huat1tor3RW [bo-huat-tɔ]: (phrase) can't be helped, helpless
- boh3 ka3 lee1 loh2 (kokh3)[bo-ka-li-lo]: (adjective) not done yet (slang)
- boh3 ka1si3 [bo-ka-si]: (adjective) no manners
- boh3 kam3muan3 [bo-kam-muan]: (adjective) unwilling
- boh3 kho1leng2 [bo-kho-leŋ]: (adverb) unlikely
- boh3 kuan4 [bo-kuan]: (adverb) regardless
- boh3lang2 [bo-laŋ]: (pronoun) nobody
- boh3 lay1mau3 [bo-le-mau]: (adjective) ill-mannered
- boh3 leow4 [bo-liau]: (adjective) not finished
- boh3 liau3 [bo-liau]: (adjective) lame, lacking substance
- boh3lor3yong3 [bo-lɔ-jɔŋ]: (adjective) useless, good for nothing
Lu4 kau1giak3 boh3lor3yong3, a1nae1 kan1tan1 pun1 be3hiau1 co3. You are really useless, so easy also cannot do.
- boh3 lui1 [bo-lui]: (adjective) poor (literally, "no money")
- boh3 nya4 [bo-ĩa]: (adjective) untrue
- boh3 pan3huat3 [bo-pan-huat]: (phrase) can't be helped
- boh3 pien3huat3 [bo-piɛn]: (phrase) can't be helped
- boh3 pnua1lang2 [bo-puã-laŋ]: (pronoun) nobody
- boh3 pnua1hang3 [bo-puã-haŋ]: (noun, adjective, adverb) nothing
- boh3 song4 [bo-soŋ]: (adjective) not feeling well
- boh3 su3ka3 [bo-su-ka]: (verb) to dislike
- boh3 su3yau3 [bo-su-iau]: (adjective) not necessary
- boh3 ti3 [bo-ti]: (verb) to not be around, to not be home
- boh3 ting1tang3 [bo-tiŋ-taŋ]: (adjective) stationary, immobile, not moving
- boh3 thau3sin2 [bo-thau-sin]: (adjective) absent-minded
- boh3 tna4 [bo-tã]: (adjective) gutless
- boh3 tnia3 [bo-tiã]: (adjective) unstable
- boh3 tnia3 tiok1 [bo-tiã-tioʔ]: (adjective) uncertain, indefinite
- boh3 tua3 boh3 se3 [bo-tua-bo-se]: (phrase) impertinent (literally, "neither big nor small")
- boh3 yong3 [bo-iɔŋ]: (adjective) useless, futile, vain
- bok3keng3 [bɔk-keŋ]: (noun) pot
- bok3nee4 [bok-ni]: (noun) wood fungus, cloud ear fungus (Auricularia polytricha)
- bok3su1 [bɔ-su]: (noun) pastor
- bong1 [bɔŋ]: (verb) to feel, to grope
- bong3RW [bɔŋ]: (noun) grave, cemetery
- bong3 maek1 [bɔŋ-mɛk]: (verb) to feel the pulse
- bong3pai2 [bɔŋ-pai]: (noun) tombstone
- boon3hua3 [bun-hua]: (noun) culture
- boon3tay2 [bun-te]: (noun) problem
- boon3thark1 [bun-thak]: (noun) literary reading
- bor4 [bɔ]: (noun) wife
- bu3 [bu]: to spray with water
Ee1 bu3 chooi4 heh1-leh1 chye3 hor3 i1 khah1 chni1.
She sprayed water on the vegetables to keep them fresh. (literally, "for it to be fresher").
- bu4 [bu]: (verb) to move about, as in a dance
Wah1 ka1e3 boh3 eng2, kui3 jit1 ka3nia3 bu4. I am so busy, moving about the whole day.
- bu1lang3sai1 [bu-laŋ-sai]: (noun) lion dance
Ie1lang2 khee1 khnua3 bu1lang3sai1. They went to see a lion dance.
- bu3nga3 ceng3kih1 [bu-ŋa-tsəŋ-keh]: (noun) clove
- bu3nga3 kan3tan1 [bu-ŋa-kan-tan]: (noun) torch ginger flower (Etlingera elatior, Malay loanword)
- bu3nga3 te1lang4 [bu-ŋa-tə-laŋ]: (noun) butterfly pea flower (Clitoria ternatea)
- bua3ya4 [bua-ja]: (noun) crocodile (buaya, Malay loanword, subfamily Crocodyline)
- buah3RW [buah / bua]: (noun) fruit (Malay loanword)
- buah3 ke3lor1 [bua-kə-lɔr]: (noun) moringa, drumstick bean (Indian loanword via Malay)
- buah3 ke3rai1 [bua-kə-rai]: (noun) candlenut (Malay loanword)
- buah3 lam1lay1 [bua-lam-le]: (noun) rambai (Baccaurea motleyana, Malay loanword)
- buah3 lang3sat3 [bua-laŋ-sat]: (noun) langsat (Malay loanword)
- buak3 [buaʔ]: (verb) to apply (ointment, powder, etc.)
- buak1 iok1 [buaʔ-ioʔ]: (verb) to apply medicine
- Buan3ciu1 [buan-tsiu]: (noun) Manchuria
- Buan3ciu1 lang2 [buan-tsiu-laŋ]: (noun) Manchurian
- Buan3 lang2 [buan-tsiu-laŋ]: (noun) Manchu
- bui3RW [bui]: (verb) to bark
- bun3pang2si1po4 [bun-paŋ-si-po]: (noun) stationery
- ca3 [tsa]: (verb) to bomb
- ca4 [tsa]: (adjective) early
- ca3bor4 [tsa-bɔ]: (noun) girl, woman, female
- ca3bor1kan4 [tsa-bɔ-kan]: (verb) concubine, female slave
- ca3bor1 peng3iu4 [tsa-bɔ-peŋ-iu]: (noun) girlfriend
- ca3bor1 gin1na4 [tsabɔ-gin-na]: (noun) little girl
- ca3bor1 heng2 [tsabɔ heŋ]: (noun) transvestite
- ca3bor1 lang2 [tsabɔ laŋ]: (noun) wife, "missus"
- ca3bor1 soon3 ah4 [tsa-bɔ-sun-a]: (noun) brother's daughter; niece
- ca3cing4 [tsa-tsiŋ]: (noun) earth worm (Malay loanword)
- ca1khi4 [tsa-khi]: (noun) morning
- ca1khi1pan1 [tsa-khi-pan]: (noun) morning shift, morning session (school)
- ca1khi1 si2 [tsa-khi-si]: (phrase) in the morning
- cai1 [tsai]: (verb) to know
- cai1 [tsai]: (verb) to plant
- cai2 [tsai]: (noun) wealth, money
- cai3 [tsai]: (verb) to carry in a vehicle, to fetch
- cai3 [tsai]: (adjective) stable
- cai3chnae4 [tsai-tshɛ̃]: (noun) realisation, epiphany
- cai3chnae4 [tsai-tshɛ̃]: (verb) to realise
- cai3hu3 [tsai-hu]: (noun) clerk
- cak1 [tsaʔ]: (verb) to block
- cak3jit1 [tsaʔ-dzit]: (noun) sunshade
- cam1 [tsam]: to hover over something (as with flies)
- cam3 [tsam]: (verb) to chop, to chop off; (noun) station
- can3 [tsan]: (classifier) classifier for storeys of a building
- cang1 [tsaŋ]: (verb) to grab, to seize
- cang2 [tsaŋ]: (noun) tree
- cang2 [tsaŋ]: (classifier) classifier for plants and leafy vegetables.
- cang2 [tsaŋ]: (verb) to bathe
- cang3ek1 [tsaŋ-ek]: (verb) to take a bath, to bathe
- cang3ke1lit1 [tsaŋ-kə-lit]: (noun) cricket (insect)
- cap1 [tsap]: (number) ten
- cat1 [tsat]: (adjective) crowded, cram
- cat3 [tsat]: (noun) segment
- cau3 [tsau]: (noun) stove
- cau3 [tsau]: (verb) to return change
- cau4 [tsau]: (verb) to run
- cau3hnui1 [tsau-huĩ]: (noun) yesterday (compare with cna3hnui1)
- cau1kha1 [tsau-kha]: (noun) kitchen
- cau1 lor3 [tsau-lɔ]: (verb) to escape
- cau1wa4 [tsau-ua]: (noun) daughter
- ce3RW [tse]: (adverb) many, a lot (homophone of ceh3)
- ce3-ce3 [tse-tse]: (adverb) very much
- ce3bok1 [tse-bok]: (verb) to cleanse oneself after defecating
- ce3kork1 [tsə-kɔ; tsu-kɔ]: (noun) sand ginger
- ce3la3ka3RW [tsə-la-ka]: (interjection) drat! (Malay loanword)
- ceh1 [tse]: (pronoun) short for Cit1leh1, this
- ceh3RW [tse]: (verb) to sit, to ride (homophone of ce3)
- ceh3 be3 tiam3 [tse-be-tiam]: (adjective) restless
- ceh1 meh2 [tse-mɛ]: (noun) funeral wake
- ceh3 snua1 khnua1 hai4 [tse-suã-khuã-hai]: (phrase) auspicious hill perch with panoramic view of the sea, favoured location for cemeteries and temples (literally, "sit on a hill looking at the sea")
- cek3 [tsek]: (noun) father's younger brother; (adjective) indigestion
- cek1ak3 [tsek-ak]: (adjective) cruel
- cek1 kong1 [tsek-kɔŋ]: (noun) paternal grandfather's younger brother; grand uncle
- cem3pe1dak3 [tsəm-pə-dak]: (noun) cempedak (Malay loanword)
- ceng1 [tseŋ]: (verb) to punch, to pound
Ie1-eh3 bin3 ceng4 eng3goay3 ie1 tiok3 ceng1. His face is swollen because he was punched.Ceng1 sam3bai1 kau3ka1 iu3. Pound the sambal until it is fine.
- ceng1 [tseŋ]: (noun) bell
Wah1 hor3 wah1-eh3 niau1 cheng3 cit1-liap1 ceng1. I let my cat wear a bell.
- ceng2 [tseŋ]: (noun) gratitude
A3si3 ie1 uh3 ceng2, ie1 e3ki3 lan4 to3long2 ie1 goay3. If there's gratitude in him, he will remember we helped him before.
- ceng3 [tseŋ]: (verb) to plant
Ie1 ceng1 chye3 ti1 ie1-eh3 chu3-eh3 au3bin3. He plants vegetables behind his house.
- ceng3 [tseŋ]: (adjective) quiet
Cit1-leh1 ui3 cin3cnia1 ceng3. This place is very quiet.
- ceng4 [tseŋ]: (adjective) swollen
Wah1-eh3 kha1 ceng4 eng3goay3 hor3 ang3hia3 ka3. My leg is swollen because it was bitten by a red ant.
- ceng1chan2 [tseŋ-tshan]: (noun) to farm
- ceng1chan2-eh3 lang2 [tseŋ-tshan-e-laŋ]: (noun) farmer
- ceng1hu4 [tseŋ-hu]: (noun) government
- ceng1hu1 kang1 [tseŋ-hu-kaŋ]: (noun) government work, civil servant
- ceng3ku1thui1 [tseŋ-ku-thui]: (noun) pestle
- ceng3sin2 [tseŋ-sin]: (adjective) awake, alert
- ceng3tor2 [tseŋ-tɔ]: (noun) prospect, future
- cha1 [tsha]: (adjective) mediocre
- cha2 [tsha]: (noun) stick, wood (homophone of char2)
- cha4 [tsha]: (verb) to disturb (homophone of char4)
- cha3hu2 [tsha-hu]: (noun) tuna
- cha1luan3 [tsha-luan]: (verb) to disturb, to annoy
- cha3pu1to1 [tsha-pu-to]: (adverb) approximately, about to
Ie1 tua3 cha3pu1to1 cit3 ki3thiu1 ka1 wah4-eh3 chu3. He lives approximately one mile from my house.
Wah4 cha3pu1to1 boek1 khee1 khoon3 liau4. I'm about to go to bed already.
- cha1si1lang2 [tsha-si-laŋ]: (verb) to provoke, to annoy
- cha1siau2 [tsha-siau]: (verb) to irritate
- cha1siew1 [tsha-siu]: (noun) barbequed meat
- chaek3 [tshɛk]: (noun) book
- chai1 [tshai]: (verb) to guess
- chai1thau3koay4 [tshai-thau-koe]: (noun) radish cake, Simplified Chinese: 萝卜糕, Traditional Chinese: 蘿蔔糕, Cantonese: lo4 baak6 gou1, Mandarin pinyin: luóbo gāo
- cham1 [tsham]: (verb) to mix, to add, to combine
- cham4 [tsham]: (adjective) in trouble, terrible
- cham3-cham1 [tsham]: (adjective, adverb) mixed together
- cham3ka1 [tsham-ka]: (verb) to participate, to take part
- cham3kuan1 [tsham-kuan]: (verb) to to take a tour
Wah1lang2 cham3kuan1 cit3-leh3 chniau4. We made a tour of a factory.
- cham3siong2 [tsham-tsiɔŋ]: (verb) to negotiate, to discuss
- chan1 [tshan]: (verb) to lament, to moan
- chan2 [tshan]: (noun) paddy field
- chan2 [tshan]: (adjective) hagged, disheveled
Ie1 pien3 ka1e3 chan2 eng3goay3 ka3nia3 phua1pnaeh3. He became so hagged because constantly falling sick.
- chang3 [tsaŋ]: (noun) dumpling (NB: chang3 is pronounced with the unaspirated /ts/ sound, the spelling is retained as it is in common usage)
- chap3 [tshap]: (verb) to involve oneself in a matter
- chap1siau2 [tshap-siau]: (verb) to meddle, to interfere
- char2 [tsha]: (verb) to investigate, to check (homophone of cha2)
- char4 [tsha]: (verb) to stir-fry, to sauté (homophone of char4)
- char1 koay1 teow2 [tsha-koe-tiau]: (dish) fried flat rice noodles
- char1sio1 [tsha-siu]: (noun) barbecued meat
- char1sio3pau1 [tsha-sio-pau]: (noun) 叉燒包 bun with barbecued pork filling, Cantonese: caa1 siu1 baau1, Mandarin: Chāshāo bāo
- charng1 [tshaŋ]: (noun) spring onion
- charng3 [tshaŋ]: (adjective) bushy
- charng3mau2 [tshaŋ-mau]: (noun) lemon grass
- charng3thau2 [tshaŋ-thau]: (noun) onion
- charng3thau3knia4 [tshaŋ-thau-kiã]: (noun) shallot
- chat1 [tshat]: (noun) thief, burglar
- chat3 [tshat]: (noun) paint, (verb) to paint
- chau1 [tshau]: (verb) to copy
- chau4 [tshau]: (noun) grass
- chau1chiu4 [tshau-tshiu]: (noun) broom
- chau1hee3lang2 [tshau-hi-laŋ]: (adjective, noun) deaf
- chau1maek3 [tshau-mɛk]: (noun) grasshopper
- chau1por1 [tshau pɔ]: (noun) field
- chau1su1 [tshau-su]: (noun) grass-style cursive (a type of Chinese calligraphy style)
- chao3 [tshao]: (adjective) bad, evil, rotten, smelly
- chao1 bi3 [tshao-bi]: (adjective) smelly
- chao1 jio3phua3 [tshao-dzio-phua]: (adjective) smelling of urine
- chao1 kha3siau3 [tshao-kha-siau]: (adjective) playing dirty
- chao1 sniau3 [tshao-siãu]: (verb) to cheat
- chao1wa3 [tshao-ua]: (noun) expletives
- che3 [tshe]: (noun) flour
- che3 [tshe]: (noun) dated
- check1 [tsɛk]: (noun) cheque (English derivative)
- chee4 [tsi]: (noun) elder sister
- chee4 [tsi]: (noun) seed
- chee3 chee4 [tsi-tsi]: (noun) sister, form of address for elder sister
- chee1 hoo1 [tsi-hu]: (noun) husband's elder sister's husband
- cheeo3 [tshio]: (verb) to sing (homephone of chio3)
- cheet3 [tshit]: (noun) to wipe (homophone of chit3)
- chek1 [tshek]: (verb) to shake
- chek3 [tshek]: (noun) paddy
- chek1a1 ciau4 [tshek-a-tsiau]: (noun) sparrow
- cheng1 [tsheŋ]: (number) thousand; (adjective) clear
- cheng3RW [tsheŋ]: (noun) gun; (verb) to wear
- cheng4 [tsheŋ]: (verb) to brush
- Cheng3 Beng2 [tsheŋ-beŋ]: (noun) Qingming Festival, Ancestors Day, Tomb Sweeping Day
- Cheng3 Beng3 Hua1 [tsheŋ-beŋ-hua]: (noun) angsana (Pterocarpus indicus)
- cheng3cha1 [tsheŋ-tsha]: (adjective) dissimilar, unlike
- cheng1chee4 [tsheŋ-tsi]: (noun) bullet
- cheng1cho4 [tsheŋ-tsho]: (adjective) clear
- cheng3ji3 [tsheŋ-dzi]: (noun) four digits (gambling) (lit. "thousand number")
- cheng3khee3 [tsheŋ-khi]: (adjective) clean
- chi3RW [tshi]: (noun) (plants) thorn, (fish) bone; (homophone of chie3)
- chi1kek3 [tshi-kek]: (adjective) excited; (adjective) infuriating
- chia1 [tshia]: (noun) car
- chia1 [tshia]: (verb) to sew (using sewing machine)
- chia2 [tshia]: (adjective) sloping, slanting
- chia3cam3 [tshia-tsam]: (noun) bus stop
- chia3chiu4 [tshia-tshiu]: (noun) steering wheel
- chia3en1 [tshia-ɛn]: (noun) car exhaust
- chia3iu2 [tshia-iu]: (noun) petrol, gasoline
- chia3sna1 [tshia-sã]: (noun) sewing
- chiaet3 [tshiɛt]: (verb) to slice
- chiak3 [tshiak]: (adjective) caustic, curt, sharp-tongued, fierce
- chiam2 [tshiam]: (noun) orange
- chiam2 [tshiam]: (verb) to pierce
- chiam4 [tshiam]: (noun) prong
- chiam1ma4 [tshiam-ma]: (noun) fork
- chiang2 [tshiaŋ]: (verb) to rinse
Lu1 say4 ka1 sa1bun3 liau4 chiang2 ka1 chooi1. After you wash with soap, rinse with water.
- chiau2 [tshiau]: (verb) to shift, to move, to adjust
Ee1 chiau2 ee1-eh3 sing3ku1. She shifted her body.
- chie3RW [tshi]: (verb) to feed (homophone of chi3)
- chie3RW [tshi]: (verb) to rear (homophone of chi3)
- chie3 leow1 bee4 [tsiak-liau-bi]: (idiom) useless, good for nothing (literally, what a waste of rice feeding him)
Cit1-leh1 gin1na4, chie3 ie1 leow1 bee4 nia3! This child, feeding him is a waste of rice!
- chien4 [tshiɛ̃]: (adjective) shallow, light
- chien1 chnae1 [tshiɛ̃-tshɛ̃]: (adjective) light green
- chien1 lam2 [tshiɛ̃-lam]: (adjective) light blue
- chien1thua1 [tshiɛ̃-thua]: (noun) sandals, slippers
- chik1 [tshiʔ]: (noun) flower crab
- chim1 [tshim]: (adjective) deep
- chim3cnae4 [tshim-tsɛ̃]: (noun) air well
- chin1 [tshin]: (adjective) intimate
- chin3RW [tshin]: (verb) to weigh
- chin1chai4 [tshin-tshai]: (adjective) easy-going
- chin3cnia2 [tshin-tsiã]: (noun) relations, relationships, relatives
- chin3lang2 [tshin-laŋ]: (noun) people of the same surname, fellow clansmen
- ching3 kae1 [tshiŋ-kɛ]: (noun) sons'/daughters' father-in-law
- chio1 [tshio]: (adjective) flashy, brightly coloured
- chio3 [tshio]: (verb) to laugh (homophone of cheeo3)
- chiok3 [tshioʔ]: (noun) foot (unit of measurement)
Cit1-leh1 tok1teng4 see1 chiok1 tng2. This table is four feet long.
- chiok3 [tshioʔ]: (noun) ruler
Wah1 beh4 cit3-ki3 chiok3. I bought a ruler.
- chiu1 [tshiu]: (noun) beard
- chiu3RW [tshiu]: (noun) morpheme for tree
- chiu4 [tshiu]: (noun) hand
- chiu1cai4 [tshiu-tsai]: (noun) finger
- chiu3cang2 [tshiu-tsaŋ]: (noun) tree
- chiu3cang3 ki1 [tshiu-tsaŋ-ki]: (noun) branch
- chiu1chee4 [tshiu-tsi]: (noun) ring
- chiu1chiu1 [tshiu-tshiu]: (noun) moustache
- chiu3cu2 [tshiu-tsu]: (noun) tapioca
- chiu3cu3 kuih4 [tshiu-tsu-koe]: (noun) Nyonya tapioca cake
- chiu3hiok1 [tshiu-hioʔ]: (noun) leaf
- chiu3leng1 [tshiu-leŋ]: (noun) rubber, latex
- chiu1pio1 [tshiu-pio]: (noun) watch
- chiu1pit1 [tshiu-pit]: (noun) handwriting
- chiu1tien3 [tshiu-tiɛn]: (noun) torchlight
- chit3 [tshit]: (number) seven
- chnae1 [tshɛ̃]: (adjective) green
- chnae1 [tshɛ̃]: (noun) star
- chnae4 [tshɛ̃]: (verb) to wake up
- chnae3boey4 [tshɛ̃-boe]: (noun) shrimp scad/herring scad
- Chnae3 Chau1 Hang3 [tshɛ̃-tshau-haŋ]: (noun) Green Lane
- chnae3mae2 [tshɛ̃-mɛ]: (noun) blind person
- chnae3 mm4 [tshɛ̃-m]: (noun) son/daughter's mother-in-law
- chni1 [tshĩ]: (adjective) fresh
- chnia3RW [tshiã]: (verb) to employ, hire
- chnia4 [tshiã]: (verb) to invite, to treat
- chnia1mui3 [tshiã mui]: (phrase) excuse me
- chniau2 [tshiãu]: (noun) fence, wall
- chniau3RW [tshiãu]: (verb) sing; (noun) elephant
- chniau4 [tshiãu]: (noun) factory
- chniau4 [tshiãu]: (verb) to snatch
- chniau3ngek3[tshiãu-ŋɛk]: (noun) scorpion
- cho3 [tsho]: (adjective) error, (noun) mistake
- cho1wa3 [tsho-ua]: (noun) a slip or blunder
- choay1 [tshoe]: (verb) to blow (homephone of choe1)
- choay3RW [tshoe]: (verb) to find, to search, to look for
- choay3 ciak1 [tshoe-tsiak]: (verb phrase) to look for food, to earn a living (literally, "to look for something to eat")
- choay3 tharn3 [tsoe-than]: (verb) to recover, to find what was lost
- choe1 [tshoe]: to steam (homophone of choay1)
- choh3 [tsho]: (verb) to mince
- choh1bak3 [tsho-baʔ]: (noun) minced meat
- choi4 [tshoi]: (interjection) exclamation of negativity
- chok3 [tshok]: (verb) to utter (expletives)
- chok1 chao1wa3 [tshok-tshau-ua]: (phrase) to utter bad words, to utter expletives
- chok1 chor3wa3 [tshok-tshɔ-ua]: (phrase) to utter bad words, to utter expletives
- chong1ti3 [tshɔŋ-ti]: (verb) to tease
- choo1 [tsu]: (noun) pearl
- chooi4 [tsui]: (noun) water
- chooi1 ang2 [tsui-aŋ]: (adjective) pink
- chooi1co2 [tsui-tso]: (noun) rain gutter
- chooi1 gu2 [tsui-gu]: (noun) water buffalo
- chooi1 kay1 [tsui-ke]: (noun) edible frog (literally, "water chicken")
- chooi1kooi3 [tsui-kui]: (noun) water barrel, water tank
- chooi1kuan3 [tsui-kuan]: (noun) tumbler, pitcher, jug
- chooi1phoon2 [tsui-phun]: (noun) sink
- chooi1ti2 [tsui-ti]: (noun) water tank
- chooi1say1 [tsui-se]: (noun) water bill
- chooi1say1kuan1 [tsui-se-kuan]: (noun) water authority (Pihak Berkuasa Air Pulau Pinang, PBAPP)
- choon1 [tshun]: (noun) spring (homophone of chun1)
- choon3 pneah4 [tshun-piã]: (noun) deep-fried springroll
- choot3 [tshut]: (noun, classifier) episode (of TV show)
- chor1 [tshɔ]: (adjective) rough
- chor3 [tshɔ]: (noun) vinegar
- chor3chek3 [tshɔ-tshek]: (noun) cumin (jintan putih)
- chor3lor4 [tshɔ-lɔ]: (adjective) rough, unruly, coarse
- chor3wa3 [tshɔ-ua]: (noun) bad words, expletives
- chu1 [tshu]: (verb) to underlay
- chu2 [tshu]: (verb) to divide
- chu3 [tshu]: (noun) house
- chu3 [tshu]: (verb) to slip
- chu4 [tshu]: (noun) rodent
- chu1bi3 [tshu-bi]: (adjective) cute, adorable
- chu1cu4 [tshu-tsu]: (noun) landlord
- chu1hia2 [tshu-hia]: (noun) roof tiles
- chu2liau4 [tshu-liau]: (conjunction) except
- chu1soay2 [tshu-soe]: (noun) house rent
- chu1tor2 [tshu-tɔ]: (noun) building plan
- chua3RW [tshua]: (verb) to fetch, to lead, to take someone somewhere
- chua3 bor4 [tshua-bɔ]: (verb) to take a wife, to marry
- chuak3RW [tshuak]: (adjective) terrified, shocked
- chuak3RW [tshuak]: (verb) to pluck out, to uproot
- chuan4 [tshuan]: (adjective) tired, exhausted
- chuan1 khui3 [tshuan-khui]: (verb) to breathe
- chui3 [tshui]: (noun) mouth
- chui3 [tshui]: (noun) smashed, crushed
- chui1khee4 [tshui-khi / tshu-khi]: (noun) tooth
- chui1khee1bin4 [tshu-khi-bin / tshu-khi-bin]: (noun) toothbrush
- chui1khee1chiam4 [tshu-khi-tshiam / tshu-khi-tshiam]: (noun) toothpick
- chui1khee4-eh3 lo1kun1 [tshu-khi-e-lo-kun / tshu-khi-e-lo-kun]: (noun) dentist
- chui1khee1ko1 [tshu-khi-ko / tshu-khi-ko]: (noun) toothpaste
- chui1khee1pau1 [tshu-khi-pau / tshu-khi-pau]: (noun) inflamation of the gums
- chui1khee4 thnia3 [tshu khi thiã]: (noun) toothache
- chui3 phua3 [tshui-phua]: (noun) mouth ulcer
- chui1ta1 [tshui-ta]: (adjective) thirsty
- chui1tun2 [tshui-tun]: (noun) lips
- chun1 [tshun]: (noun) the leftover, the remainder (homophone of choon1)
- chut3 [tshut]: (verb, adverb) to go out, to get out
- chut1choo1 [tshut-tsu]: (noun) chicken pox
- chut1hien3 [tshut-hiɛn]: (verb) to appear
- chut1khi3 [tshut-khi]: (verb) to vent one's anger
- chut3 khee3 [tshut-khi]: (verb) to go out, to get out; (adverb) out
- chut3 lai2 [tshut-lai]: (verb) to come out
- chut1mia2 [tshut-mia]: (adjective) well-known, popular, famous
- chut1phiak1 [tshut-phiak]: (noun) measles
- chut1si3 [tshut-si]: (verb) to be born
- chut1 siau3 [tshut-siau]: (verb) to debit
- chye3 [tshai]: (noun) vegetables
- chye4 [tshai]: (noun) cloth hung over the door, usually red, during festive occasions
- chye1por4 [tshai-pɔ]: (noun) dried radish
- chye1sim1 [tshai-sim]: (noun) mustard green
- chye1tau3 [tshai-tau]: (noun) long beans
- chye1tna4 [tshai-tã]: (noun) Brussels sprouts
- ci3cak1 [tsi-tsak]: (noun) house lizard (Malay loanword)
- ci1chye3 [tsi-tshai]: (noun) edible seaweed
- ci3cui3 [tsi-tsui]: (adverb) who, whom, whoever (alternative form of cui3cui3)
- ci3ku1 [tsi-ku]: (noun) ciku (Manilkara zapota)
- ci1-leh1 [tsi-le]: (demonstrative adjective) this (alternative form of cit1-leh1)
- cia3 [tsia-lat]: (adjective) serious, terrible
- ciak1 [tsiak]: (verb) to eat
- ciak3 [tsiak]: (classifier) classifier for animals such as dogs, chickens, frogs, etc.
- ciak3 be3 liau4 [tsiak-be-liau]: (adjective) in excessive abundance (literally, "eat cannot finish")
- ciak3chor3 [tsiak-tshɔ]: (adjective) jealous
- ciak3 cho1 iok1 [tsiak-tho-ioʔ]: (idiom) crazy (literally, taken the wrong medicine)
- ciak3 chor3 [tsiak-tshɔ]: (adjective) jealous (literally, eat vinegar)
- ciak3 cni2 [tsiak-tsĩ]: (verb) to take bribe
- ciak3 cua2 [tsiak-tsua]: (verb) to take off from work, to shirk or neglect one's duty (literally "eat snake")
- ciak3jin3 [tsiak-dzin]: (verb) to admit
- ciak1 liau4 [tsiak-liau]: (verb) to have eaten already
- ciak3leow4 [tsiak-liau]: (verb) to finish eating
Wah1 ciak3 leow4 wah1-eh3 pnui3. I ate up my rice.
- ciak3 mm3 tiok3 iok1 [tsiak-m-tioʔ-ioʔ]: (idiom) crazy (literally, taken the wrong medicine)
- ciak3 pa4 [tsiak-pa]: (verb) to be full from eating
- ciak3 pa4 sniau3 eng2 [tsiak-pa-siãu-eŋ]: (verb) to idle
- ciak3pnui3 tok1teng4 [tsiak-puĩ-toʔ-teŋ]: (noun) dining table
- ciak3 thau3lor3 [tsiak-thau-lɔ]: (verb) to be employed
- ciak3 tok4 [tsiak-tok]: (verb) to have a feast
- ciam1 [tsiam]: (noun) needle
- ciam1 [tsiam]: (adjective) pointed
- ciam3chee4 [tsiam-tsi]: (noun) sewing machine
- ciam3chia1 [tsiam-tshia]: (noun) sewing machine
- ciam3kak3 [tsiam-kak]: (noun) sharp corner
- ciam1ma4 [tsiam-ma]: (noun) hair pin
- ciam3thak3 [tsiam-tha]: (noun) spire
- ciap3 [tsiap]: (noun) juice, sauce
- ciap3 [tsiap]: (verb) to receive, to connect, to add in
- ciap1siu3 [tsiap-siu]: (verb) to accept
- ciau1 [tsiau]: (adverb) despite of, still, nevertheless
- ciau2 [tsiau]: (adverb) evenly
- ciau4 [tsiau]: (noun) bird
- ciau1gae2 [tsiau-gɛ]: (adjective) clownish
- ciau1kong4 [tsiau-kɔŋ]: (adverb) actually
- ciau1 ... kong4 [tsiau-kɔŋ]: (conjunction) according to ...
- cien1 [tsiɛn]: (verb) to fry, to sauté
- cien3 [tsiɛn]: (adjective) hyperactive
- cien3 [tsiɛn]: (noun) battle
- cien1hom4 [tsiɛn-hɔm]: (noun) laksa leaf (Malay: daun kesom, scientific name: Persicaria odorata)
- cik1 [tsiʔ]: (noun) tongue
- cik1 [tsiʔ]: (verb) to break into two
- cik3 [tsiʔ]: (verb) to fold
- cim1 [tsim]: (verb) to kiss
- cim2 [tsim]: (noun) crab
- cim3 [tsim]: (verb) to dip
- cim4 [tsim]: (noun) father's brother's wife, aunt
- cim1thau2 [tsim-thau]: (noun) pillow
- cin1 [tsin]: (adjective) genuine
- cin3 [tsin]: (adverb) very
- cin3cnia1 [tsin-tsiã]: (adverb) very
- cing1kak3 [tsiŋ-kak]: (noun) fingernail
- cio3 [tsio]: (verb) to shine
- cio4 [tsio]: (adjective) few, less, small portion
- cio1 knia3 [tsio-kiã]: (verb) to x-ray
- ciok1 [tsiok]: (noun) granite
- ciok3 [tsiok]: (verb) to lend, to borrow; Ie1 ciok3 wah4 ie1-eh3 chaek3 - He lends me his book; Ie1 ciok3 wah1-eh3 chaek3 - He borrowed my book.
- ciok3thau2 [tsiok-thau]: (noun) stone
- ciong1hak3 kim1 [tsiɔŋ-hak-kim]: (noun) scholarship
- ciong3kun1 [tsiɔŋ-kun]: (noun) military general
- ciork1hock3 [tsiɔk-hɔk]: (noun) blessing
- cit1 [tsit]: (number) one (colloquial reading)
- cit-1 [tsit]: (demonstrative adjective) this, used with classifier
- cit3-ae3 [tsit-ɛ]: (adverb) once, a moment
- cit1-leh1 [tsit-le]: (demonstrative adjective) this (see also ci1-leh2)
- cit3-pang1 [tsit-paŋ]: (adverb) once
- cit1peng2 [tsit-peŋ]: (adverb) here, over here
- cit3si1keh3 [tsit-si-ke]: everywhere
- cit3 sim1 nor3 ie3 [tsit-sim-nɔ-i]: (adjective) undecided, hesitant
- cit3thau3 [tsit-thau]: (adverb) right away, immediately
- ciu1 [tsiu]: (noun) state
- ciu3 [tsiu]: (verb) to decay (tooth)
- ciu4 [tsiu]: (noun) wine, liquor
- ciu1 au1 [tsiu-au]: (noun) goblet
- ciu1lau2 [tsiu-au]: (noun) hotel
- ciu1 sien1 [tsiu-siɛn]: (noun) alcoholic (literally, "wine angel")
- cna3hnui1 [tsã-huĩ]: (noun) yesterday (compare with cau3hnui1)
- cna3meh2 [cã-mɛ]: (noun) last night
- cnae1 [tsɛ̂]: (verb) to argue, to prevent someone from getting something because you want it for yourself (e.g. inheritance, power, position)
- cnae3 [tsɛ̂]: (verb) to fight over, to argue over, to squabble over
- cnae4 [tsɛ̃]: (noun) well (bored hole for obtaining water)
- cnae1 jip1 lai2 [tsɛ̂-dzip-lai]: (verb) to budge in
- cnai3keng1 [tsãi-keŋ]: (noun) bathroom
- cni1 [tsĩ]: (verb) to stuff
- cni2 [tsĩ]: (verb) money
- cni3 [tsĩ]: (verb) to deep-fry
- cni4 [tsĩ]: (adjective) immature (as in plant shoots)
- cnia3 [tsiã]: (adjective) genuine, actual
- cnia4 [tsiã]: (adjective) bland; (when ordering drinks) less sugar
- cnia3bak3 [tsiã-baʔ]: (noun) lean meat
- cnia1chiu4 [tsiã-tshiu]: (preposition) right side, right hand
- cnia1chooi4 [tsiã-tsui]: (noun) freshwater
- cnia1 mia2 [tsiã-mia]: (noun) actual name
- cnia1hu2 [tsiã-hu]: (noun) mullet fish
- cniau3 [tsiãu]: (adjective) mischievous
- cniau3 [tsiãu]: (noun) sauce
- cnua1 [tsuã]: (verb) to boil water or oil
- cnuah3 [tsuã]: (verb) to shoot a jet of water (homophone of cnua3)
Kiu1hoay4-eh3 lang2 cnua3 chooi4 heh-leh1 tiok3 hoay1 sio1 eh3 chu3. The firemen shot a jet of water at the burning house.
- cnua3 kun1chooi4 [tsuã-kun-tsui]: (verb) to boil (homophone of cnuah3)
- cnua3 kun1chooi4 [tsuã-kun-tsui]: (verb) to boil water
- cnua3 iu2 [tsuã-iu]: (verb) to boil oil, usually part of oil refinement, to extract oil from seeds
- cnua4 [tsuã]: (adjective) boastful
- co3 [tso]: (verb) to do, to make
- co4 [tso]: (noun) date (fruit)
- co1 cit3-aeh3 [tso-tsit-ɛ]: (adverb) entirely, completely
- co3 ha1mik1 kui4 [tso-ha-mik-kui / tso-ha-mi-kui]: (phrase, slang) what's up?
- co1jit3 [tso-dzit]: (noun) day before yesterday
- co1 kang1 [tso-kaŋ]: (verb) to work
- co1 khuan4 [tso-khuan]: (verb) to make a scene
- co3klat1 [tsɔ-klat]: (adjective) brown, chocolate colour
- co1 lang2 [tso-laŋ]: (verb) to conduct oneself in a way that is expected, to behave properly
- co1 luan3 [tso-luan]: (verb) to make noise
- co3klat1 [tsɔ-klat]: (adjective) brown (Malay loanword from English)
- co1mik1su3 [tso-mik-su / tso-mi-su]: (question word) why
- co1 kang3chniau4-eh3 lang2 [tso-kaŋ-tshiãu-e-laŋ]: (noun) factory worker (literally, "one who does factory work")
- coe3 [tsoe]: (noun) sin
- cok1 [tsok]: (noun) 粥 congee, white sticky rice porridge
- cong2 [tsɔŋ]: (verb) to rush
- cong4 [tsɔŋ]: (noun) type, variety
- Cong1 Ceng1 Ong3 Tay3 [tsoŋ-tseŋ-ɔŋ-te]: (noun) Chongzhen Emperor (reign 1627-1644)
- cong1 [tsɔŋ]: (noun) gamemaster
- cong2 chut3 lai2 [tsɔŋ-tsut-lai]: (verb) to emerge suddenly, to rush out
- cong1phor3 [tsɔŋ-phɔ]: (noun) chef, cook
- cong1thau2 [tsɔŋ-thau]: (noun) headquarters
- cop1 [tsop]: (verb) to time out, as in a hand game
- cor4 [tsɔ]: (noun) great-grandparents
- cor3 ce3 [tsɔ-tse]: (adverb) how much/how many
- cor1kong1 [tsɔ-kɔŋ]: (noun) ancestors, forefathers
- cor3ku4 [tsɔ-ku]: (adverb) how long
- cor1mah4 [tsɔ-ma]: (noun) great-grandmother
- cu2 [tsu]: (noun) bulbous root
- cu4 [tsu]: (verb) to cook
- cu3bee4 [tsu-bi]: (noun) glutinous rice
- cu3bee1 chea3 [tsu-bi-tshe]: (noun) glutinous rice flour
- cu3bit1 [tsu-bit]: (verb) to pinch (Malay loanword)
- cu1 char4 [tsu-tsha]: (noun) cooked-to-order meal
- cu1ee3 [tsu-i]: (noun) to notice
- cu3rut1 [tsu-rut]: (noun) cheroot
- cu3sat3 [tsu-sat]: (verb) to commit suicide
- cua2 [tsua]: (noun) snake
- cua3 [tsua]: (noun) stripe, line
- cua4 [tsua]: (noun) paper
- cua1ak1 [tsua-aʔ]: (noun) paper box
- cua1ji3 [tsua-dzi]: (noun) currency notes, banknote
- cua1long2 [tsua-lɔŋ]: (noun) paper bag
- cua1lorkk [tsua-lɔk]: (noun) paper bag
Penang-eh3 supermarket boh3 hor3 cua1lork3. The supermarkets in Penang do not give away paper bags.
- cuan3 [tsuan]: (verb) to turn, to twist, to steer
- cuan3por3 [tsuan-pɔ]: (adverb) all
- cuan3tok1tnui4 [tsuan-tok-tuĩ]: (verb) to make a u-turn
- cui3cui3RW [tsui-tsui]: (adverb) who (occasionally ci3cui3)
- cui3cui3 lang2 [tsui-tsui-laŋ]: (adverb) who
- cui1kin3 [tsui-kin]: (adverb) recently
- cun2 [tsun]: (noun) ship, boat
- cun3RW [tsun]: (noun) period
- cun3RW [tsun]: (verb) to shiver
- cun4 [tsun]: (adjective) precise, accurate
- cun3liong3 [tsun-lioŋ]: (verb) to try one's best, to use up all capacity, to do one's utmost
- cun3long4 [tsun-lɔŋ]: (noun) shipyard
- cun1pi3 [tsun-pi]: (verb) to prepare
- cun3thau2 [tsun-thau]: (noun) pier, jetty
- dan3dan1 [dan-dan]: (adverb) right away
- du3ku1 [du-ku]: (noun) duku (Lansium domesticum)
- du3rian2 [du-liɛn / liu-liɛn]: (noun) durian (Malay loanword)
- e2 [e]: (noun) shoe
- e3RW [e]: (auxiliary verb) can, able to
- e3hiau4 [e-hiau]: (auxiliary verb) know how to do something
- e3ki3 [e-ki]: (verb) to remember
Ie1 e3ki3 ka1liau4. He remembers everything.
- e3sai4 [e-sai]: (auxiliary verb) can, may
- e3sai4 boh2? [e-sai-bo]: (phrase) "can or not?"
- ean1RW [ɛn]: (noun) swift
- ee1RW [i]: (pronoun) she, third person singular for females, female animals and items regarded in the female gender
- ee2 [i]: (noun) mother's sisters; aunts
- ee4 [i]: (verb) to play
- ee1lang2 [e-laŋ]: (pronoun) they (third person plural)
- ee3 poh2 [i-po]: (noun) maternal grandparents' sister as well as paternal grandmother's sisters; grand aunt
- ee3 tniau3 [i-tiãu]: (noun) mother's sisters' husbands; uncles
- ee3 tniau3 kong1 [i-tiãu-kɔŋ]: (noun) paternal grandmother's sisters' husband and maternal grandparents' sisters' husbands; grand uncles
- ee1bi4 [i-bi]: (noun) barley, also written as bar1li4
- eh2 [e]: (particle): Emphatic particle, used to emphasize or stress what is wanted or desired.
- -eh3RW [e]: (particle) possessive particle, used to form possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns.
- eh4 [e]: (adjective) short
- eh3kaek3 [e-kɛk]: (noun) shoe rack
- eh3te4 [e-te]: (preposition) below, under
- eh3te1peng2 [e-te-peŋ]: (noun) bottom part
- eh1ya4 [e-ja]: (adjective) short
Wah1-eh3 mah4 cin3cnia1 eh1ya4. My grandmother is very short.
- eh1ya1tork1 [e-ja-tɔk]: (noun) shorty
Lang3 kio3 ie1 eh1ya1tork1 eng3goay3 ie1 ba3lu1 gor3 chiok1 kuan2. People call him shorty because he is only five feet tall.
- ek1 [ek]: (adjective) narrow
- ek3 [ek]: (number) hundred million (homophone of aik3)
- en1 [ɛn]: (noun) smoke
- en2 [ɛn]: (noun) cordiality, get along well, (slang) to click, to have chemistry
- en3ci1 [ɛn-tsi]: lipstick
- en3hun3 [ɛn-hun]: destiny, fate
- en3kong4 [ɛn-kɔŋ]: exhaust pipe
- en3pan4 [ɛn-pan]: (noun) corrugated roof sheets
- en3pit3 [ɛn-pit]: (noun) pencil
- en3pit3ka4 [ɛn-pit-ka]: (noun) pencil sharpener
- en3pit3thuk3 [ɛn-pit-thuk]: (noun) eraser
- enee2 [ĩ]: (adjective) round (also written as enee2)
- eng1 [eŋ]: (noun) eagle
- eng2 [eŋ]: (adjective) easy, (unoccupied) free (antonym: boh3 eng2, busy)
- eng4 [eŋ]: (noun) wave
- eng3ai3 [eŋ-ai]: (noun) mumps
- eng1chye3 [eŋ-tshai]: (noun) water convolvulus, kangkong
- eng3goay3 [eŋ-goe]: (conjunction) because
- eng1hiong4 [eŋ-hiɔŋ]: (verb) to affect
- eng3kai1RW [eŋ-kai]: (auxiliary verb) should, ought to; (phrase) by right
- eng3ko1 [eŋ-ko]: (noun) parrot
- Eng3 Kok3 [eŋ-kɔk]: (noun) England, Britain, United Kingdom
- Eng3 Kok1 Lang2 [eŋ-kok-laŋ]: (noun) Englishman
- foo1kooi1 hua1 [fu-kui-hua]: (noun) adenium (Mandarin loanword)
- ga3loh3RW [ga-lo]: (verb) to quarrel (from "gaduh", Malay loanword)
- ga3ran1 [ga-ran]: (noun) certificate of ownership (Malay loanword)
- ga1rang4 [ga-raŋ]: (adjective) fierce (Malay loanword)
- ga3ring1 [ga-riŋ]: (adjective) crispy (Malay loanword)
- ga3tai4 [ga-tai]: (adjective) to itch (Malay loanword)
- gai3 [gai]: (adjective) serious (injury), (interjection) bummer, done for
- gaik1 [gek]: (noun) jade
- geh2 [gɛ]: (noun) tooth, molar
- gam4 [gam]: (verb) to paste
- gau2 [gau]: (adjective) clever
- gau3 thark3 chaek3 [gau-thak-tshɛk]: (verb, adjective) to be good in studies
- ge3lai1 [gə-lai]: (noun) glass (from "gelas", Malay loanword)
- ge3li4 [gə-li]: (verb) to tickle, (adjective) ticklish
- ge3ram1 [gə-ram]: (adjective) flustered, annoyed (Malay loanword)
- gee2 [gi]: (verb) suspect
- geng3geng4 [geŋ-geŋ]: (noun) longan
- geng3geng1 kua3bak3 [geŋ-geŋ]: (noun) dried longan
- ger3lang4 [gə-laŋ]: (noun) bracelet (Malay loanword)
- gia2 [gia]: (verb) to take, (also pronounced as ya2)
- gia2 chut3 lai1 [gia-tshut-lai]: (verb) to take out
- giet1 [giɛt]: (adjective) mischievous
- giam2 [giam]: (adjective) strict
- giam3 [giam]: (verb) to examine
- giam3tiong3 pang2 [giam-tiɔŋ-paŋ]: (noun) intensive care unit (ICU)
- gien3 [giɛn]: (verb, auxiliary verb) to desire, to crave
- gien1kiu3 [giɛn-kui]: (verb) to research, to analyse
- gim2 [gim]: (adjective) strict
- gim3 [gim]: (verb) to hold
- gim1cua2 [gim-tsua]: (noun) python
- gin2 [gin]: (noun) money
- gin3RW [gin]: (verb) to hate
- gin3hang2 [gin-haŋ / gin-thaŋ]: (noun) bank
- gin1na4 [gin-na]: (noun) children
- gin3sin2 [gin-sin]: (verb, adjective) to be upset, to become angry
- giu1 [giu]: (adverb) increasingly, more
- go2 [go]: (noun) goose
- go3 [go]: (verb) to be famish, to starve
- go1starn4 [go-starn]: (verb) to reverse
- go3down1 [go-daun]: (noun) warehouse (Malay loanword via English)
- goay1 [goe]: (time/duration) month, (noun) moon
- goay3 [goe]: (adverb) than
- goay3jit1 [goe-dzit]: (noun) month
- goay3lai3 [goe-lai]: post-natal confinement
- goay3lai3poh2 [goe-lai-po]: (noun) confinement matron
- goay3keng1 [goe-peŋ]: (noun) monthly cycle (of menstruation)
- goay3 pneah4 [goeʔ-piã]: (noun) mooncake
- gok3RW [gok]: (particle) Emphatic particle that corresponds to "some more", "another", and "else", (similar to kokh3)
- gok3RW [gok]: (adverb) yet, some more
- gong3RW [goŋ]: (adjective) stupid
- gor3 [gɔ]: (number) five
- gor3ki2 [gɔ-ki]: (noun) leech
- gor3pek1see3 [gɔ-pek-si]: (adjective) pervert, one who attempts to gain some advantage over women (literally five-eight-four)
- gu2 [gu]: (noun) cow, bull
- gu3 bak3 [gu-baʔ]: (noun) beef
- gu3kak3 [gu-kak]: (noun) water caltrop (Trapa natans)
- gu3la1ma4 [gu-la-ma]: (noun) croaker fish
- gu3lai4 [gu-lai]: (noun) curry (Malay loanword)
- gua4 [gua]: (pronoun) I (first person singular), alternative spelling for wah, refer to wah
- gua3bin3RW [gua-bin]: (adverb) outside
- gua3 ca3bor1 soon4 [gua-tsa-bɔ-sun]: (noun) maternal granddaughter
- gua3khau4 [gua-khau]: (preposition) outside
- gua3 kong1 [gua-kɔŋ]: (noun) maternal grandfather
- gua3 mah4 [gua-ma]: (noun) maternal grandmother
- gua3 seng1 [gua-seŋ]: (noun) sister's son; nephew
- gua3 seng3 lu4 [gua-seŋ-lu]: (noun) sister's daughter; niece
- gua3 soon4 [gua-sun]: (noun) maternal grandson
- guan3lai2 [guan-lai]: (adverb) actually, apparently
Guan3lai2 wah4-eh3 chiok3 ti1 cit1peng2. Apparently my ruler is here.
- gum1pak1 [gum-pak]: (verb) to bluff, to pull one's leg
Mm3thang3 gum1pak1 wah4. Don't pull my leg.
- ha1 hee3RW [ha-hi]: (verb) to yawn
- ha1kak1 [ha-kak]: (verb) to throw away, to discard
- ha1ku4 [ha-ku]: (adverb) last time, previously, long ago
- ha1-leh1 [ha-le]: (demonstrative adjective) that, those (similar to heh1-leh1 and hi1-leh1)
- ha1lo2 [ha-lo], also pronounced ha1lo3 [ha-lo]: (interjection) hello
- ha1mik1 [ha-mik / ha-mi]: (noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb) what
- ha1mik4kua1 [ha-mik-kua]: (noun) honeydew (see also mik4 kua1)
- ha1mik1su3RW [ha-mik-su]: (noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb) why, how come
- ha1mik1 wna1ko1 [ha-mik-uã-ko]: (phrase) whatever
- ha1peng2 [ha-peŋ]: (adverb) there, over there (similar to heh1peng2 and hi1peng2)
- haeh2 [hɛ]: (noun) prawn
- haeh3 [hɛ]: (verb) to place, to put
- haeh3bee4 [hɛ-bi]: (noun) dried shrimp
- haeh3kien4 [hɛ-kiɛn]: (noun) prawn fritter
- haeh3knia4 [hɛ-kiã]: (noun) shrimp
- haeh3kor1 [hɛ-kɔ]: (noun) mantis shrimp
- haeh3ku1 [hɛ-ku]: (noun) asthma
- haen3 [hɛn]: (adverb) right away, immediately
- haen3cni2 [hɛn-tsĩ]: (noun) cash
- haen3lui1 [hɛn-lui]: (noun) cash
- haen3-haen3 [hɛn-hɛn]: (adverb) clearly, obviously, right away
- hai1 [hai]: (adjective) huge, enormous
- hai3RW [hai]: (verb) to cause
- hai4 [hai]: (noun) sea
- hai1 bae4 [hai-bɛ]: (noun) seahorse
- hai1 ciau4 [hai-tsiau]: (noun) seagull
- hai1gu2 [hai-gu]: (noun) dugong, manatee
- hai3hai1 [hai-hai]: (adverb) enormously
Ie1-eh3 por1tor4 tua3 hai1-hai3. His belly is enormously big.
- hai1kao4 [hai-kau]: (noun) seal
- hai1kni2 [hai-kĩ]: (noun) beach
- hai1kun1 [hai-kun]: (noun) sailor
- hai1sorm1 [hai-sɔm]: (noun) sea cucumber (gamat)
- hai1thang3 hua1 [hai-thaŋ-hua]: (noun) begonia
- hai1theh3 [hai-theh]: (noun) jellyfish
- hai1ya2 [hai-ia]: (noun) sea coconut
- hai1ya3 [hai-ia]: (interjection) bummer (moaning, lamentating)
- harm1 [ham]: (noun) cockle (kerang, Cardiidae)
- ham3ban3RW [ham-ban]: (adjective) tarrying, doing things slowly, dragging one's feet
- ham3bin2 [ham-bin]: (noun) nightmare, (verb) to have a nightmare
- ham3sap1 [ham-sap]: (adjective) lewd, perverted (Cantonese loanword, literally "salty & moist")
- Han4gi3 Pheng3im1 [han-gi-pheŋ-im]: (noun) Hànyǔ Pīnyīn
- Han3 Kok3 [han-kɔk]: (noun) Korea
- hang1 [haŋ]: (verb) to heat over an open flame
- hang3 [haŋ]: (noun) burning sensation
- hap3ciok3 [hap-tsiok]: (verb) to unite
- hap3seng1 [hap-seŋ]: (noun) student
- hap3tang2 [hap-taŋ]: (noun) contract (agreement)
- har2kao1 [ha-kao]: (noun) 蝦餃 steamed dumpling with shrimp filling (Cantonese loanword), Cantonese: haa1gaau2, Mandarin pinyin: xiā jiǎo
- harng3ngah1 hu2 [haŋ-ŋa-hu / ha-ŋa-hu]: (noun) ray
- hau3 [hau]: (noun) horseshoe crab
- hau4 [hau]: (verb) to cry, to weep
- hau3lak1 [hau-lak]: (adjective) untrustworthy, unreliable
- hau1lam2 [hau-lam]: (noun) professional cryer
- hau1lam2 [hau-lam]: (adjective) weepy, easily moved to tears
- hau1lien4 [hau-liɛn]: (adjective) conceited, vain
- hau1pau1 [hau-pau]: (noun) crybaby, a person prone to crying
- hau3snaeh1 [hau-sɛ̃]: (noun) son
- hee1tai2 [hi-tai]: (noun) theatre, cinema
- hee3ya4 [hi-ia]: (noun) ear
- hee3ya1 khang1 [hi-ia-khaŋ]: (noun) ear canal
- hee3ya1 sai4 [hi-ya-sai]: (noun) ear wax
- heh-1 [he]: (demonstrative adjective) that, used with classifier
- heh1-leh1 [he-le]: (definite article) the, (demonstrative adjective) that, those (similar to ha1-leh1 and hi1-leh1)
- heh1peng2 [he-peŋ]: (adverb) there, over there (similar to ha1peng2 and hi1peng2)
- heng2 [heŋ]: (verb) to return (to revert to former owner)
- heng2 [heŋ]: (noun) style
- heng1chu3 [heŋ-tshu]: (noun) interest, inclination
- heng3chye3 [heŋ-tshai]: (noun) spinach
- heng3jin2 [heŋ-dzin]: (noun) almond
- heng3kham4 [heŋ-kham]: (noun) ribs
- heng3lui1 [heŋ-lui]: (verb) to refund
- heo2RW [hiɔ]: (particle) interrogative particle used to reconfirm, in both affirmative and negative sentences.
- hi3bang3RW [hi-baŋ]: (noun) hope, (verb) to hope, (adverb) hopefully
- hi1-leh1 [hi-le]: (demonstrative adjective) that (similar to heh1-leh1 and ha1-leh1)
- hi1peng2 [ha-peŋ]: (adverb) there, over there (similar to heh1peng2 and ha1peng2)
- hia3 [hia]: (noun) ant
- hiak1 [hiak]: (noun) forehead
- hiam1 [hiam]: (adjective) spicy
- Hiang3 Kang4 [hiaŋ-kaŋ]: (noun) Hong Kong
- hiau2 [hiau]: (adjective) lewd, wanton, indecent in manners and dressing
- hien3 [hiɛn]: (noun) odour, smell
- hien3tiok1 [hiɛn-tioʔ]: (verb) to see
- hiet3 [hiɛt]: (verb) to abandon, to leave
- him2 [hin]: (noun) bear
- hin2 [hin]: (adjective) dizzy
- hiok1 [hioʔ]: (noun) leaf
- hip3 [hip]: (verb) to photograph
- hip3 [hip]: (adjective) humid
- hiu3 [hiu]: (verb) to toss, to fling
- hiu3seck3 [hiu-sek]: (verb) to rest
- hna4 [hã]: (verb) to scare
- hnaek3 [hɛ̃k]: (verb) to stop (compare with theng2)
- hnia1 [hiã]: (noun) elder brother
- hnia3 [hiã]: (verb) to boil (water, soup, etc)
- hniau1 [hiãu]: (noun) joss
- hniau1 [hiãu]: (adjective) fragrant, aromatic (usually for edible stuff, compare with phang1)
- hniau3kor1 [hiãu-kɔ]: (noun) (Chinese) shiitake mushroom
- hnua3 [huã]: (verb) to drive (vehicle)
- hnua3 bas1-eh3 lang2 [huã-bas-e-laŋ]: (noun) bus driver (literally, "one who drives bus")
- hnua3 chia1-eh3 lang2 [huã-tshia-e-laŋ]: (noun) driver (literally, "one who drives car")
- hnua3hee4 [huã-hi]: (adjective) happy
- hnua3 tek1si4-eh3 lang2 [huã-tɛk-si-e-laŋ]: (noun) taxi driver (literally, "one who drives taxi")
- hnui2 [huĩ]: (noun) plantation, farm, estate
- hnui3 [huĩ]: (adjective) far
- ho2 [ho]: (noun) river
- ho3 [ho]: (noun) number
- ho4 [ho]: (adjective, adverb) good, well
- ho3bae4 [ho-bɛ]: (number) number
- ho3 bae4 [ho-bɛ]: (noun) hippopotamus
- ho1chio3 [ho-tshio]: (adjective) humourous, funny
- ho1ciak1 [ho-tsiak]: (adjective) tasty, delicious
- ho1giak1 [ho-giak]: (adjective) rich (literally, "well proportioned")
- ho1-ho4 [ho-ho]: (adverb) well, carefully, properly
- ho1liau3 [ho-liau]: (adjective) great, tasty, terrific
- ho1ka3cai3 [ho-ka-tsai]: (adverb) luckily, fortunately; synonym/abbreviation: ho1cai4 [ho-tsai]: (adjective) fortunately
- ho1 khuan4 [ho-khuan]: (adjective) good attitude
- ho1se3 [ho-se]: (adjective) terrific, succeeded
- ho1si3 [ho-si]: (adverb) well (health)
- ho1sim1 [ho-sim]: (adjective) kind
- ho1tharn3 [ho-than]: (adjective) profitable
- ho3thau2 [ho-thau]: (noun) number
- ho1tna4 [ho-tã]: (adjective) daring, audacious; (verb) to dare
- hoay1 [hoe]: (noun) cement, (construction) plaster
- hoay3 [hoe]: (noun) age, years old; (homophone of hoe3)
- hoay4 [hoe]: (noun) fire, light
- hoay1chia1 [hoe-tshia]: (noun) train
- hoay1chia3cam3 [hoe-tshia-tsam]: (noun) railway station
- hoay1chit1 [hoe-tshit]: (noun) match
- hoay1chit1ak1 [hoe-tshit-aʔ]: (noun) matchbox
- hoay1hu1 [hoe-hu]: (adjective) gray
- hoay1kay1 [hoe-ke]: (noun) turkey
- hoay3kuan3 [hoe-kuan]: (noun) association building, premises of the association
- hoay1sit1 [hoe-sit]: (noun) meal
- hock3 [hɔk]: (noun) blessing
- hock1khi3 [hɔk-khi]: (noun) luck
- hoe3 [hoe]: (noun) products, goods
- hoek3RW [hoeʔ]: (noun) blood
- hoek3 kae3 [hoek-kɛ]: (noun) low blood pressure
- hoek3 kuan2 [hoek-kuan]: (noun) high blood pressure
- hok1cap1 [hɔk-tsap]: (adjective) complicated
- Hok1kien3 [hɔk-kiɛn]: (noun) Hokkien
- Hok1kien1 Lang2 [hɔk-kiɛn-laŋ]: Hokkien people
- Hok1kien1 Seng4 [hɔk-kiɛn-seŋ]: (noun) Fujian Province
- hong1 [hoŋ]: (noun) wind
- hong3 [hoŋ]: (noun) phoenix
- hong3chiok3 [hɔŋ-tshiok]: (noun) square feet
- hong3hiam4 [hɔŋ-hiam]: (adverb) suddenly
- hong3khi3 [hɔŋ-khi]: (noun) air
- hong3kuak3 [hɔŋ-kuak]: (noun) jicama/yam bean
- hong3pien3 [hɔŋ-piɛn]: (adjective) convenient
- hong3sip3 [hɔŋ-sip]: (noun) rheumatism
- hong3sni3 [hɔŋ-sĩ]: (noun) fan
- hong3sniah1 [hɔŋ-siã]: (noun) rumour
- hooi3 [hui]: (noun) lung
- hoon1 [hun]: (noun) minutes, marks, points
- hoon1 [hun]: (noun) smoke
- hoon2 [hun]: (noun) cloud
- hoon4 [hun]: (noun) powder
- hoon3ceng1 [hun-tseŋ]: (noun) minute (duration)
- hoon3ki1 [hun-ki]: (noun) cigarette
- hoot1 [hut]: (noun) testicle
- Hoot1 [hut]: (noun) Buddha
- hoot3 [hut]: (verb) to wallop, to thrash
- hor3RW [hɔ]: (noun) rain
- hor3RW [hɔ]: (verb) to let, to give, to receive an action
- hor3RW [hɔ]: (preposition) for, (in passive voice) by
- hor3cai1 [hɔ-tsai]: (verb) to inform
- hor3cio1 [hɔ-tsio]: (noun) pepper
- hor3 fun2 [hɔ-fʌn]: (noun) piece rice noodle
- hor3lee2 [hɔ-li]: (noun) fox
- hor3sin2 [hɔ-sin]: (noun) housefly
- hor3tor2 [hɔ-tɔ]: (verb) to become muddle, (adjective) muddled
- hu2 [hu]: (noun) fish
- hu2 [hu]: (noun) talisman paper issued by spirit medium
- hu3chi3 [hu-tshi]: (noun) fish bone; sharksfin (soup)
Ie1 tiok3knae4 hu3chi3. He choked on fish bone.
Ie1 mai1 ciak3 hu3chi3 eng3goay3 ie1 mai1 co3 si4 snua3hu2. He doesn't want to eat sharksfin soup because he doesn't want to kill sharks.
- hu3nui3 [hu-nui]: (noun) roe, fish egg
Wah1 su3ka1 ciak3 hu3nui3. I like to eat fish egg.
- hu3phio3 [hu-phio]: (noun) fish maw
Cit1-leh1 thng1 haeh3 hu3phio3. One of the ingredients of this soup is fish maw.
- hu3ti2 [hu-ti]: (noun) aquarium
- hua1 [hua]: (noun) flower
- hua3ang2 [hua-aŋ]: (noun) bonus
- hua3cang2 [hua-tsaŋ]: (noun) flowering plant
- huak3 [huaʔ]: (verb) to yell, to bawl, to howl
- huan2 [huan]: (verb) to return, to refund
- huan3ak3 [huan-aʔ]: (noun) Muscovy Duck (Cairina moschata)
- huan3cio1 [huan-tsio]: (noun) chilli
- huan3cio3 knia4 [huan-tsio-kiã]: (noun) bird-eye chilli, cili padi
- huan3cu2 [huan-tsu]: (noun) sweet potato
- huan3cu3 hiok1 [huan-tsu-hioʔ]: (noun) sweet potato leaf
- huan3ging2 [huan-giŋ]: (verb) to welcome
- huan3hu3 [huan-hu]: (verb) to order, to command, to instruct, to remind
- huan3ki2 [huan-ki]: (verb) to pay installment
- huan3lo4 [huan-lo]: (verb) to worry
- heng3lui1 [heŋ-lui]: (verb) to refund
- Huan3na4 [huan-na]: (noun) Malay
- huan3suan1 [huan-suan]: (adjective) picky, particular about things
- huan1tui3 [huan-tui]: (verb) to object, to oppose
- huan1tui1tong4 [huan-tui-tɔŋ]: (noun) opposition party
- huat3 [huat]: (verb) (botany) to grow, to sprout, (baking) to rise, (colloquial) to become erect
- huat3 [huat]: (verb) to punish
- huat1cai2 [huat-tsai]: (verb) to gain prosperity
- huat1hien3 [huat-hiɛn]: (verb) to notice, to discover, to sight
- huat1hong2 [huat-hɔŋ]: (verb) to become inflamed
- Huat1 Kok3 [huat-kɔk]: (noun) France
- huat1hong2 [huat-hɔŋ]: (verb) to inflame, (noun) inflamation
- huat1 juak1 [huat-dzuak]: (verb) to have a fever, to have rising temperature
- huat1seng1 [huat-seŋ]: (verb) to happen
- huat1 sio1 [huat-sio]: (verb) to have a fever, to have a temperature
- huat1tat1 [huat-tat]: (verb) to become prosperous
- huat1tien4 [huat-tiɛn]: (verb) to develop
- hui2 [hui](noun) porcelain
- hui3hiam4 [hui-hiam]: (noun) danger, (adjective) dangerous
- hun1chiang2 [hun-tshiaŋ]: (noun) pig intestine
- hut3 [hut]: (verb) to box, to punch
- Hwa3 Gu4 [hua-gu]: (noun) Mandarin
- i1RW [i]: (pronoun) it (for inanimate objects and animals of undetermined gender)
- i1RW [i]: (verb) to treat, to heal
- i3seng1 [i-seŋ]: (noun) physician, doctor
- i3seng3kuan4 [i-seŋ-kuan]: hospital
- ie1RW [i]: (pronoun) he, third person singular for males, male animals and items of non-specific gender
- ie4 [i]: (noun) chair
- im1 [im]: (grammar) tone
- im1 [im]: (verb) to rise (tide)
- im3sniah1 [im-siã]: (grammar) intonation
- in3 [in]: (verb) to respond
- in4 [in]: (verb) to make a commitment
- In1ni2 [in-ni]: (noun) Indonesia
- In1tor3 [in-tɔ]: (noun) India
- io1 [io]: (noun) waist
- io3chee4 [io-tsi]: (noun) kidney
- iok1 [ioʔ]: (noun) medicine
- iok3chooi4 [ioʔ-tsui]: (noun) liquid medicine
- iok3hoon4 [ioʔ-hun]: (noun) powder medicine
- iok3wan2 [ioʔ-uan]: (noun) pill
- iork3 [iɔk]: (verb) to fix (a time)
- it3 [it]: (number) one (literary reading)
- iu2 [iu]: (verb) to swim
- iu2 [iu]: (verb) to travel
- iu2 [iu]: (noun) oil
- iu3 [iu]: (adjective) tiny, minute, fine
- iu3ciam1 [iu-tsiam]: (noun) fuel meter
- iu1 haeh2 [iu-hɛ]: (noun) shrimp
- iu1ti3pan1 [iu-ti-pan]: (noun) kindergarten
- iu3pam4 [iu-pam]: (noun) petrol station
- iu1siu3 [iu-siu]: (adjective) delicate, refined, genteel
- ja1gong3RW [dza-goŋ]: (noun) corn (from "jagung", Malay loanword)
- ja1li4 [dza-li]: (noun) finger (Malay loanword)
- jam1ban2 [dzam-ban]: (noun) toilet (Malay loanword)
- jam1bu3RW [dzam-bu]: (noun) Psidium guajava, guava, jambu batu; (noun) jambu air (Malay loanword)
- jang1goay1 [dzaŋ-goe]: (noun) cashew nut (from "janggus", Malay loanword)
- je3lak1 [dzə-lak]: (adjective) sated (Malay loanword)
- Je3lor3tong3RW [dzə-lɔ-tɔŋ]: (noun) Jelutong
- jee3RW [dzi]: (number) two;
- jee3 chee4 [dzi-tsi]: (noun) form of address for second eldest sister
- jee3 ko1 [dzi-ko]: (noun) form of address for second eldest brother
- ji3RW [dzi]: (noun) word, (alphabet) letter
- ji3lat1 [dzi-lat]: (verb) to lick (Malay loanword)
- ji3tien4 [dzi-tiɛn]: (noun) dictionary
- jiak3 [dziak]: (noun) stain
- jiang4 [dziaŋ]: (verb) to scream, to yell
- jiang4 chut3 lai4 [dziaŋ-tshut-lai]: (verb) to shout out, to yell out
- jin3 [dzin]: (verb) to admit, to acknowledge
- jio3RW [dzio]: (noun) urine
- jio3snui1 [dzio-suĩ]: (noun) gout
- jio3tor3 [dzio-tɔ]: (noun) bladder
- jior3 [dziɔ]: (adverb) how + (adjective)
- jior3ce3 [dzio-tse / dziɔ-tse]: (adverb) how many, how much
- jip1 [dzip]: (verb) to enter
- jip1 khee3 [dzip-khi]: (verb) to go in
- jip1 lai2 [dzip-lai]: (verb) to come in
- jip3 lui2 [dzip-lui]: (verb) to deposit money
- jip3 siau1 [dzip-siau]: (verb) to credit
- jip3 sim1 [dzip-sim]: (adjective) engrossed
- jit1 [dzit]: (time/duration) day; (noun) sun
- Jit3pun4 [dzit-pun]: (noun) Japan
- Jit3pun1na4 [dzit-pun-na]: (noun) Japanese
- jit1tau3RW [dzit-tau]: (noun) afternoon
- jit3thau2 [dzit-thau]: (noun) sun
- jit3thau3knui1 [dzit-thau-kuĩ]: (noun) sunshine
- Jit3pun4 [dzit-pun]: (noun) Japan
- jiu2 [dziu]: (verb) to wipe
- jiu3 hu2 [dziu-hu]: (noun) cuttlefish
- jiu3 hu3 char4 [dziu-hu-tsha]: (noun) Nyonya dish of fried cuttlefish floss with julienne vegetables
- jiu3hu3 si1 [dziu-hu-si]: (noun) cuttlefish floss
- joay2 [dzoe]: (verb) to rub
- jok1 [dzok]: (verb) to crumple (as of paper)
- jok3ga4 [dzɔk-ga]: (noun) mattress
- jok3ga1 kham3 [dzɔk-ga-kham]: (noun) bedsheet
- jok3ga1 por3 [dzɔk-ga-pɔ]: (noun) bedsheet
- jom3RW [dzom]: (verb) to reserve, to call dibs
- ju1 lai2 ju1 [dzu-lai-dzu]: (verb) to become increasingly
- juak1 [dzuaʔ]: (adjective) hot
- juak3chooi1kuan3 [dzuak-tsui-kuan]: (noun) flask
- ka1 [ka]: (verb) to cut (with scissors), to snip; (conjunction) with, until, (adverb) then, more
- ka3 [ka]: (preposition) to, with (homophone of kah3)
- ka3 [ka]: (verb) to bite (homophone of kah3)
- ka4 [ka]: (verb) to grind, to spin
- ka1bak3 [ka-baȦ]: (verb) grounded meat
- ka3cang3 bo3tol1 [ka-tsaŋ-bɔ-tɔl]: (noun) winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, vegetable)
- ka3cang3 ngin3liak1 [ka-tsaŋ-ŋin-liak]: (noun) lady's fingers, okra
- ka3ciak3 [ka-tsiak]: (noun) back (of torso)
- ka3cuak1 [ka-tsuak]: (noun) cockroach
- ka1e3 [ka-e]: (adverb) so
Wah4 ka1e3 yau1 goay3 liau4. I'm so hungry already.
- ka3ki3 [ka-ki]: (pronoun) own self, oneself, alone
Wah4 ka3ki3 khee1 khnua1 hee3. I went to see the show by myself.
- ka3lak3hu2 [ka-lak-hu]: (noun) goldbanded jobfish
- Ka1 Lang3 Pho1 [ka-laŋ-pho]: (noun) Kuala Lumpur
- ka3laut1 [ka-laut]: (verb) to drop
- ka3leng3 [ka-leŋ]: (noun) starling
- ka1 leow4 [ka-liau]: (phrase) until finish (homophone of ka1liau4)
- ka1liau4 [ka-liau]: (adjective, pronoun) all (homophone of ka1 leow4)
- ka1liau1 lang2 [ka-liau-laŋ]: (pronoun) everybody
- ka3lo4 [ka-lo]: (noun) food cover
- ka3nia3RW [ka-nia]: (adverb) only, just
- ka3ta3pu1lu4 [ka-ta-pu-lu]: (noun) frog (from "katak puru", Malay loanword)
- ka1wan1 [ka-uan]: (noun) friend (Malay loanword)
- ka3yu3 ma3neh1 [ka-yu-ma-ne]: (noun) cinnamon (Malay loanword)
- kae1 [kɛ]: (noun) family
- kae1 [kɛ]: (verb) to add
- kae1 [kɛ]: (adverb) more
- kae2 [kɛ]: (noun) burden (as in ya3 kae2, carry the burden)
- kae3 [kɛ]: (adjective) low (homophone of kaeh3)
- kae4 [kɛ]: (adjective) false, immitation, not genuine
- kae3au3 [kɛ-au]: (noun) wife
- kae3kiam4 [kɛ-kiam]: (adverb) approximately
- kae3lai3 [kɛ-lai]: (noun) within the family
- kae3leong3 haeh2 [kɛ-liɔŋ-hɛ]: (noun) lobster
- kae3lor3RW [kɛ-lɔ]: (noun) road
- kae3lor3 pni1 [kɛ-lɔ-pĩ]: (noun) roadside
- kae1si4 [kɛ-si]: (verb) to pretend
- kae3si1 [kɛ-si]: (noun) furniture
- kae3teng2 [kɛ-teŋ]: (noun) family
- kaeh3 [kɛ]: (noun) price, short for kaeh1cni2, (homophone of kae3)
- kaeh3cni2 [kɛ-tsĩ]: (noun) price (homophone of kae3)
- kah1 [ka]: (conjunction) and
- kah3 [ka]: (verb) to teach (homophone of ka3 and kar3)
- kai3-kai1 [kai-kai]: (verb) to go out (baby talk)
- kai1lan3 chye3 [kai-lan-tshai]: (noun) kailan
- kai1luak1 [kai-luak]: (noun) mustard
- kai1siau3 [kai-siau]: (verb) to recommend
- kak3 [kaʔ]: (verb) to blanket
Ie1 kak1 phoay3tnua1 eng3goay4 knua2. He covered himself with a blanket because he was feeling cold.
- kark3 [kak]: (noun) edge, corner
- kark1kua1 [kak-kua]: (noun) luffa/loofah
- kark1tau3RW [kak-tau]: (noun) lady's fingers, okra
- kam1 [kam]: (noun) mandarin orange, tangerine
- kam2 [kam]: (verb) to hold or retain in the mouth
Heh1-leh1 gin1na4 kam2 ang3mor3thng2 ti1 ie1-eh3 chui3. The little boy held the sweet in his mouth.
- kam1 [kam]: (adjective) orange (colour)
- kam3bong3 hu2 [kam-bɔŋ-hu]: (noun) short mackerel
- kam1ceng2 [kam-tseŋ]: (noun) relationship
- kam3chek3 [kam-tsek]: (noun) worms in the stomach (disease)
- kam3cia3 [kam-tsia]: (noun) sugarcane
- kam1kak3 [kam-kaʔ]: (verb) to feel
- kam3kim1 [kam-kim]: (verb) to be reticent (literally, to have gold in the mouth)
Ha1mik1su3 mai1 kong1wa3, kam3kim1 nia2? Why don't you talk, do you have gold in your mouth?
- kam3muan3 [kam-muan]: (adjective) satisfied
- kam1pong1 [kam-poŋ]: (noun) village (Malay loanword)
- kam1siah3 [kam-siah]: thank you
- kan1 [kan]: (adjective) devious, cunning
- kan3na4 [kan-na]: (noun) olive
- kan3nang3 cu2 [kan-naŋ-tsu]: (noun) potato
- kan3sin2 [kan-sin]: (adjective) very cunning, devilish, diabolical, hypocritic, sly
- kan1tan1 [kan-tan]: (adjective) simple
- kang1 [kaŋ]: (noun) work
- kang1 [kaŋ]: (noun) male
- kang4 [kaŋ]: (noun) river
- kang3chniau4 [kaŋ-tshiãu]: (noun) factory
- kang3gia3cu1 [kaŋ-gia-tsu]: (noun) scallop (kapis, kekapis, gapis, siput piring, Pectinidae)
- kang3hu3knia4 [kaŋ-hu-kiã]: (noun) anchovy
- kang3lang2 [kaŋ-laŋ]: (noun) employee, worker
- kao4 [kau]: (noun) dog (homophone of kau4)
- kao1ci2 [kao-tsi]: (noun) 燒賣 bite-sized dumplings topped with crab roe, Cantonese: siu1 maai6, Mandarin pinyin: shāomài
- kao1him2 [kau-him]: (noun) bear
- kap3 [kap]: (noun) pigeon
- kap3RW [kap]: (verb) to chatter, to bitch
- kap3siau2 [kap-siau]: (verb) to bitch
- kap1ster3RW [kap-stə]: (noun) bitchy person
- kar3 [ka]: (verb) to delegate
- kat1pah1 [kat-pah]: (noun) mussel (siput kepah, siput gayam, Asaphis)
- kau1 [kau]: (verb) to hang
- kau2 [kau]: (noun) monkey
- kau3 [kau]: (verb) to arrive, to reach
- kau3 [kau]: (adjective) think (for books, coffee), (homophone of kao3)
- kau3 [kau]: (adverb) enough (homephone of kao3)
- kau4 [kau]: (noun) nine
- kau4 [kau]: (number) nine
- kau1can1thak3 [kau-tsan-thak]: (noun) basil (literally, "nine-storey pagoda")
- kau2ci2 [kau-tsi]: (noun) shell-shaped dim sum
- kau3ie4 [kau-i]: (noun) chair
- kau3ee3 kha1 [kau-i-kha]: (noun) foot of the chair
- kau1giak1 [kau-giak]: (adjective) enough, (slang) too much
- kau3ka1 [kau-ka]: (conjunction/preposition) until
- kau3kang1 [kau-kaŋ]: (noun) tedious job
- kau3 liau4 [kau-liau]: (adverb) enough
- kau3tai3 [kau-tai]: (verb) to remind, to place in custody
- kau1terng2 [kau-təŋ]: (noun) church
- kau2tim2 [kau-tim]: (verb) to settle (Cantonese loanword)
- kau2tim3sai1 [kau-tim-sai]: (adjective) settled (Cantonese loanword)
- kau3wah4 [kau-ua]: (noun) drain
- kau3weng2 [kau-ueŋ]: (verb) alternative form for kaw3in2
- kaw3in2 [kau-in]: (verb) to marry (from "kahwin", Malay loanword), also kau3weng2
- kaw3in3 thiap3 [kau-in-thiap]: (noun) wedding invitation card
- kay1 [ke]: (noun) chicken; (noun) street (homophone of ke1)
- kay3kak3 [ke-kak]: (noun) rooster, cock
- kay3 kha1 [ke-kha]: (noun) chicken feet
- kay3po2 [ke-po]: (noun) busybody
- kay3po3cni1 [ke-po-tsĩ]: (noun) busybody
- kay3sai4 [ke-sai]: (noun) chicken manure
- kay3sai1hua1 [ke-sai-hua]: (noun) marigold
- ke1 [ke]: (noun) prostitute (homophone of kay1)
- Ke1ling3na4 [ke-liŋ-na]: (noun) South Indian
- Ke1ling3na1 Ban3san1 [ke-liŋ-na-ban-san]: (noun) Chowrasta Market
- Ke1ling3na1 hiok1 [ke-liŋ-na-hiok]: (noun) curry leaf
- ke1piak3 [ke-piaʔ]: next door
- ke1piak3 chu1 pni1 [ke-piaʔ-tshu-pĩ]: (noun) neighbouring
- ke3tiak1 [ke-tiak]: (noun) armpit (Malay loanword)
- keat3 [kiɛt]: (adjective) auspicious
- keat1hoon1 [kiɛt-hun]: (verb) to marry
- keat1la4 [kiɛt-la]: (noun) calamansi
- kek1khee3RW [kek-khi]: (adjective) infuriating
- kek1 sai4 [kek-sai]: (noun) constipation
- kek1sim1 [kek-sim]: (adjective) sad, depressed
- keng1 [keŋ]: (classifier) classifier for buildings
- keng1 [keŋ]: (noun) chant
- keng3 [keŋ]: (adjective) marvellous, fabulous
Cit1-leh1 mi3knia3 ka1e3 keng3 goay3. This thing is so marvellous.
- keng4 [keŋ]: (verb) to select, to choose
- keng3ce3 [keŋ-tse]: (noun) economy
- keng3ce3 [keŋ-tse]: (adjective) economical
- keng3giam3RW [keŋ-giam]: (noun) experience
- keng3li4 [keŋ-li]: (noun) manager
- keo2 [kio]: (noun) brinjal (homophone of kio2 bridge)
- keong4 [kiɔŋ]: (noun) palace, often used in names of Chinese temples
- Keong3 Hee4 [kiɔŋ-hi]: (noun) congratulations
- Keong3 Hee4 [kiɔŋ-hi]: (verb) to congratulate
- Keong3 Hee4 Huat1 Chye2 [kiɔŋ-hi-huat-tsai]: (noun) congratulations and be prosperous, a popular Chinese New Year greeting
- keow4 [kiau]: (noun) betting game (homophone of kiau4)
- keow1kui4 [kiau]: (noun) hardcore gambler
- kew2 [kiu]: (verb) to beg (homophone of kiu2)
- kha1 [kha]: (noun) leg, foot
- kha3chia1 [kha-tshia]: (noun) bicycle
- kha3chnui1 [kha-tshuĩ]: (noun) buttocks, backside
- kha3chnui3khang1 [kha-tshuĩ-khaŋ]: (noun) anus
- kha3 jiak3 [kha-dziak]: (noun) footprint
- kha3kiak1 [kha-kiak]: (noun) clogs
- kha3ku1 [kha-ku]: (noun) jail, prison
- kha3ku3keng1 [kha-ku-keŋ]: (noun) jail, prison, penitentiary
- kha3sau3RW [kha-sau]: (verb) to cough
- kha3ta3uh1 [kha-ta-u]: (noun) knee
- kha3tak3chia1 [kha-taʔ-tshia]: (noun) bicycle
- kha3 tay4 [kha-te]: (noun) sole
- kha1theng2 [kha-theŋ]: (adverb) afterwards
- kha3thui4 [kha-thui]: (noun) thigh
- kha1tien3 [kha-tiɛn]: (verb) to phone
- khai3su1 [khai-su]: (noun) regular script (a form of Chinese calligraphy style)
- khah1 [khah]: (adverb) more, more than (often used with goay3, for degrees of comparison)
- khah1ce3 [khah-tse]: (adverb) most of the, the majority of
- khah3nya2 [khah-iã]: (verb) to conquer
- khaek3 [khɛʔ]: (verb) to squash together
- khaek3 [khɛʔ]: (adjective) crowded, cram
- khai1 [khai]: (verb) to spend
- khaik3 [khek]: (noun) song
- khaik3 [khek]: (verb) to carve, to chisel
- kham1 [kham]: (verb) to close, to shut
- kham4 [kham]: (noun) dose, dosage
- kham1ceng1 [kham-ceŋ]: (noun) kamcheng, Nyonya pot with lit
- khan1 [khan]: (verb) to lead by the hand
- khan3hat1 [khan-hat]: (noun) enlarged lymph nodes
- khan3khor4 [khan-khɔ]: (adjective) difficult
- khang1 [khaŋ]: (noun) hole
- khang3khoay3RW [khaŋ-khoe]: (noun) work, job, duty
- khang3thau2 [khaŋ-thau]: (noun) business opportunity, deal
- kham3 [kham]: (verb) to cover
- khat3 [khau]: (verb) to scoop
- khat3 [khau]: (verb) to tolerate, to withstand
- khau1 [khau]: (verb) to scrape; (verb) to court
- khe1mak3 [khe-mak]: (noun) foster mother
- khe1pa3 [khe-pa]: (noun) foster father
- khee3 [khi]: (verb) to go
- khee1 ciak3 hong1 [khi-tsiak-hɔŋ]: (verb phrase) to go on holiday, to go on vacation
- khee1 form4 [khi-fɔm]: (adjective) enthusiastic (colloquial, English derivative)
- khek3 [khɛʔ]: (noun) guest
- khek1can3 [khɛʔ-tsan]: (noun) inn, guesthouse
- Khek1 Lang2 [khɛʔ-laŋ]: (noun) Hakka, Hakka people
- kheng1 [kheŋ]: (noun) frame
- kheng3 [kheŋ]: (noun) rainbow
- kheng4 [kheŋ]: (verb) to chat (slang)
- kheng3 hu2 [kheŋ-hu]: (noun) whale
- kheok3 [khioʔ]: (classifier) classifier for people (homophone of khiok3)
- khi4 [khi]: (verb) to go up, to wake up
- khi1bae4 [khi-bɛ]: (adverb) upwards of, from
- khi1giap3ka1 [khi-giap-ka]: (noun) entrepreneur
- khi1hiau2 [khi-hiau]: (verb) to become horny, to become randy
- khi1hong1 [khi-hɔŋ]: (verb) to become demented, to become crazy
- khi1hong2 [khi-hɔŋ]: (verb) to become angry, (adjective) angry
- khi1 seng1te3 [khi-seŋ-te]: (verb) to lose temper
- khi1tang2 [khi-taŋ]: (verb) to go into a trance
- khia3 [khia]: (verb) to stand
- khiam3 [khiam]: (verb) to owe
- khiam3 [khiam]: (adjective) frugal
- khiam1 siau3 [khiam-siau]: (noun) IOU, to be in debt
- khiap1si3 [khiap-si]: (adjective) disfigured, (see also mor3peng1)
- khien3 [khiɛn]: (classifier) classifier for people
- khim3siu3 [khim-siu]: (noun) animal
- khiok3 [khioʔ]: (verb) to collect, to pick up, to obtain (homophone of kheok3)
- khiok3tiok3 [khioʔ-tioʔ]: (verb) to carry on doing something
- khit1cia4 [khit-tsia]: (noun) beggar
- khiu2 [khiu]: (adjective) gnarled, wrinkled
- khiu3 [khiu]: (adjective) springy
- khiu4 [khiu]: (verb) to pull
- khiu3kin1 [khiu-kin]: (noun) muscle cramp, slurred pronunciation for thiu3kin1
- khnaeh1 [khɛ̃]: (noun) ravine
- khnaeh2 [khɛ̃]: (adjective) stuck, blocked
- khniau1 [khiãu]: (noun) accent, local twang
- khnua3 [khuã]: (verb) to look, to see
- khnua1 be3 khi4 [khuã-be-khi]: (verb) to look down upon
- khnua1sim1 [khuã-sim]: (adjective) anxious
- kho3RW [kho]: (verb) to depend on
- kho4 [kho], also kho1 chaek3 [kho-tsɛk]: (verb) to sit for exam; (noun) examination
- kho1leng2 [kho-leŋ]: (adverb) likely, (adjective) possible, (noun) possibility
- kho1lien2 [kho-liɛn / khɔ-liɛn]: (adjective) pitiful
- kho1lien3tai3 [kho-liɛn-tai / khɔ-liɛn-tai]: (adjective) very pitiful
- khok3 [khɔk]: (verb) to knock
- khok1thau2 [khɔk-thau]: (verb) to kowtow
- khooi1 [khui]: (verb) to open
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- khooi3hoay3 [khui-to]: (noun) meeting
Tau3ke1 tha1na1 khooi3hoay3. The boss is at a meeting.
- khooi3 to1 [khui-to]: (verb) to operate (surgery)
- khong1 [khɔŋ]: (verb) to braise
- khong3 [khɔŋ]: (number) zero
- khong3kham4 [khoŋ-kham]: (adjective) crazy
- khong3long2 [khoŋ-loŋ]: (noun) dinosaur
- khoon3 [khun]: (verb) to sleep
- khoon1 sna1 [khun-sã]: (noun) pajamas
- khor1 [khɔ]: (noun) hoop
- khor1 [khɔ]: (money) ringgit
- khor3 [khɔ]: (noun) pants, trousers
- khor4 [khɔ]: (adjective) bitter, sorrow, hardship
- khor1kua1 [khɔ-kua]: (noun) bitter gourd
- khor3kut1 [khɔ-kut]: (adjective) anti-social, loner
- khor1teh2 [khɔ-tɛ]: (noun) bitter medicated tea
- khor1tua3 [khɔ-tua]: (noun) belt
- khu4 [khu]: (noun) segment
- khu3kha3 lau2 [khu-kha-lau]: (noun) house on stilts or raised from the ground
- khuah3 [khuaʔ]: (adjective) wide
- khuai3 [khuai]: (adjective) quick
- khuai1-khuai3 [khuai-khuai]: (adverb) quickly
- khuan4 [khuan]: (adjective) behaviour, attitude, attics
- khui3 [khui]: (noun) breath
- khut3 [khut]: (noun) cavity, depression
- ki1 [ki]: (classifier) classifier for long objects that are stiff such as stick, branch, pole, post, column, etc.
- ki1 [ki]: (noun) morpheme for branch
- ki2 [ki]: (noun) flag
- ki3 [ki]: (noun) mole (congenital spot or blemish on the skin)
- ki3 [ki]: (verb) to memorize
Ie1 ki3 ka1liau4. He memorized everything.
- ki1cia4 [ki-tsia]: (noun) reporter
- ki3chee4 [ki-tsi]: (noun) Chinese wolfberries, goji
- ki3hoay3 [ki-hoe]: (noun) opportunity
- ki3kuai3RW [ki-kuai / ku-kuai]: (adjective) strange, odd
- ki3si2 [ki-si]: (adverb) when
- ki1sien3RW [ki-siɛn]: (adjective) pitiful
- ki1ti2 [ki-ti]: (noun) memory
- ki3to4 [ki-to]: (verb) to pray
- ki3tong2 [ki-tɔ]: (noun) spirit medium
- kia3 [kia]: (verb) to send
- kiat3 [kiɛt]: (verb) to form, to solidify
- kiat1chee4 [kiɛt-tsi]: (verb) to form seeds
- kiam2 [kiam]: (adjective) salty
- kiam3 [kiam]: (noun) sword
- kiam4 [kiam]: (verb) to reduce, to subtract, to lack
- kiam4 [kiam]: (adjective) less
- kiam3chye3 [kiam-tshai]: (noun) salted vegetable
- kiam3hu2 [kiam-hu]: (noun) salted fish
- kiam1 keh3 [kiam-kɛ]: (verb) to discount, to reduce price
- kiam1-kiam4 [kiam-kiam]: (adverb) nearly
- kiam1 liau3 [kiam-liau]: (adjective) less sugar (when ordering drinks)
- kiau4 [kiau]: (verb) to stir (homophone of keow4)
- kien1 [kiɛn]: (verb) to form crust
- kien2 [kiɛn]: (verb) to die (colloquial)
- kien3 [kiɛn]: (noun) gizzard
- kien4 [kiɛn]: (noun) fritter
- kien3 phi4 [kiɛn-phi]: (verb) to form crust
- kien1siau3 [kiɛn-siau]: (adjective) shameful
- kim1 [kim]: (noun) gold
- kim3 [kim]: (noun) mother's brothers' wives, wife's brother's wives; aunts, sisters-in-law
- kim3ciam1 [kim-tsiam]: (noun) dried lily buds
- kim3ciam3 kor1 [kim-tsiam-kɛ]: (noun) enoki mushroom
- kim3hong3 hua1 [kim-hɔŋ-hua]: (noun) balsom (Impatiens)
- kim3hu2 [kim-hu]: (noun) goldfish
- kim3khi3 [kim-khi]: (noun) jewellery
- kim3kua1 [kim-kua]: (noun) pumpkin
- kim3 poh2 [kim-po]: (noun) grandparents' brother's wife; grand aunt
- kin1 [kin]: (noun) root
- kin1 [kin]: (noun) muscle
- kin3 [kin]: (adjective) near
- kin4 [kin]: (adjective) fast
- kin3chye3 [kin-tshai]: (noun) cilantro, Chinese parsley
- kin3cio1 [kin-tsio]: (noun) banana
- kin1ciong1 [kin-tsiɔŋ: (adjective) nervous, anxious, apprehensive, excited, tense
- kin3jit1 [kin-dzit]: (noun) today
- kin3thau2 [kin-thau]: (noun) shoulder
- kio1 [kio]: (noun) bridge (homonym with keo2, brinjal)
- kiok1 hua1 [kiok-hua]: (noun) chrysanthemum
- kip3 [kip]: (noun) chapter, primary school standard
- kit1 [kit]: (adjectve) thick (sauce)
- kio3 [kio]: (verb) to call
- kiu1 [kiu]: (verb) to shrink, to contract
- kiu2 [kiu]: (noun) ball (homophone of kew2)
- kiu3 [kiu]: (verb) to rescue, to save
- kiu1hoay4 [kiu-hoe]: (verb) to rescue from fire
- kiu1long3 chia1 [kiu-lɔŋ-tshia]: (noun) fire engine
- kiu1long3 keng1 [kiu-lɔŋ-keŋ]: (noun) fire station
- kiu1mia3 [kiu-mia]: (verb) to save life, S.O.S.
- kna4 [kã]: (auxiliary verb) dare
- kna1si4 [kã-si]: (adjective) audacious
- kng1ciang2 [kŋ-tsiaŋ]: (noun) mall, plaza
- Kng1tang1 [kŋ-taŋ]: (noun) Guangzhou (Canton), Cantonese language
- Kng1tang3 Lang2 [kŋ-taŋ
-laŋ]: (noun) Cantonese people
- kni1 [kĩ]: (adjective) alkaline
- kni2 [kĩ]: (noun) edge
- kni4 [kĩ]: (verb) to point
- knia1 [kiã]: (adjective) afraid, frightened, scared
- knia2 [kiã]: (verb) to walk
- knia3 [kiã]: (noun) mirror
- knia4 [kiã]: (noun) child, offspring
- knia3 kang1 [kiã-kaŋ]: (verb) to start work
- knia3lang2 [kiã-laŋ]: (adjective) frightening
- knia3 lor3 [kiã-lɔ]: (verb) to walk
- knia1 sai3 [kiã-sai]: (noun) son-in-law; (noun) bridegroom
- knia1soon1 [kiã-sun]: (noun) descendant
- kniau1 [kiãu]: (noun) ginger
- knua1 [kuã]: (noun) liver (homophone of knuah1)
- knua2 [kuã]: (verb) to feel cold
- knua3 [kuã]: (noun) sweat, perspiration
- knua4 [kuã]: (verb) to herd, to drive, to hurry
- knuah1 [kuã]: (noun) judge (homophone of knua1)
- knuai1 [kuãi]: (noun) county
- knuai1 [kuãi]: (verb) to imprison
- knui1 [kuĩ]: (adjective) bright
Thni1 knui1 liau4. The sky is bright already.
- knui4 [kuĩ]: (verb) to wrap around, to wind
Knui4 heh1-leh1 snua3 ti1 cit1peng2. Wind the string around here.
- ko1 [ko]: (adverb) still, yet
- ko1 [ko]: (noun) elder brother
- ko1 [ko]: (classifier) classifier for month
- ko2 [ko]: (verb) to stir batter, to stir while cooking over a low flame
- ko3 [ko]: (verb) to sue
- Ko3 Ean1 [ko-ɛn]: (noun) Nibong Tebal
- ko1ko4 [ko-ko]: (adjective) brown
- ko3 ko1 [ko-ko]: (noun) for addressing elder brother
- ko3lay3chye3 [ko-le-tshai]: (noun) cabbage
- ko3lay3chye1hua1 [ko-le-tshai-hua]: (noun) cauliflower
- ko1mik4 [kɔ-mik]: (noun) comic book (English derivative)
- ko3pi1 [ko-pi]: (noun) hot coffee (with milk)
- ko3pi1 cnia4 [ko-pi-tsiã]: (noun) hot coffee, with milk, less sugar
- ko3pi1 mai1 liau3 [ko-pi-mai-liau]: (noun) hot coffee, with milk, no sugar
- ko3pi3 or1 [ko-pi-ɔ]: (noun) hot coffee black, without milk
- ko3pi1 or1 cnia4 [ko-pi-ɔ-tsiã]: (noun) hot coffee, without milk, less sugar
- ko3pi1 or1 mai1 liau3 [ko-pi-ɔ-mai-liau]: (noun) hot coffee, without milk and no sugar
- ko3pi3 or3 peng1 [ko-pi-ɔ-peŋ]: (noun) iced coffee black (without milk)
- ko3pi3 peng1 [ko-pi-peŋ]: (noun) iced coffee (with milk)
- ko3pi3 si1 [ko-pi-si]: (noun) hot coffee with less milk
- ko3pi3 si1 peng1 [ko-pi-si-peŋ]: (noun) iced coffee with less milk
- ko3pi3 tiam3 [ko-pi-tiam]: (noun) coffee shop
- koay3 [koe]: (verb) to pass, to pass by
- koay4 [koe]: (verb) to prop, to stabilize
- koay1 au3 [koe-au]: (adverb) after that
- koay1ci4 [koe-tsi]: (noun) fruit
- koay1ci1ba2 [koe-tsi-ba]: (noun) fruit bat
- koay1ci1ciap3 [koe-tsi-tsiap]: (noun) fruit juice
- Koay1 Kang4 [koe-kaŋ]: (noun) Butterworth
- koay1kau2 [koe-kau]: (noun) grouper
- koay1kuan1 [koe-kuan]: (verb) manage to get through safely (tests, examinations, etc.)
- koay1sin1 [koe-sin]: (verb) to pass away
- Koay1 Snua1 [koe-suã]: (noun) Sungai Tiram
- koay1 teow2 [koe-tiau]: (noun) flat rice noodle
- kok3 [kɔk]: (noun) country
- kok1ka1 [kɔk-ka]: (noun) country
- kokh1 [koʔ]: (adverb) another, again
- kokh3 [koʔ]: (particle) particle that corresponds to "yet", "yet another", "some more" and "else", similar to gok3.
- kokh1cai1 [koʔ-tsai]: (adverb) again
- kokh1 kah1 ce3 [kok-ka-tse]: (adverb) some more, even more
- kong1 [kɔŋ]: (noun) grandfather, (verb) to pay by installment
- kong2 [kɔŋ]: (adverb) in a hurry
- kong3RW [kɔŋ]: (noun) to knock, hit
- kong4 [kɔŋ]: (verb) to say
- kong4 [kɔŋ]: (noun) tin can
- kong4 [kɔŋ]: (subordinating conjunction) that
- kong1 chia1 [kɔŋ-tshia]: (noun) car loan installment
- kong1 chio3 [kɔŋ-tshio]: (verb) to joke
- kong1 chu3 [kɔŋ-tshu]: (noun) mortgage, housing loan
- kong1 eng3 wa3 [kɔŋ-eŋ-wa]: (verb) to gossip
- kong3hoay3 [kɔŋ-hoe]: (noun) guild, association, the association in general (and the members that make it up), compare with hoay3kuan4
- kong4 hor3 thnia1 [kɔŋ-hɔ-thia]: (verb phrase) to tell, to inform
- kong1 ka3lo4 [kɔŋ-ka-lo]: (verb) to talk nonsense
- kong3kho3 [kɔŋ-kho]: (noun) homework
- kong1ko3 [kɔŋ-ko]: (noun) advertisement
- kong1ko3pai2 [kɔŋ-ko-pai]: (noun) advertisement board, billboard
- Kong3 Pa1 [kɔŋ-pa]: (noun) Teluk Kumbar
- kong3si1 [kɔŋ-si]: (noun) company; (verb) to share
- kong1 siau1wa3 [kɔŋ-siau-ua]: (verb) to tell a joke
- kong3teik3 [kɔŋ-tek]: (noun) transference of merits, part of Taoist funerary rites
- kong1 wa3 [kɔŋ-ua]: (verb) to speak
- koo3 [ku]: (verb) to saw (homophone of ku3; (noun) mother's brothers, wife's brothers; uncles (homophone of ku3)
- koo3 kong1 [ku-kɔŋ]: (noun) grandmothers' brothers; grand uncle
- kor1 [kɔ]: (noun) mushroom
- kor1 [kɔ]: (noun) father's sisters, husband's sisters; aunts, sisters-in-law
- kor2 [kɔ]: (noun) adhesive, goo
- kor2 [kɔ]: (verb) to paste, to affix
- kor3 [kɔ]: (verb) to care, to look after, to guard
- kor4 [kɔ]: (noun) drum
- kor1ca4 [kɔ-tsa]: (adverb) ancient, a very long time ago, in the old days, old time
- kor1ca1 bi3 [kɔ-tsa-bi]: (noun) old-time taste
- kor3iok1 [kɔ-iok]: (noun) medicated plaster
- kor3-kor2 [kɔ-kɔ]: (adjective) gooey
- kor1lang2 [kɔ-laŋ]: (pronoun) each (individual)
- kor1lay3 [kɔ-le]: (verb) to encourage
- kor1lae4 [kɔ-lɛ]: (noun) mug
- kor1phio3 [kɔ-phio]: (noun) share, stock
- kor1phio3hang2 [kɔ-phio-haŋ]: (noun) share market
- kor3 poh2 [kɔ-po]: (noun) paternal grandfather's elder/younger sister; grand aunt
- kor1su3 [kɔ-su]: (noun) story
- kor1su3 chaek3 [kɔ-su-tshɛʔ]: (noun) storybook
- kor1 tiam3 [kɔ-tiam]: (verb) to look after the shop
- kor3 tniau3 [kɔ-tiãu]: (noun) father's sisters' husband; uncle
- kor3 tniau3 kong1 [kɔ-tiãu-kɔŋ]: (noun) paternal grandfather's sisters' husband; grand uncle
- kor1tong4 [kɔ-tɔŋ]: (noun) antique
- ku1 [ku]: (noun) tortoise (colloquial reading), beetle
- ku3 [ku]: (verb) to saw (homophone of koo3)
- ku3 [ku]: (adjective) old (for things) (homophone of koo3)
- ku3 [ku]: (classifier) for words; (homophone of koo3)
- ku3 [ku]: (noun) syllable
- ku4 [ku]: (adjective) long (duration), long ago
- ku3ca4 [ku-tsa]: (adverb) long ago
- ku3ca4-eh3 si2 [ku-tsa-e-si]: (phrase) of long time ago
- ku1chai3 [ku-tshai]: (noun) chive
- ku3ku4 [ku-ku]: (noun) penis
- ku3ku1ciau4 [ku-ku-tsiau]: (noun) penis
- ku3li4 [ku-li]: (noun) labourer, coolie
- kua1 [kua]: (noun) song (homophone of kwa1)
- kua3 [kua]: (noun) cover, lid
- kuai1 [kuai]: (adjective) well-behaved
- kuai3 [kuai]: (verb) to blame
- kuai1giet1 [kuai-giɛt]: (adjective) cheeky
- kuai1ku1 [kuai-ku]: (adjective) mischievous
- kuai1lan3 [kuai-lan]: (adjective) provocative (expletive)
- kuai3-kuai1 [kuai-kuai]: (adverb) compellingly
- kuak3 [kuak]: (verb) to cut, to overtake, to harvest
- kuan1 [kuan]: (noun) stage, level, hurdle, obstacle
- kuan2 [kuan]: (adjective) high, tall
- kuan3 [kuan] RW [kuan]: (noun) bottle, (noun) county
- kuan3 [kuan]: (verb) to swig, to guzzle, to drink excessive amounts
- kuan4 [kuan]: (noun) building, academy, hall, centre
- kuan4 [kuan]: (verb) to control, to administer, to manage, to rule
- kuan3lau2 [kuan-lau]: (noun) building, tall building, skyscraper
- kuan1 kang1-eh3 lang2 [kuan-kaŋ-e-laŋ]: (noun) supervisor (literally, "one who supervises work")
- kuan3khau4 [kuan-khau]: (noun) checkpoint
- kuan3-kuan2 [kuan-kuan]: (adverb) high
- kuan1si3 [kuan-si]: (adjective) familiar, accustomed
- kuan1si3 tok3 ho4 liau4 [kuan-si-toʔ-ho-liau]: (phrase) get used to it
- kuan1thau2 [kuan-thau]: (noun) canned food
- Kuan3 Yin1 [kuan-yin]: (noun) Kuan Im, Guanyin, Goddess of Mercy, Avalokitesvara, bodhisattva associated with compassion
- kui1 [kui]: (adverb) how many (root of kui1-leh2)
- kui3 [kui]: (adjective) whole, entire
- kui3 [kui]: (verb) to kneel
- kui3 [kui]: (adjective) expensive
- kui4 [kui]: (noun) ghost
- kui1-leh2 [kui-le]: (adverb) how many
- kui3-leh2 [kui-le]: (adjective) entire
- kui1 lui1 [kui-lui]: (adverb) how much (price)?
- kui1 tiam4 [kui-tiam]: (adverb) what time
- kuih4 [koe]: (noun) Nyonya pastry (also spelled kueh4 in Singapore)
- kun2 [kun]: (verb) to stew
- kun4 [kun]: (verb) to boil
- kun1chooi4 [kun-tsui]: (noun) boiled water
- kun1liong3 [kun-liɔŋ]: (verb) to struggle
Ee1 kun1liong3 ka1 heh1-leh1 chat1. She struggled with the thief.
- kun3yit1 [kun-jit]: (noun) tumeric
- kut1 [kut]: (adjective) smooth
- kut3 [kut]: (noun) bone
- kut1lat1 [kut-lat]: (adjective) hardworking
- kut1thau2 [kut-thau]: (noun) skeleton
- kwa1 [kua]: (noun) gourd, melon (homophone of kua1)
- la1 [la]: (verb) to feel blindly, to grabble
- la3 [la]: (verb) to stir
- la3gia2 [la-gia]: (noun) spider
- la3jit1 [la-dzit]: (noun) calendar
- la1ku2 [la-ku]: (adjective) popular, well-received (Malay loanword)
- la3la1 [la-la]: (noun) clam (Paphia textile, Malay loanword)
- la3pa1 [la-pa]: (noun) trumpet
- la3pa3 hua1 [la-pa-hua]: (noun) morning glory
- la3pik1 [la-pek]: (verb) to line
- la3sa1 [la-sa]: (verb) to feel, to have a gut feeling (from "rasa", Malay loanword)
- la3sam2 [la-sam]: (adjective) dirty
- la3sam2-eh3 mi3knia3 [la-sam-e-mi-kiã]: (adjective) evil spirit (literally, dirty things)
- la1tah1 [la-ta]: (verb) exclaiming with a rapid-fire burst of words, made while agitated or surprised
- lah3RW [lah]: (particle) Emphatic particle to show irritation or annoyance.
- lah4 [lah]: (particle) Emphatic particle to stress or to persuade.
- lah3lee4 [lah-li]: (noun) scaly anteater, pangolin (tenggiling, Manis)
- lai2 [lai]: (verb) to come
- lai2RW [lai]: (particle) interrogative particle to affirm, usually placed at the end of affirmative sentences that begin with si3 mm3 si3.
- lai3 [lai]: (adjective) sharp
- lai3bin3 [lai-bin]: (adverb) inside
- lai3bin3 khor3 [lai-bin-khɔ]: (adverb) underpants
- lai3bin3 sna1 [lai-bin-sã]: (adverb) undergarment, underwear, brassiere
- lai3 ca3bor1 soon1 [lai-tsa-bɔ-sun]: (noun) paternal granddaughter
- lai3ci1 [lai-tsi]: (noun) lychee (Litchi chinensis)
- lai3cni2 [lai-tsĩ]: (noun) interest (money)
- lai3 kong1 [lai-kɔŋ]: (noun) paternal grandfather
- lai3 la3sam2 [lai-la-sam]: (noun) menstruation (literally, arrival of dirtiness)
- lai3 mah4 [lai-ma]: (noun) paternal grandmother
- lai3 soon1 [lai-sun]: (noun) paternal grandson
- lai3ya4 [lai-ia]: (noun) pear
- lak1 [laʔ]: (noun) wax
- lak1 [laʔ]: (verb) to grab
- lam2 [lam]: (adjective) blue
- lam1bong4 [lam-boŋ]: (verb) to hoist a kite (Malay loanword)
- lam3 hua1 [lam-hua]: (noun) butterfly pea flower (Clitoria ternatea)
- lam3me3na4 [lam-mə-na]: (adjective) purple
- lam4 [lam]: (verb) to hug, to embrace
- lam4 [lam]: (adjective) weak
- lam1nua3 [lam-nua]: (adjective) sloppy
- lan4 [lan]: (pronoun) we
Lan4-eh3 kok1ka1 cin3 peng3aun1. Our country is very peaceful.
- lan2 [lan]: (noun) fish scale
- lan4 [lan / laŋ]: (pronoun) we (both of us)
- lan3hua1 [lan-hua]: (noun) orchid
- lan3ciau4 [lan-tsiau]: (noun) penis
- lan3pha1 [lan-pha]: scrotum
- lan3pha3 chee4 [lan-pha-tsi]: (noun) testicle
- lan1si2 [lan-si]: (adjective) very boastful (expletive, Cantonese derivative, literally, "very boastful")
- lang1 [laŋ]: (adjective) loose
- lang2 [laŋ]: (noun) person, people, man
- lang3 [laŋ]: (verb) to badger, to taunt, to tease
- lang4 [laŋ]: (noun) cage, coop
- lang3chia1 [laŋ-tsia]: (noun) trishaw
- lang3chia3 lang2 [laŋ-tshia-laŋ]: (noun) trishaw pedaler
- lang3chia3 pek3 [laŋ-tshia-pɛk]: (noun) elderly trishaw pedaler (literally, "trishaw pedaling uncle")
- lang3khek3 [laŋ-khɛʔ]: (noun) guest, customer, visitor
- lark1 [lak]: (number) six
- lat1 [lat]: (noun) energy, power, strength
- lat3sniau3 [lat-siãu]: (adjective) diligent
- lau2 [lau]: (verb) to leave behind, to retain
- lau2 [lau]: (noun) building
- lau3RW [lau]: (adjective) old
- lau3RW [lau]: (verb) to have the runs, short for lau1 sai4
- lau4 [lau]: (verb) to swindle, to bluff
- lau3 ah3 pek3 [lau-a-pɛʔ]: (noun) old man
- lau3bo4 [lau-bo]: (noun) mother
- lau3 ee2 [lau-i]: (noun) old lady
- lau3 ee3 poh2 [lau-i-po]: (noun) grand aunt; paternal grandmother's sister
- lau3eng1 [lau-eŋ]: (noun) eagle
- lau3hau3 [lau-hau]: (noun) nutmeg
- lau3hau3phoay2 [lau-hau-phoe]: (noun) dried preserved nutmeg
- lau3hau1phoe2 sni3 yam2 [lau-hau-phoe sĩ ĩm]: (idiom) an extremely stingy person (literally "nutmeg in salt"))
- lau1 hong1 [lau-hɔŋ]: (verb) to leak air
- lau3 hoe1ia4 [lau-hoe-ia]: (noun), (colloquial) old man
- lau3 hoek3 [lau-hoek]: (verb) to bleed
- lau3hor4 [lau-hɔ]: (noun) tiger
- lau3juak1 [lau-dzuak]: (adjective) fun, entertaining, amusing, (colloquial) happening
- lau3kau2 [lau-kau]: (noun) monkey
- lau3 kim3 poh2 [lau-kim-po]: (noun) maternal grandmother's elder brother's wife
- lau3kha1 [lau-kha]: (noun) downstairs (literally, "foot of the building")
- lau3khek3 [lau-khɛʔ]: (noun) old timer
- lau3lang3hoay3 [lau-laŋ-hoe]: (noun) old folks' fund
- lau3 nua3 [lau-nua]: (verb) to salivate
Khnua3 lu1 cu4 eh3 mi3knia3 co3 wah4 lau3nua3. Seeing the things you cook makes me salivate.
- lau3pae3 [lau-pɛ]: (noun) father
- lau3 phni3 [lau-phĩ]: (verb) runny nose
- lau1 sai4 [lau-sai]: (noun) diarrhoea
- lau1sit1 [lau-sit]: (adjective) honest
- lau3teng4 [lau-teŋ]: (noun) upstairs (literally, "top of the building")
- lau3thui1 [lau-thui]: (noun) stairs, staircase
- lau3ti3mun3 [lau-ti-mun]: (noun) old cucumber
- lau3ia2 [lau-ia]: (adjective) unsophisticated, old-fashioned
- law1yar4 [lɔ-ia]: (noun) lawyer (English loanword)
- law1yar1 kuan4 [lɔ-ia-kuan]: (noun) lawyer firm, law firm, legal firm (English loanword)
- lay1mau3 [le-mau]: (noun) manners
- le2 [le]: (noun) snail (homophone of -leh2)
- le2 [le]: (noun) howling of the wolf (homophone of -leh2)
- le3long1 [lɛ-lɔŋ]: (verb) to auction
- le1sen1 [lɛ-sɛ]: (noun) license (English loanword via Malay)
- le1su1 [le-su]: clerical style (a form of Chinese calligraphy style)
- lee3 lee1 loh3 loh1 [li-li-lo-lo]: (adjective) not straight to the point, beating around the bush, talking rubbish
- -leh2 [le]: (classifier) General classifier for countable items (homophone of le2)
- leh3RW [le]: (particle) Emphatic particle to express a concern over an existing or impending situation.
- leh1pai3 [le-pai]: (noun) week, Sunday
- leh1pai1terng2 [le-pai-təŋ]: (noun) church
- lek3su4 [lek-su]: (noun) history
- leng1 [leŋ]: (noun) milk, breast
- leng2 [leŋ]: (noun) dragon (colloquial reading)
- leng3 [leŋ]: (adjective) loose
- leng4 [leŋ]: (adjective) cold
- leng3 haeh2 [leŋ-hɛ]: (noun) lobster
- leng1khi3 [leŋ-khi]: (noun) air-conditioner
- leng3ngau3RW [leŋ-ŋau]: (noun) lotus root
- leong2 [lioŋ]: (noun) dragon (literary reading)
- leong3cu1 kuo3 [liɔŋ-tsu-kuɔ]: (noun) dragon fruit (Mandarin loanword)
- leow4 [liau]: (verb) to finish, to be done, to waste, to use up
Lu1 kong4 leow4 boey3? Are you done talking?
- li3aik3 [li-ek]: (noun) interest from deposit
- li1iu2 [li-iu]: (noun) reason
- li3khui1 [li-khui]: (verb) to separate
- li3kong1 [li-kɔŋ]: (noun) thunder
- li3mong4 [li-moŋ]: (noun) lemon
- li3seck3 [li-sek]: (noun) interest (money)
- liak1 [liak]: (verb) to catch, to apprehend, to arrest
- liak3 hu2-eh3 lang2 [liak-hu-e-laŋ]: (noun) fisherman (literally, "person who catches fish")
- liak3kong2 [liak-kɔŋ]: (adjective) highly irritable
- liam2 [liam]: (verb) to paste
- liam3 [liam]: (verb) to grumble, to moan, to chant
- liam3keng1 [liam-keŋ]: (verb) to chant
- liam3lor3 [liam-lɔ]: (verb) to grumble, to moan
- liam3por3 [liam-pɔ]: (noun) plaster
- liam3thik3 [liam-pɔ]: (noun) magnet
- lian3teh1 [lian-te]: (noun) necklace, neck chain (Malay loanword)
- liap1 [liap]: (classifier) classifier for small objects that are usually portable such as fruits, rocks, eggs, balls, etc.
- liau3 [liau]: (noun) ingredients (ie ho1 liau3, rich in ingredients; boh3 liau3, lacking ingredients)
- liau4RW [liau]: (adverb) already, then, after that; (particle) emphatic particle to express the perfect tense. (homophone of leow4)
- liau1kai4 [liau-kai]: (verb) to comprehend
- liau3li4 [liau-li]: (verb) to administer, to manage, to run
Ie1 cin3cnia1 gau3 liau3li4 seng3li4. He's very good at managing business.
- lien3 [liɛn]: (verb) to train, to practise
- lien4 [liɛn]: (noun) wheel
- lien4 [liɛn]: (verb) to go round, compare with seh1
- lien3 hua1 [liɛn-hua]: (noun) lotus
- lien3 lat1 [liɛn-lat]: (verb) to weigh train
- lien3lork1 [liɛn-lɔk]: (verb) to contact, to keep in touch
- lik1 [liʔ]: (verb) to split, to rend, to tear
Wah1-eh3 mah4 por4 ee1-eh3 lik1 liau4 eh3 mua. My grandmother mends her sarong which has torn
- lim1 [lim]: (verb) to drink
- liu4 [liu]: (verb) to button
- liu1wa4 [liu-ua]: (noun) button
- lo2 [lo]: (adjective) murky
- lo1kha1chu3 [lo-kha]: (adjective) tall
- lo1kun1 [lo-kun]: (noun) physician, doctor (from "dukun", Malay loanword)
- lo1kun3chu3 [lo-kun-tsu]: (noun) hospital
- lo3long4 [lɔ-lɔŋ]: (noun) lane (from "lorong", Malay loanword)
- lo3ti1 [lo-ti]: (noun) bread
- loh4RW [lo]: (particle) Emphatic particle, used to stress a point.
- loh1mor3 [lo-mɔ]: (adjective) senile, forgetful, absent-minded, crazy
- lok1 [loʔ]: (verb) to go down, (adverb) down
- lok3 chiu4 [lok-tsiu]: (verb) to get involved
- lok3hor3 [loʔ-hɔ]: (verb) to rain
- lok3mai2kai1 [loʔ-mai-kai]: (noun) 糯米雞 glutinous rice with pork, Chinese shittake mushroom, water chestnut and salted duck egg yolk wrapped in lotus leaf (Cantonese loanword), Cantonese: lo6 mai5 gai1, Mandarin pinyin: nuòmǐ jī
- lom3pang1 [lɔm-paŋ]: (verb) to hitch a ride (from "tumpang", Malay loanword)
- long2 [lɔŋ]: (noun) paper bag, plastic bag
- long2 [lɔŋ]: (verb) to put on, to don
- long3 [lɔŋ]: (verb) to hit, to collide
- long4 [lɔŋ]: (noun) workshop, gallery 廊
- long1cong4 [lɔŋ-tsɔŋ]: (adjective): all
- Long1Boey4 [lɔŋ-boe]: (noun) Paya Terubong
- long3kau1 [lɔŋ-kau]: (noun) drain, canal (from "longkang", Malay loanword)
- long3kao4 [lɔŋ-kau]: (noun) wolf
- long3kwai1 [lɔŋ-kuai also lɔŋ-kui]: (noun) galangal
- loon2 [lun]: (noun) cycle, season
- loon4 [lun]: (verb) to tolerate
- lor3RW [lɔ]: (noun) road
- lor3cai2 [lɔ-tsai]: (noun) slave
- lor3say1 [lɔ-se]: (noun) road tax
- lor3soon4 [lɔ-sun]: (noun) asparagus
- lor3thau2 [lɔ-thau]: (noun) junction
- lork1 [lɔk]: (noun) deer
- lork3 [lɔk]: (adjective) dilapidated
- lork1-lork3 [lɔk]: (adjective) sloppy
- lork3tho2 [lɔk-tho]: (noun) camel
- lu2 [lu]: (verb) to shove to someone
- lu3 [lu]: (verb) to rub
- lu4 [lu]: (pronoun) you (second person singular)
- lu1heng2 [lu-heŋ]: (verb) to go on tour
- lu1lang2 [lu-laŋ]: (pronoun) you (second person plural)
- lua3 [lua]: (verb) to accuse
- luak1 [luak]: (adjective) spicy
- luan3 [luan]: (adjective) turbulent, noisy, troublesome
- luan3-luan3 lai [luan-luan-lai]: (adjective) erratic
- lui1 [lui]: (noun) money, cent
- lui4 [lui]: (classifier) classifier for flowers.
- lun2 [lun]: (verb) turn (in sequence)
- lun4 [lun]: (verb) to endure
- lun3cun3RW [lun-tsun]: (adjective) clumsy
- lun3 ka3lok1 [lun-ka-lok]: wild pepper (from "daun kaduk", Malay loanword)
- lun3liu2 [lun-liu]: (noun) activity that is done by taking turns
- lut3 [lut]: (verb) to drop off
- lut3 khee3 [lut-khi]: (verb) to peel away
- ma1cai3RW [ma-tsai]: (noun) tomorrow (compare with mia1cai3)
Wah4-eh3 pa1 tnui4 lai2 ma1cai3. My father is coming back tomorrow.
- ma3cang1 [ma-tsaŋ]: (noun) horse mango (Mangifera foetida), (Malay loanword), (see also ba3cang1)
- ma1chau4 [ma-tshau]: (noun) lalang, blady grass (Imperata cylindrica)
- ma3chiork3 [ma-tshiɔk]: (noun) mahjong
- ma3chiork1ciau4 [ma-tshiɔk-tsiau]: (noun) sparrow
- Ma3 Cor1 Poh2 [ma-tsɔ-po]: (noun) Mazu, Matsu, Ma-tsu, the Chinese goddess of the sea
- ma3huan2 [ma-huan]: (adjective) troublesome, bothersome, difficult
- Ma3la3ka3 [ma-la-ka]: (noun) Malacca, Melaka
- Ma3 Ma1RW [ma-ma]: (noun) Mom
- ma1na4 [ma-na]: (pronoun) where (Malay loanword)
- ma1na4 uh3 [ma-na-u]: (phrase) "where got (?)"
- ma3nia4 [ma-nia]: (adverb) a while
- ma3nia1 ku4 [ma-nia-ku]: (adverb) in a short while
- ma1ta2 [ma-ta]: (noun) police (Malay loanword)
- Ma3tang1 [ma-taŋ]: (noun) Permatang Damar Laut
- ma1thai2 [ma-thai]: (noun) water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis)
- mae3 [mɛ]: (verb) to scold
- mae4 [mɛ]: (adjective) swift
- mae3 ni2 [mɛ-ni]: (noun) next year
- maek1 [mɛk]: (noun) pulse
- maek3 [mɛk]: (noun) sheep
- mah1RW [ma]: (particle) emphatic particle to reaffirm a situation, corresponding to "after all" and "isn't it" in English.
Cit1-leh1 kha1 ho4 mah1? This is better, isn't it?
- mah3: (particle) sandhi form of mah1
Cit1-leh1 mah3 kha1 ho4? Isn't this better?
- mah4 [ma]: (noun) grandmother
Wah1-eh3 Ma3 Ma1-eh3 Ma3 Ma1 si3 wah1-eh3 gua3 mah4. My mother's mother is my maternal grandmother.
- mai3 [mai]: (auxiliary verb) do not want
- mai1 liau3 [mai-liau]: (phrase) no sugar (literally, "no substance")
- mai3 liau4 [mai-liau]: (phrase) don't want anymore
- mak3RW [maʔ]: (noun) mother
- mam1-mam1 [mam-mam]: (verb) to eat (baby talk)
- man3ja1 [man-dza]: (adjective) pampered (Malay loanword)
- man4tou2 [man-thou]: (noun) 饅頭 plain steamed bun without filling (Mandarin loanword), Cantonese: maan4 tau4, Mandarin: mántou
- mang3 [maŋ]: (auxiliary verb) don't (short for mm3thang3)
- mang1cang1 [maŋ-tsaŋ]: (adjective) agitated, under pressure (Cantonese loanword), a hair-pulling situation that drives you nuts, grouchy
- mang3git3 [maŋ-git]: (noun) mangosteen (Malay loanword)
- mang3kuang1 [maŋ-kuaŋ]: (noun) jicama/yam bean
- mau1 [mau]: (verb) to hit, to wallop
- mee3RW [mi]: (noun) egg noodle, (also written mi3)
- mee3suah3 [mi-suã]: (noun) vermicelli
- meh2 [mɛ]: (noun) night
- meh4 [mɛ]: (particle) particle to express doubt, disbelief and incredulity.
Ie1 uh3 lai3 meh4? Did he really come?
- meh3pan1 [mɛ-pan]: (noun) night shift, night class
- mi3knia3RW [mi-niã]: (noun) item, things
- mi3si1 [mi-si]: (noun) nurse
- mi3si3 pang2 [mi-si-paŋ]: (noun) clinic
- mi3sow4 [mi-soe]: (noun) boils
- mia2 [mia]: (noun) name
- mia3 [mia]: (noun) life
- mia1cai3 [mia-tsai]: (noun) tomorrow (compare with ma1cai3]
- mia3lik4 [mia-lik]: (noun) fate, destiny
- miau1 [miau]: (noun) cat (also called niau1)
- miau4 [miau]: (noun) seconds
- mien4 [miɛn]: (auxiliary verb) do not have to, not necessary to; also rendered as mm3 mien4
Lu1 mien1 khee3. You don't have to go.
- mien1 khae1khee3 [miɛn-khɛ-khi]: (phrase) you're welcome
- mik4kua1 [mik-kua]: (noun) honeydew (see also ha1mik4 kua1)
- mm3 [m]: (particle) Negation particle, used to form the negative.
- mm4 [m]: (noun) father's elder brother's wife; aunt
- mm3 bat3 [m-bat]: (verb phrase) has never
- mm3 cai1 [m-tsai]: (verb phrase) do not know
- mm3 cnia3 [m-tsiã]: (verb phrase) not genuine
- mm3 cnia3 kao1 kui4 [m-tsiã-kau-kui]: (verb phrase) hideous, grotesque, appalling (literally, "not like a dog's ghost")
- mm3 mai3 [m-mai]: (auxiliary verb) to not want, the opposite of ai3 and boek3)
- mm3 mien4 [m-miɛn]: (auxiliary verb) don't have to, often contracted to just mien4
- mm3 poh2 [m-po]: (noun) paternal grandfather's elder brother's wife; grand aunt
- mm3 si3 [m-si]: (verb) to not be, i.e. isn't, aren't, etc.
- mm3thang3 [m-thaŋ]: (adjective) don't
- mm3 tiok1 [m-tiok]: (adjective) wrong, incorrect
- mm3 tu1ho4 [m-tu-ho]: (adverb) unexpectedly, coincidentally
- moi2 [mɛi]: (noun) porridge
- moi3 sai3 [mɔi-sai]: (noun) husband's younger sister's husband; younger sister's husband; brother-in-law
- mor2 [mɔ]: (noun) (body) hair, (compare with thau3mor2)
- mor3kua1 [mɔ-kua]: (noun) squash (fruit/vegetable)
- mor3kui4 [mɔ-kui]: (noun) demon
- mor3kui4 chang3 [mɔ-kui-tshang]: (noun) hair at the back of the neck standing up out of fear, nervousness, eerieness or fright
- mor3peng1 [mɔ-peŋ]: (adjective) blemished
- mor3pit3 [mɔ-pit]: (noun) writing brush (literally, "hair pen")
- mor3sang1 [mɔ-saŋ]: (noun) civet cat
- mor3sin2 [mɔ-sin]: (adjective) mad (compare with siau4)
- mor3sin3keng1 [mɔ-sin-keŋ]: (noun) asylum, mental institution
- mua1 [mua]: (noun) sarong
- mua2 [mua]: (noun) sesame seed
- mua4 [mua]: (adjective) full
- mua1ee3 [mua-i]: (adjective) satisfied
- Mua1Goay1 [mua-goe]: (noun) Full Moon, a ceremony to mark a baby having reach a full month of age
- mua3hu2 [mua-hu]: (noun) eel
- mui2 [mui]: (noun) door
- mui3 [mui]: (noun) to ask
- mui3li2 [mui-li]: (noun) door screen
- mui3pai2 [mui-pai]: (noun) address
- mui3pai3ho3 [mui-pai-ho]: (noun) house number
- mui3pai2say1 [mui-pai-se]: (noun) assessment bill
- na2 [na]: (noun) basket
- na3nah4 [na-nah]: (noun) pus
- na3au2 [na-au]: (noun) throat
- na3au2 thnia3RW [na-au-thiã]: (noun) sore throat
- nah3RW [nah]: (interjection) there you are
- nau4 [nau]: (noun) brain
- nee1RW [ni]: (particle) interrogative particle to reconfirm, corresponding to "how about" or "then" in English.
- ng3 knua1 [ŋ-kuã]: (noun) husband's father; father-in-law
- ngae3 [ŋɛ]: (verb) to insist
- ngae3si4 [ŋɛ-si]: (verb) to insist
- ngam1 [ŋam]: (adjective) matching, suitable (Cantonese loanword)
- ngeh3boey4 [ŋɛ-boe]: (noun) torpedo scad
- ngor1ah4 [ŋɔ-a]: (noun) fourfinger threadfin
- ni1 [ni]: (verb) to nibble
- ni2 [ni]: (time/duration) year
- ni4 [ni]: (noun) dye
- nia2RW [nia]: (particle) interrogative particle to verify a statement, corresponding to "right?"
- nia3RW [nia]: (particle) Emphatic particle, corresponding to "only" or "just".
- nia4 [nia]: (noun) collar
- nia4 [nia]: (noun) ravine
- niau1 [niau]: (noun) cat
- niau2 [niau]: (noun) husband's mother
- niau2 [niau]: (verb) to measure
- niau3 [niau]: (verb) to yield, to give way
- niau4 [niau]: (noun) tahil (a unit of weight measurement)
- niau1chu4 [niau-tshu]: (noun) mouse
- niau3knia4 [niau-kiã]: (noun) kitten
- niau4suan1 [niau-suan]: (noun) uric acid
- no3na1 [nɔ-na]: (noun) custard apple (Malay loanword)
- nor3RW [nɔ]: (number) two
- nor3-can3-eh3 bin3cherng2 [nɔ-tsan-e-bin-tshəŋ]: (noun) double-decker bed
- nor3phaet1chiu1 [nɔ-phɛt-tshiu]: (noun) moustache
- nua3RW [nua]: (noun) saliva
- nua3RW [nua]: (verb) to rot
- nui3RW [nui]: (noun) egg
- nui4 [nui]: (adjective) soft
- nui1cnia4 [nui-tsiã]: (adjective) softy, wimpy, sissy
- nui1kut3 [nui-kut]: (noun) soft ribs meat
- ny2 [ĩ]: (adjective) round (also written as enee2)
- nya2 [iã]: (verb) to win
- nya4 [iã]: (noun) shadow, image
- nyau2 [iãu]: (noun) goat, sheep
- nyau3 bak3 [iãu-baʔ]: (noun) mutton
- nyau3tho2 [iãu-tho]: (noun) starfruit
- Nyo3nya1 [ĩɔ-ĩa]: (noun) Straits Chinese womenfolk
- Nyo3nya3 ciak1 [ĩɔ-ĩa-tsiak]: (noun) Straits Chinese cuisine
- Nyo3nya3 kuih4 [ĩɔ-ĩa-koe]: (noun) Straits Chinese pastries
- Nyo3nya3 lang2 [ĩɔ-ĩa-laŋ]: (noun) Straits Chinese people
- Nyo3nya3 pnua3wna4 [ĩɔ-ĩa-puã-uã]: (noun) Straits Chinese porcelain
- o3lo4 [o-lo]: (verb) to compliment
- oe1 [oe]: (noun) small pot, casserole
- oe4 [oe]: (interjection) hey (vocative interjection)
- oek1 [oe]: (verb) to dig, to cangkul
- oh2 [o]: (noun) oyster
- oh3 eu2 [o-iu]: (noun) oyster sauce
- oh3wa1chye3 [o-ua-tshai]: (noun) lettuce
- ok1 [oʔ]: (noun) school; (verb) to learn
- ok3tng2 [oʔ-tŋ]: (noun) school
- ong2 [ɔŋ]: (noun) king
- ong3 [ɔŋ]: (adjective) blazing
- ong3bo3 [ɔŋ-bo]: (noun) crown
- ong3lai2 [ɔŋ-lai]: (noun) pineapple
- ong3tay3 [ɔŋ-te]: (noun) emperor
- ooi2 [uĩ]: (adjective) yellow
- ooi4 [uĩ]: (verb) to wrap around
- ooi3boey4 [uĩ-boe]: (noun) yellowtail scad
- ooi3kniau1 [uĩ-kiãu]: (noun) tumeric
- or1 [ɔ]: (adjective) black
- or2 [ɔ]: (noun) lake
- or3RW [ɔ]: (noun) taro
- or4 [ɔ]: (verb) to dig
- or3a1 [ɔ-a]: (noun) crow
- or3 bok3nee4 [ɔ-bok-ni]: (noun) black wood-ear fungus, ingredient in Chinese and Nyonya dishes
- or3 chniau1 [ɔ-tshiãu]: (noun) black pomfret
- or3hia3 [ɔ-hia]: (noun) black ant
- or3im3 [ɔ-im]: (noun) cloudy
- or3iu2 [ɔ-iu]: (noun) engine oil, lubricant oil
- Or3 Kaw4 [ɔ-kau]: (noun) metonym for Guinness Stout (literally, "black dog")
- or3koay4 [Ɋ-koe]: (noun) yam cake (in fact, made of taro)
- or3kong1 [Ɋ-kɔŋ]: (verb) to fine
- or3kui1 [ɔ-kui]: (noun) terrapin
- or3kui1 tau3RW [ɔ-kui-tau]: (noun) French beans
- Or3 Lai3RW [ɔ-lai]: (noun) Relau
- or1lor3 [ɔ-lɔ]: (adjective) bashful
- or1 lor3 [ɔ-lɔ]: (noun) roadworks
- or3pa3 [ɔ-pa]: (noun) panther (harimau kumbang)
- or3paek3 [ɔ-pɛʔ]: (adverb) carelessly, haphazardly, rashly
- or3tau3sa1 [ɔ-tau-sa]: (noun) red bean paste
- or3thau2 [ɔ-thau]: (adjective) embarrassing
- orh3RW [ɔ]: (particle) emphatic particle used to express anxiety or worry over an existing or impending situation.
- ork3 [ɔk]: (adjective) fierce
- Ou1 Co1 [ou-tso]: (noun) Europe
- Pa1 [pa]: (noun) Dad
- pa1 [pa]: (noun) forest, jungle
- pa2 [pa]: (verb) to slap
- pa3RW [pa]: (noun) leopard
- pa-3 [pa]: (adjective) other (used together with a noun, as in pa3-ui3, pa3-hang3, etc)
- pa4 [pa]: (adjective, adverb) sated, full, fully
- pa3cat1 [pa-tsat]: (noun) leech
- pa3dan1 [pa-dan]: (interjection) justified, serve him right (Malay loanword)
- pa3gar1 [pa-ga]: (noun) fence (Malay loanword)
- pa3ha1 [pa-ha]: (noun) thigh
- Pa1hai4 [pa-hai]: (noun) Perai
- pa3hang3 [pa-haŋ]: (noun) other (things), others
- pa3lang2 [pa-laŋ]: (noun) other people
- pa3 pa1 [pa-pa]: (noun) Dad
- pa1pai3 [pa-pai]: (adjective) show off, colloquial: "action", fussiness with an arrogant air (Cantonese loanword)
- Pa1 Sang1 [pa-saŋ]: (noun) Klang
- pa1sar1 ma1lam4 [pa-sa-ma-lam]: (noun) night market (from "pasar malam", Malay loanword)
- pa1sat3 [pa-sat]: (noun) market (Malay loanword)
- pa3ui3 [pa-ui]: (noun) other places
- pae2 [pɛ]: (verb) to crawl
- pae2 [pɛ]: (noun) bunch
- pae3bo4 [pɛ-bo]: (noun) parents
- paeh1snaeh3 [pɛ-sɛ̃]: (noun) general public
- paek1 [pɛʔ]: (adjective) white, colloquial
- paek3 [pɛʔ]: (verb) to peel off the skin
- paek3 [pɛʔ]: (verb) to climb
- paek3 khi4 [pɛʔ-khi]: (verb) to climb up
- paek3 khi4 lai2 [pɛʔ-khi-lai]: (verb) to rise up (in opposition)
- paek3chai1thau2 [pɛ-tshai-thau]: (noun) white radish, daikon
- paek3chye3 [pɛʔ-tshai]: (noun) Chinese cabbage
- paek3chniau1 [pɛ-thiãu]: (noun) white pomfret
- paek3co2 [pɛʔ-tso]: (noun) grunt fish
- paek3hia3 [pɛʔ-hia]: (noun) termite
- paek3kha3te2 [pɛʔ-kha-te]: (noun) traffic police (literally "white soles")
- paek3koay4 [pɛʔ-koe]: (noun) ginkgo
- paek3thark1 [pɛʔ-thak]: (noun) colloquial reading
- paek3thor3 [pɛʔ-thɔ]: (noun) rabbit
- paek3tio3RW [pɛʔ-tio]: (noun) skin depigmentation
- paek3tuah3 [pɛʔ-tuah]: (noun) largehead hairtail fish
- pai1gor3 [pai-gɔ]: (noun) Friday
- pai1it3 [pai-it]: (noun) Monday
- pai1jee3 [pai-dzi]: (noun) Tuesday
- pai1lark1 [pai-lak]: (noun) Saturday
- pai1si3 [pai-si]: (noun) Thursday
- pai1snar1 [pai-sã]: (noun) Wednesday
- pai2 [pai]: (noun) signboard, pendant, badge
- pai2 [pai]: (verb) to arrange
- pai2 [pai]: (adjective) linked, terrace
- pai3 [pai]: (verb) to worship
- pai4 [pai]: (verb) to limp
- pai3siang1 kuo1 [pai-siaŋ-kuɔ]: (noun) passion fruit
- paik3 [pek]: (verb) to force
- paik1chek3RW [pek-tshek]: (adjective) agitated, under pressure, stressed, a hair-pulling situation that drives you nuts
- pak3 [paʔ]: (number) hundred
- pak1ban3 [paʔ-ban]: (adjective) stuck up, snobbish (from pah1-ban3, literally, "one million", hence millionaire), a person acting pah1ban3 is showing off like he is some big-shot millionaire
- pan1 [pan]: (noun) class, classroom, shift, session
- pan3 [pan]: (verb) to trick, to play a practical joke on, to sabotage, to undermine
Ie1 pan3 wah4, wah4 pan3 ie1 tok1tnui4. He tricked me, I tricked him back.
- pan1caet1 [pan-tsɛt]: (noun) puncture (English loanword)
- pan3dan4 [pan-dan]: (noun) fragrant pandanus leaf, used in cooking (Malay loanword)
- pan3gee2 [pan-gi]: (adjective) cheap
- pan3huat3 [pan-huat]: (noun) solution
Lu4 uh3 ha1mik1 pan3huat3 hor3 cit1-leh1 boon3tay2 boh2? Do you have a solution for this problem?
- pan3jiu2 [pan-dziu]: (noun) handkerchief
- pan2 mee3RW [pan-mi]: (noun) wheat/flour noodle
- pan3tang1 [pan-taŋ]: (noun) abstinence; (adjective) superstitious (Malay loanword)
- pang1 [paŋ]: (noun) plank
- pang1 [paŋ]: (noun) period
- pang2 [paŋ]: (noun) room
- pang3 [paŋ]: (verb) to release, to let go, to drop off
Wah1 pang3 wah1-eh3 knia4 ti1 ok3tng2. I dropped off my son (child) at school.
- pang1 ciak1 [paŋ-tsiak]: (noun) recess, lunch break
Wah4 cap3 tiam4 pang1 ciak1. I have my recess at ten o'clock.
- pang1jio3 [paŋ-dzio]: (verb) to urinate
- pang1kae4 [paŋ-kɛ]: (noun) school holidays
- pang3keng1 [paŋ-keŋ]: (noun) room, bedroom
Cit1-keng3 chu3 uh3 snar3-leh3 pang3keng1. This house has three bedrooms.
- pang1khin3 sang1 [paŋ-khin-saŋ]: (verb) to relax
- pang3long4 [paŋ-keŋ]: (noun) lumber mill, sawmill
- pang1ok1 [paŋ-ok]: (phrase) school dismisses
- pang1phooi3 [paŋ-phui]: (verb) to fart
- pang1sai4 [paŋ-sai]: (verb) to defecate, to experience a bowel movement, to crap, to do one's business
- pang1sai1cua4 [paŋ-sai-tsua]: (noun) toilet paper
- park1 [pak]: (verb) to tie
- park3chye3 [pak-tsai]: (verb) to home cater
Wah1 park3chye3 eng3goay3 boh3 tiam1sniah1 cu4. I home cater as I don't have time to cook.
- park3hoay1sit1 [pak-hoe-sit]: (noun) monthly catered meals
- Park1knia1 [pak-kiã]: (noun) Beijing
- park1lai3 [pak-lai]: (noun) the inside of the stomach
- pau1 [pau]: (noun) steamed bun
- pau1 [pau]: (verb) wrap
- pau3hu2 [pau-hu]: (noun) abalone
- pau3hu3 kor1 [pau-hu-kɔ]: (noun) abalone mushroom
- pek3 [peʔ]: (number) eight
- pek3 [pɛʔ]: (noun) father's elder brother; uncle
- pek1kark3RW [peʔ-kak]: (noun) star anise
- pek1 kong1 [pɛʔ-kɔŋ]: (noun) paternal grandfather's elder brother; grand uncle
- peng1 [peŋ]: (noun) ice, (adjective) iced; (noun) soldier
- peng1 [peŋ]: (noun) ice, (adjective) iced; (noun) soldier
- peng4 [peŋ]: (verb) to turn, to turn (to speak to someone), to overturn
- peng3aun1 [peŋ-an]: (noun) peace
- peng3aun1 [peŋ-an]: (adjective) peaceful
- peng3iu4 [peŋ-iu]: (noun) friend
- peng3knia4 [peŋ-kiã]: (noun) entry-level soldier, pawn, private
- Peng3 Sniah2 [peŋ-siã]: (noun) Penang
- pha1ka3laut1 [pha-ka-laut]: (verb) to drop
- pha1sng4 [pha-sŋ]: (adverb) regretfully, unfortunately, pity, what a waste
- phak3 [phaʔ]: (verb) to beat
- phak1 chiu4 [phaʔ-tshiu]: (verb) to clap, to clap hands
- phak3chniau4 [phaʔ-tshiãu]: (verb) to rob
- phak1 ciam1 [phaʔ-tsiam]: (verb) to administer injection
- phak1ek3 [phaʔ-ek]: (noun) hiccups
- phak1 kong1ko3 [phaʔ-kɔŋ-ko]: (verb) to advertise
- phak1leng1tau4 [phaʔ-leŋ-tau]: (verb) to somersault
- phak1nya2 [phaʔ-iã]: (verb) to vanquish, to overcome
- phak1 phua3 [phaʔ-phua]: (verb) to breach, to break down
- phak1 si4 [phaʔ-si]: (verb) to be beaten to death
- phak1thor1 [phaʔ-thɔ]: to go on a date, to make out (Cantonese loanword, literally "beat & drag")
- phak3 to4 [phaʔ-to]: (verb) to vanquish, to defeat
- phan2 [phan]: (adjective) cluttered
- phang1 [phaŋ]: (noun) bee (see also bit3phang1)
- phang1 [phaŋ]: (adjective) fragrant (compare with hniau1)
- phang2 [phaŋ]: (verb) to serve, to lay on the table
- phang3 [phaŋ]: (noun) fissure between to pieces of wood
- phang4 [phaŋ]: (verb) to spin around
- phang1bo2 [phaŋ-bo]: (verb) to misplace
Wah1 phang1bo2 wah1-eh3 so1si2. I misplaced my key.
- phang1kni3 [phaŋ-kĩ]: (verb) to lose
Wah1 phang1kni3 wah1-eh3 lui1. I lost my money.
- phang1kni3 [phaŋ-kĩ]: (adjective) lost, missing
- phark1 [phak]: (verb) to dry under the sun
Phak1 hor3 i1 ta1. Sun it to dry.
- phau3 [phau]: (noun) fire-cracker, fireworks
- phau3 [phau]: (verb) to prepare beverage (coffee, cocoa, etc.) by adding water to powdered mix and stirring
- phau1bae4 [phau-bɛ]: (noun) horse racing
- phe1 [phe]: (noun) letter
- pheng3 [pheŋ]: (verb) to compare
- pheng3ko4 [pheŋ-ko]: (noun) apple
- phi1 [phi]: (verb) to spread
- phi4 [phi]: (noun) crust
- phien3 [phiɛn]: (verb) to lie, to bluff
- phiet1 [phiɛt]: (noun) stroke
- phin4 [phin]: (verb) to agree, to decide
- phnae1 [phɛ̃]: (verb) to apportion, to allocate
- phnai4 [phãi]: (adjective) bad, fierce, broken, out-of-order, cruel, harsh, tyrannic
- phnai1 co1 lang2 [phãi-tso-laŋ]: (phrase) to be in a difficult position trying to please everyone
- phnai1 khuan4 [phãi-khuan]: (adjective) bad attitude
- phnai1seh3 [phãi-se]: (adjective) embarrassed, shy
- phnai1si3 [phãi-si]: (adjective) naughty
- phni1 [phĩ]: (verb) to take advantage of someone
- phni3RW [phĩ: (noun) mucus
- phni3 chooi4 [phĩ-tsui]: (noun) mucous fluid
- phni3khang1 [phĩ-khaŋ]: (noun) nostril
- phni3khang3 sai4 [phĩ-khaŋ-sai]: (noun) booger, dried nasal mucus
- phni3kong4 [phĩ-kɔ]: (noun) nose
- pho1 [pho]: (noun) town
- pho3 [pho]: (verb) to hug, to carry (a child) in the arm
- pho3cim4 [pho-tsim]: (noun) pillow
- pho3tay4 [pho-te]: (noun) downtown, city centre, George Town
- pho3to2 [pho-to]: (noun) grape
- phoay2 [phoe]: (noun) skin, leather
- phoay3 [phoe]: (verb) to eat accompanying dishes
Wah1 ciak3 du3rian2 phoay1 pnui3. I ate durian with rice.
- phoay3tnua1 [phoe-tuã]: (noun) blanket
- phok3 [phok]: (noun) residue, remnant
- phong3 [phɔŋ]: (adjective) bloated, puffed up
- phong1chu4 [phɔŋ-tshu]: (noun) squirrel
- phong1pha3 [phɔŋ-pha]: (noun) blister
- phooi1 [phui]: (verb) to spit out
- phooi3 [phui]: (noun) fart
- phooi3ki3cheng3 [phui-ki-tsheŋ]: (noun) cobra
- phor1thong1 [phɔ-thɔŋ]: (adjective) regular, basic
- phor1thong1-eh3 im1 [phɔ-thɔŋ-e-im]: (grammar) basic tone, citation tone, standing tone
- phor3wa4 [phɔ-wa]: (noun) exercise book
- phu2 [phu]: (verb) to float
- phua3 [phua]: (verb) to break, to tear; (adjective) broken, torn
- phua1khang1 [phua-khaŋ]: (adjective) punctured
- phua1pnae3 [phua-pɛ̃]: (verb) to fall sick
- phuak1 [phuak]: (verb) to drap, to hang
Ie1 phuak1 heh1-leh1 sna1 hor3 i1 ta1. He hang up the shirt to dry it.
- phuak1 [phuaʔ]: (verb) to throw water at something, to make something wet
Ie1 phuak1 chooi4 ie1-eh3 chia1 liau4 ba3lu1 say1 sa1bun2. After making his car wet, he soaped it up.
- phun2 [phun]: (noun) pot, basin
- phun3 [phun]: (verb) to fling
- phun1 thau3lor3 [phun-thau-lɔ]: (verb) to be dismissed
- Pi3nang3 Su3 [pi-naŋ-su]: (noun) Penang Island
- pi3ring3 knia4 [pi-riŋ-kiã]: (noun) saucer
- piak3 [piaʔ]: (noun) wall
- piak1tu2 [piaʔ-tu]: (noun) wall cupboard
- ping3gang1 [pin-ŋaŋ]: (noun) waist (Malay loanword)
- piau1 chee1 [piau-tsi]: (noun) elder maternal female cousin
- piau1 ko1 [piau-ko]: (noun) elder maternal male cousin
- piau1 moi3 [piau-moi]: (noun) younger maternal female cousin
- piau1 tee3 [piau-ko]: (noun) younger maternal male cousin
- piau3thau2 [piau-thau]: (noun) brand
- pien3 [piɛn]: (verb) to transform, to change, to become, to turn into
- pien3 [piɛn]: (noun) instance
- pien3 [piɛn]: (adjective) ready
- pien3-pien3 [piɛn-piɛn]: (adverb) in advance, beforehand
- pien1thai3 [piɛn-thai]: (noun) pervert; (adjective) perverted
- pih3 [piʔ]: (noun) turtle, terrapin
- pik3 [piʔ]: (verb) to crack
- pit3 [pit]: (noun) pen
- pit1ca3 [pit-tsa]: (verb) to break (Malay loanword)
- pnae1 [pɛ̃]: (verb) to pry open
- pnae2 [pɛ̃]: (adjective) flat
- pnae3 [pɛ̃]: (noun) disease, sickness
- pnae3-pnae2 [pɛ̃-pɛ̃]: (adverb) flat, together
- pneah4 [piã]: (noun) cracker, biscuit
- pni1 [pĩ]: (preposition, noun) side, edge
- pni4 [pĩ]: (verb) to compare
- pni4 [pĩ]: (adjective) flat
- pni1hu2 [pĩ-hu]: (noun) flounder
- pni1nya4 [pĩ-ĩa]: (preposition) side
- pni1sai3 [pĩ-sai]: (verb) to contest, to enter in a competition
- pni1siang3 [pĩ-siaŋ]: (adjective) acting up
- pnia3 [piã]: (verb) to challenge, to clash, to combat
- pnia3 [piã]: (verb) to pour water
Ie1 pnia3 heh1-leh1 la3sam3 chooi4 ha1kak1. He poured the dirty water away.
- pnia1tin3 [piã-tin]: (noun) gang clash
- pnua1 [puã]: (verb) to shift, to relocate, to rummage (homophone of pnuah1)
- pnua2 [puã]: (noun) plate
- pnua3 [puã]: (adjective) half
- pnua1hang3 [puã-haŋ]: (adverb) anything
- pnua1jit1 [puã-dzit]: (noun) half a day
- pnua3 knia4 [puã-kiã]: (noun) saucer
- pnua1lang2 [puã-laŋ]: (pronoun) anybody
- pnua1meh2 [puã-mɛ]: (noun) midnight
- pnua1 si4 [puã-si]: (adverb) severely
- pnua3wna4 [puã-uã]: (noun) crockery
- pnua3wna1 tu2 [puã-uã-tu]: (noun) kitchen cabinet
- pnuah1 [puã]: (verb) to act (homophone of pnua1)
- pnui3RW [puĩ]: (noun) cooked rice
- pnui3thang4 [puĩ-thaŋ]: (noun) rice barrel, (slang) glutton
- pnui3tiam3 [puĩ-tiam]: (noun) eatery, restaurant
- po3 [po]: (verb) to report
- po1 ba3lai4 [po-ba-lai]: (verb) to report to the police station
- po1cua4 [po-tsua]: (noun) newspaper
- po1hiam4 [po-hiam]: (noun) insurance
- po1hiau2 [po-hiau]: (noun) transvestite
- po3ho2 [po-ho]: (noun) mint (Mentha x piperita)
- po1hu3 [po-hu]: (verb) to protect
- po1kan1 [po-kan]: (noun) village centre, small town (from "pekan", Malay loanword)
- po1ko3 [po-ko]: (verb) to report
- po1ko3 sin3bun2 [po-ko-sin-bun]: (verb) to report a news
- po3lo3so1 [po-lo-so]: (verb) to sweet talk, to soothe, to placate
- po1pi3 [po-pi]: (verb) to protect
- po3piah4 [po-piã]: (noun) wet springroll
- po3piah1 cni3 [po-piã-tsĩ]: (noun) deep-fried popiah
- po1poe3 [po-poe]: (adjective) precious
- po1siu2 [po-siu]: (noun) revenge, (verb) to revenge
- poay1 [poe]: (verb) to fly
- poay2 [poe]: (verb) to return, to compensate (homophone of poe2)
- poay3cun1 [poe-tsun]: (noun) plane
- poay3cun3por1 [poe-tsun-pɔ]: (noun) airfield
- poay3cun3tnua1 [poe-ki-tuã]: air ticket
- poay3ki1 [poe-ki]: (noun) plane
- poay3ki3phio3 [poe-ki-phio]: air ticket
- poay3ki3tniau2 [poe-ki-tiãu]: airport
- poe1 [poe]: (noun) trophy
- poe2 [poe]: (verb) to accompany (homophone of poay2)
- poe3 [poe]: (noun) times, instances
- poe3 [poe]: (verb) to memorize
- poe4 [poe]: (verb) to brush off
- pok1 [pok]: (adjective) slim (not thick), diluted, thin
- pok3 [pok]: (verb) to take a chance, to hope
- pom3-pom2 [pom-pom]: (verb) to bathe (baby talk)
- pon1dan4 [pɔn-dan]: (noun) transvestite (Malay loanword)
- por3 [pɔ]: (noun) cloth
- por3 [pɔ]: (verb) to chew
- por4 [pɔ]: (verb) to mend, to compensate
- por3mui2 [pɔ-mui]: (noun) department
- por1tor4 [pɔ-tɔ]: (noun) stomach
- por1tor1 thnia3 [pɔ-tɔ-tiã]: (noun) stomach ache
- pot3-pot1 [pot-pot]: (noun) car (baby talk)
- pu2 [pu]: (verb) to bake
- pu1lak1RW [pu-lak]: (particle) particle that corresponds to "then", "some more", "too" and "also", see also tu1lak1. (from "pula", Malay loanword)
- pu3lok1 [pu-lok]: (noun) pillow (from "peluk" meaning "to hug", Malay loanword)
- pu3lok1 i3kan1 [pu-lok-i-kan]: (noun) Nyonya mixed vegetable curry with fish stomach (from "perut ikan", Malay loanword)
- Pu3lor2 [pu-lɔ]: (noun) Balik Pulau
- puak1 [puak]: (verb) to gamble, to play
- puak3chao3 [puak-tsau]: (verb) to play dirty
- puak3keow4 [puak-kiau]: (verb) to gamble
- puat1 [puat]: (noun) sen in tens (from "baht", Thai loanword)
- puat3to4 [puat-to]: (verb) to fall (from "jatuh", Malay loanword)
- pun1 [pun]: (particle) Emphatic particle that corresponds to "also", see also tun1 (from "pun", Malay loanword)
- pun1 [pun]: (verb) to divide, to apportion
- pun2 [pun]: (verb) to blow
- pun3 [pun]: (noun) pound
- pun3 [pun]: (adjective) sloppy
- pun4 [pun]: (classifier) classifier for book.
- pun4 [pun]: (noun) capital
- pun1cni2 [pun-tsĩ]: (noun) capital
- pun3 le2 [pun-le]: (verb) to howl as a wolf
- pun3le2 [pun-le]: (noun) howling
- pun1sin1 [pun-sin]: (adverb) personally
- pun2 sit3 [pun-sit]: (verb) to blow out, to extinguish
- pun1su2 [pun-su]: (noun) ability
- pun1tau4 [pun-tau]: (noun) dustpan
- pun1tay3 [pun-te]: (adjective) local, domestic
- pun1tay3lang2 [pun-te-laŋ]: (noun) local person
- pun3tnua3 [pun-tuã]: (adjective) lazy
Cit1-khien1 kang3lang2 cin3 pun3tnua3. This worker is very lazy.
- ra1ber1thuk3 [ra-bə-thuk]: (noun) eraser (from "rubber", English derivative)
- ro1jak1 [ro-dzak]: (noun) rojak, fruit salad with shrimp paste
- ro1jak1 [ro-dzak]: (noun) mishmash of items
- sa1 [sa]: (verb) to seize
- sa1bun2 [sa-bun]: (noun) soap
- sa3lah3RW [sa-lah]: (adjective) wrong, guilty (Malay loanword)
- sa3man3RW [sa-man]: (noun) fine for an offence (Malay loanword)
- sa3man3 hu2 [sa-man-hu]: (noun) salmon
- sa3se1 [sa-se]: (noun) comb
- sa3yang1 [sa-yaŋ]: (verb) to love (Malay loanword)
- sae3RW [sɛ]: (verb) to shoot
- sai1 [sai]: (noun) lion; (noun) west
- sai4 [sai]: (noun) shit, stool, faeces, excrement
- sai4 [sai]: (verb) to drive (vehicle)
- saik3 [sek]: (adjective) smart
- sai3 gu2 [sai-gu]: (noun) rhinoceros
- sai1seng2 [sai-seŋ]: (noun) giant catfish, bronze catfish
- sai3to1 [sai-to]: (noun) wolf herring
- sai1yong3 chye3 [sai-iɔŋ-tshai]: (noun) watercress (Nasturtium officinale)
- sak1 [saʔ]: (verb) to boil in water (as with eggs, vegetables, etc.) to blanch
- sam4 [saʔ]: (verb) to sprinkle over
Sam4 tam3pok3 yam2 ti1 heh1-leh1 thng1. Sprinkle a bit of salt to the soup.
- sam3bai1 [sam-bai]: chili paste (Malay loanword)
- sam3can2 [sam-tsan]: (noun) pork belly, short for sam3can3bak3
- sam3can3bak3 [sam-tsan-baʔ]: (noun) pork belly, often shortened to sam3can2
- sam3pah4 [sam-pah]: (noun) rubbish, trash (Malay loanword)
- sam3pah1 long2 [sam-pah-lɔŋ]: (noun) garbage bag
Hor3 wah4 cit3-leh3 sam3pah1 long2 boek1 tim3 sam3pah4. Give me a garbage bag to throw away some rubbish.
- sam3pah1 say1 [sam-pah-se]: (noun) maintenance fee (for apartments, flats, etc.)
Ta3ta3 keng3 chu3 tua3 cit1peng2 tiok3 boek1 hor3 sam3pah1 say1. Every house over here must pay trash collection fee.
- sam3pah1 thang4 [sam-pah-thaŋ]: (noun) dustbin, trash can
Tim3 sam3pah4 jip1 khee3 sam3pah1 thang4. Throw trash into the dustbin.
- sam3pai1 [sam-pai]: (conjunction) until (Malay loanword)
- sam3pat3 [sam-pat]: (adjective) crazy (Cantonese loanword, literally, three-eight)
- sam1phoay3 [sam-phoe]: accompanying dishes
Wah1 ciak3 pnui3 ka1 snar3 hang3 sam1phoay3. I ate rice with three types of accompanying dishes.
- san3dar1 [san-da]: (verb) to lean (from "sandar", Malay loanword)
- sang1 [saŋ]: (adjective) loose (soil)
- sang3 [saŋ]: (verb) to send away
- sang3goay1 [saŋ-goe]: (noun) hair bun
- sang1kae3 mm4 [saŋ-kɛ-m]: (noun) lady master of matrimony
- sar3din3 hu2 [sa-din-hu]: (noun) sardine
- sark3 [sak]: (verb) to push
- sark3 chut3 [sak-tshut]: (verb) to push out, to oust, to eject
- sau3 [sau]: (noun) cough (short for kha3sau3)
- sau3 [sau]: (verb) to cough (short for kha3sau3)
- sau3 [sau]: (verb) to sweep
- sau1thor3kha1 [sau-thɔ-kha]: (verb) to sweep the floor
- sau1thor3kha1-eh3 lang2 [sau-thɔ-kha-e-laŋ]: (noun) sweeper (literally, "person who sweeps the floor")
- say1 [se]: (noun) duty, bill
- say3gin2 [se-gin]: (noun) duty, tax
- say4 [se]: (verb) to clean, to wash
- say1lay4 [se-le]: (verb) to baptise
- say1sna3ki1 [se-sã-ki]: (noun) washing machine
- say1 thau3keong1 [se-thau-kiɔŋ]: (verb) to wash spoons
- se1 [se]: (verb) to comb
- se3 [se]: (noun) method, procedure, solution
- se3 [se]: (adjective) small (vernacular reading)
- se4 [se]: (verb) to rebuke (colloquial)
- se1cek3 [se-tsek]: (noun) father's youngest brother
- se1ciak3 [se-tsiak]: (adjective) small-sized
- se1cim4 [se-tsim]: (noun) father's youngest brother's wife
- se1ee2 [se-i]: (noun) second wife, lesser wife, mistress
- se1han3 [se-han]: (adjective) young
- se1han1ee2 [se-han-1]: (adjective) younger aunt; mother's younger sisters
- se1ji3 [se-dzi]: (adjective) cautious (compare it with sio1sim1)
- se1kai3 [se-kai]: (noun) world
- se1khai3 [se-khai]: (noun) lower case, small letters
- se1liap3chee4 [se-liap-tsi]: (adjective) petite
- se3 thau2 [se-thau]: (verb) to comb the hair on the head
- se1thau3keong1 [se-thau-kiɔŋ]: (noun) teaspoon
- se1thau3nau4 [se-thau-nau]: (verb) to brainwash
- se3tng2 [se-tŋ]: (noun) small intestine
- se3 tng2 [se-tŋ]: (noun) detox
- see3 [si]: (number) four (homophone of si3)
- see1 kak3 [si-kak]: (noun) rectangle
- see1 kak1-kak3 [si-kak-kak]: (noun) square
- see1kha3cua2 [si-kha-tsua]: (noun) monitor lizard
- seen2 [sin]: (verb) to catch with the hands (homophone of sin2)
- sek1 [seʔ]: (verb) to go around, to circumnavigate, compare with lien4
- sek3 [seʔ]: (verb) to insert, to slip under or in between
- sem1bang4 [sem-baŋ]: (verb) to loaf, to hang out
- sen3duk1 [sən-dok]: (noun) ladle
- seng1 [seŋ]: (verb) to raise (as with a flag)
- seng2 [seŋ]: (adjective) successful
- seng3 [seŋ]: (verb) to pamper
- seng4 [seŋ]: (noun) province
- seng3jin3 [seŋ-dzin]: (verb) to confess
Ie1 boh3 seng3jin3 ie1 thau3thek1 wah4-eh3 mi3knia3. He does not confess to stealing my stuff.
- Seng3 Ki3 Snua1 [seŋ-ki-suã]: (noun) Penang Hill
- seng3kong1 [seŋ-kɔŋ]: (adjective) successful
- seng3 kong4 [seŋ-kɔŋ]: (verb) to say beforehand
- seng3li4 [seŋ-li]: (noun) business
- seng1te3 [seŋ-te]: (noun) temper
- seck1 [sek]: (adjective) ripe
- seck3 [sek]: (noun) colour
- seck1bat1 [sek-bat]: (adjective) aware of surroundings, alert
- seck1chooi4 [sek-tsui]: (noun) colour, tone, hue
- shiok1 [ʃiok]: (adjective) bliss, gratification, pleasure, thrill
- si1 [si]: (noun) fibre
- si2 [si]: (noun) time
- si2 [si]: (verb) to dismiss, to fire from a job
- si3RW [si]: (verb) to be (is/are/was/were)
- si3RW [si]: (adverb) yes
- si4 [si]: (verb) to die
- si4 [si]: (adjective) dead
- si3ceng1 [si-tseŋ]: (noun) clock
- si3ceng3lau2 [si-tseŋ-lau]: (noun) clocktower
- si3kua1 [si-kua]: (noun) watermelon
- si1 kui1 knia4! [si-kui-kiã]: (interjection) bloody idiot!
- si3 meh4 [si-mɛ]: (expression) really?
- si3mm3 si3RW [si-m-si]: (verb) isn't it
- si1paek3 [si-pɛʔ]: (adjective) extremely, exceedingly
- si3put1 [si-put]: (noun) shellfish
- si1-si4 [si-si]: (adverb) insistently
- si1snua1kong4 [si-suã-kɔŋ]: (verb) to talk rubbish
- si3tua3 [si-tua]: (adjective) eldest
- sia3 [sia]: (verb) to wither, to shrivel
- sia4 [sia]: (verb) to write
- sia1ji3 [sia-dzi]: (verb) to do desk work (literally, "to write words")
- sia1ji3 pang2 [sia-dzi-paŋ]: (noun) study room
- sia3kap3 [sia-kap]: (noun) barramundi (Malay loanword)
- sia1soe1 [sia-soe]: (adjective) disgraceful
- siah3na2 [siah-na]: (noun) Straits Chinese basket
- siak3 [siak]: (verb) to peel off the skin; (noun), tin, ore
- Siam3 [siam]: (noun) Siam
- siam4 [siam]: (verb) to stand aside, to move aside, to avoid, to dodge
- Siam3 Lang2 [siam-laŋ]: (noun) Thai person
- siam1sai3hong1 [siam-sai-hɔŋ]: (verb) good at finding excuses or pleading ignorance to avoid work
- Siam3 Tay3 [siam-te]: (noun) Thailand
- siang3 [siaŋ]: (adjective) same
- siang3ka1 [siaŋ-ka]: (very) to resemble
- siang3ka1 [siaŋ-ka]: (adverb) just like
- siang3khuan4 [siaŋ-khuan]: (adjective) similar
- siang3-siang3 [siaŋ-siaŋ]: (adjective) all the same
- siang3sin3 [siaŋ-sin]: (verb) to believe
Wah1 siang3sin3 ie1. I believe him.
- siau1 [siau]: (adjective) digested, abate
- siap3 [siap]: (adjective) astringency
- siau3 [siau]: (noun) account
- siau4 [siau]: (adjective) crazy (compare with mor3sin2)
- siau1eng4 [siau-eŋ]: (noun) photograph
- siau1eng1ki1 [siau-eŋ-ki]: (noun) camera
- siau4 khee3 liau4 [siau-khi-liau]: (phrase) go crazy
- siau1lang2 [siau-laŋ]: (noun) crazy person
- siau1lang3keng1 [siau-laŋ-keŋ]: (noun) asylum, mental institution
- siau1liam3RW [siau-liam]: (verb) to miss, to yearn for, to long for, to pine for
- siau1lien2 [siau-liɛn]: (adjective) young
- siau1lien3kay1 [siau-liɛn-ke]: (noun) young man, (regional colloquial) bloke, bugger
- siau3sit3 [siau-sit]: (noun) news
- sien1 [siɛn]: (noun) rust
- sien1 [siɛn]: (noun) angel
- sien1 [siɛn]: (verb) to bluff, to fool
- sien3 [siɛn]: (adjective) bored, tired, reluctant
- sim1 [sim]: (noun) heart
- sim3ceng2 [sim-tseŋ]: (noun) mood
- sim3cong3 pnae3 [sim-tsɔŋ-pɛ̃]: (noun) heart attack
- sim3knua1 [sim-kuã]: (noun) heart
- sim3knua3thau2 [sim-kuã-thau]: (noun) chest
- sim3pu3 [sim-pu]: (noun) daughter-in-law
- sim1 thiau3 [sim-thiau]: (noun) heart beat
- sin1 [sin]: (adjective) new
- sin2 [sin]: (noun) spirit, God (homophone of seen2)
- sin3bun2 [sin-bun / sim-bun]: (noun) news
- Sin3 Cnia1 [sin-tsiã]: (noun) New Year, Chinese New Year
- Sin3ka3po1 [sin-ka-po]: (noun) Singapore
- sin3kang4 [sin-kaŋ]: (noun) Sungai Ara
- sin3khek3 [sin-khɛʔ]: (noun) new immigrants (literally, "new guests")
- sin3lo2 [sin-lo]: (noun) salary
- sin3seh1 [sin-sɛ]: (noun) Chinese traditional medicine physician (disambiguated from sin3snaeh1)
- sin3sneah1 [sin-sɛ]: (noun) master, mister; (noun) teacher (disambiguated from sin3seh1)
- sin3thang2 [sin-thaŋ]: (noun) house lizard
- sing3ku1 [siŋ-ku]: (noun) body
- sio1 [sio]: (adjective) small (literary reading)
- sio1 [sio]: (verb) to burn, to roast, to barbecue
- sio3 [sio]: (preposition) with one another
- sio3 bak3 [sio-baʔ]: (noun) roasted meat, usually pork
Wah1 khee1 ban3san1 beh1 sio3bak3. I go to the market to buy roasted meat.
- sio3bat3 [sio-bat]: (verb) to know one another
- sio1boey2 [sio-boe]: (noun) 燒賣 bite-sized dumplings topped with crab roe, Cantonese: siu1 maai6, Mandarin pinyin: shāomài
- Sio1 Cia4 [sio-tsia]: (noun) Miss (young lady)
- sio1cien3 [sio-tsiɛn]: (verb) to go to war (literally, "to shoot firearms at each other")
- sio1 ciak1 [sio-tsiak]: (adjective) small appetite
- sio1khi3 [sio-khi]: (noun) sensitive
- sio1khua3 [sio-khua]: (adjective) trivial
- sio1long3 [sio-lɔŋ]: (verb) to collide
- sio1moi3 [sio-moi]: (noun) younger sister
- sio1ok1 [sio-ok]: (noun) primary school
- sio3phak3 [sio-phaʔ]: (verb) to fight
- sio3phak1hu2 [sio-phaʔ-hu]: (noun) fighting fish
- sio3phak1kay1 [sio-phaʔ-ke]: (noun) fighting cock
- sio1tee3 [sio-ti]: (noun) younger brother
- sio3sia3 [sio-sia]: (adjective) disgraceful
- sio3siam4 [sio-siam]: (verb) to avoid each other
- sio3siang3 [sio-siaŋ]: (adjective) mutually alike
- sio3sim3 [sio-sim]: (adjective) careful
- sio3siong3 [sio-siɔŋ]: (verb) to stare at each other
- sio1su3 [sio-su]: (noun) small matter
- sio3suk1 [sio-suk]: (verb) to bet
- sio3thai2 [sio-thai]: (verb) to go into battle (literally, "to slaughter each other")
- sio3 thang1 [sio-thaŋ]: (adjective) open at both ends
- sio1ti3 [sio-ti]: (noun) younger brother, (colloquial) penis
- siong1 [siɔŋ]: (noun) injury, wound (adjective) injured, wounded, (see also tiok3 siong1)
- siong3 [siɔŋ]: (verb) to stare
- siong3hong1 [siɔŋ-hoŋ]: (noun) influenza
- siong3-siong2 [siɔŋ-siɔŋ]: (adverb) often, frequently
- Siong3tay3 [siɔŋ-te]: (noun) God
- sip3 [sip]: (adjective) damp
- sit1 [sit]: (noun) wing
- sit3 [sit]: (adjective) extinguished
- sit3 [sit]: (verb) to faint
- sit1cai3 [sit-tsai]: (adjective) surely die
- sit3bang3 [sit-baŋ] : (adjective) disappointed, (also written and pronounced as sit1bong3)
- sit1bong3 [sit-bɔŋ]: (adjective) disappointed, (also written and pronounced as sit1bang3)
- sit1leh4 [sit-le]: (adjective) apologies, sorry
- sit1na3 [sit-na]: (noun) lightning
- sit1pai3 [sit-pai]: (adjective) mediocre, unsuccessful, ineffective, failure
- siu1 [siu]: (verb) to keep, to put away, to receive, to save
- siu1 [siu]: (verb) to trim, to work on embroidery
- siu2 [siu]: (verb) to swim
- siu3 [siu]: (noun) nest
- siu3li4 [siu-li]: (verb) to repair
- siu3 chooi4 [siu-tsui]: (verb) to swim
- siu3 looi1 [siu-lui]: (verb) to save/put away money for future use
- siu3 sna1 [siu-sã]: (verb) to bring in the washing
- sna1 [sã]: (noun) clothes, dress, shirt (homophone of snar1)
- sna3kau1 [sã-kau]: (noun) clothes hanger
- sna3tu2 [sã-tu]: (noun) wardrobe
- snaeh1 [sɛ̃]: (verb) to give birth
- snaeh3 [sɛ̃]: (noun) surname
- snaeh4 [sɛ̃]: (ver) to save, (adjective) thrifty
- snaeh3ciok1 [sɛ̃-tsiok]: (noun) kidney stones
- snaeh3knia4 [sɛ̃-kiã]: (verb) to give birth to a child
- snaeh1mia3 [sɛ̃-mia]: (noun) life
- snaeh3mor2 [sɛ̃-mɔ]: (adjective) overtly difficult, unreasonably difficult, problematic, prickly
- snaeh3mor3thang2 [sɛ̃-mɔ-thaŋ]: (noun) caterpillar
- snaeh3ti3chng1 [sɛ̃-ti-tshŋ]: (noun) piles
- snaeh3wak1 [sɛ̃-uak]: (noun) survival
- snar1 [sã]: (number) three (homophone of sna1)
- snar3 su3ku4 [sã-su-ku]: (idiom) crazy (literally, three quarters)
- sng1 [sŋ]: (noun) ice
- sng4 [sŋ]: (verb) to waste
- sng3kak3 [sŋ-kak]: (noun) ice cube
- sng3kak1 teh2 [sŋ-kak-tɛ]: (noun) iced Chinese tea
- sng3pang2 [sŋ-paŋ]: (noun) cold room
- sng3tu2 [sŋ-tu]: (noun) refrigerator
- sni3 [sĩ]: (noun) fan
- sni3 [sĩ]: (verb) to preserve, to prepare food or any perishable substance so as to resist decomposition or fermentation
- sni3 [sĩ]: (adjective) sting, sharp irritation (homophone of sni3)
- sniah1 [siã]: (noun) sound
- sniah2 [siã]: (verb) to entice, to bait, to tempt
- sniau1 [siãu]: (noun) crate, box
- sniau1 [siãu]: (classivier) items in crates or boxes
Nor3-sniau1-eh3 kam1. Two crates of oranges.
- sniau1 [siãu]: (noun) birth sign
- sniau3 [siãu]: (verb) to think
- sniau3 [siãu]: (adverb) too
- sniau4 [siãu]: (verb) to award
- snua1 [suã]: (noun) hill, mountain
- snua3 [suã]: (noun) string
- snua3 [suã]: (verb) to loosen, to disintegrate, to fall apart
- snua4 [suã]: (noun) odds and ends, miscellaneous items
- snua3hu2 [suã-hu]: (noun) shark
- snua3pa1 [suã-pa]: (noun) jungle, forest (literally, "hilly forest")
- snua3pa1 kau2 [suã-pa-kau]: (noun) backward person (literally, "forest monkey")
- snua3too1 [suã-tu]: (noun) wild boar
- snuai3nya4 [suãi-ĩa]: (noun) mango
- snuai3nya1 cu1 [suãi-ĩa-tsu]: (noun) mempelam
- snui1 [suĩ]: (adjective) sour
- snui1 [suĩ]: (verb) to ache
- snui3 [suĩ]: (verb) to count
- snui1 cheng1 [suĩ-tsheŋ]: (phrase) in the thousands
- snui1 pah1 [suĩ-paʔ]: (phrase) in the hundreds
- snui3kam1 [suĩ-kam]: (noun) lime
- snui1pnua1 [suĩ-puã]: (noun) abacus
- snui1 siau3 [suĩ-siau]: (verb) to calculate, to do the accounts
- so1 [so]: (verb) to stroke
- so1 [so]: (verb) to caress
- so4 [so]: (verb) to lock (homophone of soh4)
- so4 [so]: (adverb) so (English loanword, homophone of soh4)
- so3enee2 [so-ĩ]: (verb) to form balls, particularly glutinous rice balls
- so1si2 [so-si]: (noun) key
- so3-so1 [so-so]: (verb) to caress
- so1thau2 [so-thau]: (noun) lock
- soe1 [soe]: (adjective) unfortunate, bad luck
- soh4 [so]: (noun) elder brother's wife; husband's elder brother's wife; sister-in-law (homophone of so4)
- sok3 [sok]: (verb) to suck, to smoke
- som4 [som]: (verb) to cast a lot in a handgame
- som3bong3 [sɔm-bɔŋ]: (adjective) haughty
- song4 [sɔŋ]: (adjective) enjoyable
- song4 [sɔŋ]: (classifier) stack
Cit3-song4-eh3 cua4. A stack of papers.
- soon1 [sun]: (noun) grandchild
- soon2 [sun]: (adjective) smooth
- soon4 [sun]: (noun) bamboo shoot
- soon3hong1 [sun-hɔŋ]: (noun) threadfin (ikan kurau)
- soon2 ah4 [sun-a]: (noun) brother's son; nephew
- soon3 sai3 [sun-sai]: (noun) son's daughter's husband; daughter's daughter's husband; grand son-in-law
- soon1 sim3pu3 [sun-sim-pu]: (noun) son's son's wife; daughter's son's wife; grand daughter-in-law
- sor1hoay3 [sɔ-hoe]: (noun) expense
- sor1cai3 [sɔ-tsai]: (noun) place, area
- sor3cai2 [sɔ-tsai]: (noun) stupid person (Cantonese loanword)
- Sor3lien2 [sɔ-liɛn]: (noun) Russia
- sor1ry4 [sɔ-ri / sɔ-li]: (adjective) sorry (English loanword)
- sor1yee4 [sɔ-yi]: (conjunction) so, therefore
- sorm1 [sɔm]: (adjective) lukewarm
- sort1 [sɔt]: (adjective) crazy, demented
Lu1 sort1 liau4 nia2? Are you crazy already?
- sort1sort1tay2 [sɔt-sɔt-te]: (adjective) crazy (Cantonese loanword)
Cit1-khien1 lang2 sort1sort1tay2 eh2! This guy is crazy!
- su1 [su]: (verb) to lose, to be defeated
- su3 [su]: (noun) matter
- su3 [su]: (noun) island
- su3bang1 [su-baŋ]: (noun) earring (Malay loanword)
- su3bun2 [su-bun]: (adjective) gentle, well-mannered, innocent
- su3hu3 [su-hu]: (noun) master, expert, specialist
- su3inia2 [su-ĩa]: (verb) to bet, to contest
- su3ka3 [su-ka]: (verb) to like (Malay loanword)
- su3ku4 [su-ku]: (noun) quarter (Malay loanword)
- su3yau3 [su-iau]: (adjective) necessary
- sua1 [sua]: (noun) sand
- sua4 [sua]: (verb) to move, to shift
- suan1 [suan]: (verb) to roll over
- suan1 [suan]: (verb) to mock
- suan3ciok1 [suan-tsiok]: (noun) diamond (literally, "precious stone")
- suan1ku4 [suan-ku]: (noun) election
- suan1na4 [suan-na]: (noun) leek
- suan1thau2 [suan-thau]: (noun) garlic
- sun3lor3 [sun-lɔ]: (adjective) along the way
- sut3 [sut]: (verb) to whip, to cane
- Swa1thau2 [sua-thau]: (noun) Swatow, present-day Shàtóu in Guangdong Province, China
- swee4 [sui]: (adjective) beautiful
- ta1 [ta]: (adjective) dry
- ta3bek1 [ta-bek]: (verb) to salute (from "tabek", Malay loanword)
- ta1han3RW [ta-han]: (verb) tolerate, endure
- ta1lok1 [ta-lok]: (adverb) where
- ta3ma1 [ta-ma]: (adverb) just now;
- ta3ma1 ... nia3 [ta-ma-nia]: (adverb) just now;
- ta3pe1 [ta-pe]: (verb) to filter
- ta3pe3 lau3 [ta-pe]: (noun) funnel, colander
- ta3pi1 [ta-pi]: (conjunction) but (Malay loanword)
- ta3pi1 nee4 [ta-pi-ni]: (conjunction) however
- ta3por1 [ta-pɔ]: (noun) man, male, boy
- ta3por3 knia4 [ta-pɔ-kiã]: (noun) young, small, little boy
- ta3por3 lang2 [ta-pɔ-laŋ]: (noun) husband, "hubby"
- ta3por3 peng3iu4 [ta-pɔ-peŋ-iu]: (noun) boyfriend
- ta1ta3 [ta-ta]: (noun) bye bye, ta-ta
- ta3ta3 [ta-ta]: (adverb) every
- ta3ta3 leh2 [ta-ta-le]: (adverb) every item
- ta3ta3 tau2 [ta-ta-tau]: (adverb) every time, always
- taek3 [tɛʔ]RW: (verb) to be pinned under
- taek1tay3 [tɛʔ-te]: (noun) deposit, down payment
- tai1 [tai]: (adjective) stupid
- tai2 [tai]: (verb) to bury
- tai2 [tai]: (noun) stage
- tai3 [tai]: (adjective) big (literary reading for tua3)
- tai3ci3 [tai-tsi]: (noun) matter, affair
- tai3aet1 [tai-ɛt]: (adjective) stuck up, snobbish
- tai3kae1 [tai-kɛ]: (noun) everybody
- tai1piau4 [tai-piau]: (verb) to represent, to replace, to stand in (for someone)
- tak1 [taʔ]: (verb) to pedal, to cycle
- tak3 [taʔ]: (verb) to stick, to paste, to affix
- tam1 [tam]: (verb) to sample
- tam2 [tam]: (verb) wet
- tam3po3yak3RW [tam-po-yak]: (noun) Teluk Tempoyak
- tam3pok1 [tam-pok]: (noun) a little
- tam3pok3 phi4 [tam-pok-phi]: (noun) a little bit
- tam3pok3-tam3pok1 [tam-pok-tam-pok]: (noun) bit by bit
- tam1sim1 [tam-sim]: (adjective) worried
- tan2 [tan]: (verb) to make a sound
- tan4 [tan]: (verb) to wait
- tang2 [taŋ]: (noun) brass
- tang3RW [taŋ]: (noun) weight; (adjective) heavy
- Tang3 Cek3 [taŋ-tsek]: (noun) winter solstice
- tang3hoon4 [taŋ-hun]: (noun) glass noodle, used in many Penang Nyonya dishes
- tang3kua1 [taŋ-kua]: (noun) wintermelon (Benincasa hispida)
- tang3mui2 [taŋ-mui]: (noun) wife's sisters' husband; brothers-in-law
- tang3pnua2 [taŋ-puã]: (noun) tray
- tang3 siong1 [taŋ-siɔŋ]: (noun) serious injury
- tang3soo3 [taŋ-su]: (noun) colleague
- tap3 [tap]: (verb) to answer, to reply
- tap3an4 [tap-an]: (noun) answer
- tau1 [tau]: (adjective) stuck-up, snobbish
- tau2 [tau]: (verb) to report, to tell tale
- tau3 [tau]: (verb) to join
- tau3RW [tau]: (noun) bean
- tau4 [tau]: (classifier) instance, times
- tau3cniau3 [tau-tsiau]: (noun) fermented bean paste
- tau3geh2 [tau-gɛ]: (noun) beansprout
- tau3hu3 [tau-hu]: (noun) soft beancurd
- tau3hua1 [tau-hua]: (noun) soyabean pudding dessert
- tau3iu2 [tau-iu]: (noun) soya sauce (homophone of tau3iu2
- tau3iu3 bak3 [tau-iu-bah]: (noun) Penang Nyonya dish of pork belly in soysauce
- tau3ju4 [tau-dzu]: (noun) fermented beancurd
- tau3ke1 [thau-kɛ]: (noun) boss, chief, (also written as tow3kay1)
- tau1kha3chiu4 [tau-kha-tshiu]: (verb) to assist (literally, "to fix legs and hands")
- tau3knua1 [tau-kuã]: (noun) hard beancurd
- tau3pok1 [tau-pok]: (noun) soyabean puffs
- tau3sah1 [tau-sah]: (noun) red bean paste
Cit1-leh1 pau1-eh3 ana3 si3 bak3 a3si3 tau3sah1? The filling of this steamed bun is meat or red-bean paste?
- tau1tay4 [tau-te]: (noun) silver pomfret
- tau3yiu2 [tau-iu]: (noun) tourist guide (homophone of tau3iu2)
- tay3 [te]: (classifier) classifier for flat pieces of items.
- tay3 [te]: (noun) earth, land
- tay4 [te]: (verb) to fill, to contain
Heh1-leh1 cua1lork3 tay1 ha1mik1? What is contained in that paper bag?
- tay4 [te]: (adjective) short
- tay4 [te]: (preposition) bottom
- tay3cor1 [te-tsɔ]: (noun) ground rent
- tay3ci4 [te-tsi]: (noun) address
- tay3cu4 [te-tsu]: (noun) address
- tay3say1 [te-se]: (noun) quit rent
- tay3tor2 [te-tɔ]: (noun) map
- te3 [te]: (number) ordered sequence, ordinal numbering (first, second, etc.)
- te4 [te]: (preposition) bottom
- te3boey4 [te-boe]: (adverb) lastly
- te3tek1 [tɛ-tɛk]: (noun) nipple (Malay loanword)
- te3ya4 [te-ia]: (noun) pocket
- tee3 [ti]: (noun) younger brother (short for sio1tee3, homophone of ti3)
- tee1 hu3 [ti-hu]: (noun) younger brother's wife; husband's younger brother's wife; sister-in-law
- teem3 [tim]: (verb) to double boil (homophone of tim3)
- teh2 [tɛ]: (noun) hot tea with milk
- teh3 au1 [tɛ-au]: (noun) tea cup
- teh2 cnia4 [tɛ-tsiã]: (noun) hot tea, with milk, less sugar
- teh3kor4 [tɛ-kɔ]: (noun) kettle
- teh2 mai1 liau3 [tɛ-mai-liau]: (noun) hot tea, with milk, no sugar
- teh3 or1 [tɛ-ɔ]: (noun) hot tea, without milk
- teh3 or1 cnia4 [tɛ-ɔ-tsiã]: (noun) hot tea, without milk, less sugar
- teh3 or1 mai1 liau3 [tɛ-ɔ-mai-liau]: (noun) hot tea, without milk and no sugar
- teh3 or3 peng1 [tɛ-ɔ-peŋ]: (noun) iced tea without milk
- teh3 peng1 [tɛ-peŋ]: (noun) iced tea with milk
- teh3 see1 [tɛ-si]: (noun) hot tea with less milk
- teh3 see3 peng1 [tɛ-si-peŋ]: (noun) iced tea with less milk
- teik3 [tek]: (noun) virtue (homophone of tek3)
- Teik1 Kok3 [tek-kɔk]: (noun) Germany
- tek3 [tek]: (noun) bamboo (homophone of teik3)
- tek1coay3 [tek-tsoe]: (verb) to offend
- tek1ga1kee1 [tek-ga-ki]: (noun) soyabean stick, beancurd sticks
- tek1si4 [tɛk-si]: (noun) taxi (English loanword via Malay)
- tek1tharn1 [tek-than]: (noun) razor clam (siput buluh, Ensis arcuatus)
- teng1 [teŋ]: (noun) lantern, lamp
- teng1 [teŋ]: (adjective) previous
- teng3RW [teŋ]: (verb) to sting (bee, mosquito, insects)
- teng3 [teŋ]: (verb) to nail
- teng3 [teŋ]: (adjective) hard (not soft)
- teng4 [teŋ]: (classifier) classifier for vehicles
- teng4 [teŋ]: (classifier) classifier for vehicles.
- teng1bin3RW [teŋ-bin]: (preposition, adverb) above
- teng1bin3peng2 [teŋ-bin-peŋ]: (noun) top part
- teng1goay4 [teŋ-goe]: (adverb) last month
- teng3hoon1 [teŋ-hun]: (verb) to get engaged
- teng3ki3 [teŋ-ki]: (noun) identity card
- teng3ngah1gi2 [təŋ-ŋa-gi]: (adjective) crazy (slang, Malay derivative, from "setengah gila")
- teng1ni2 [teŋ-ni]: (adverb) last year
- teng1tau4 [teŋ-tau]: (adverb) last time, previously
- teng3thiau3 [teŋ-thiau]: (noun) lamp post
- teong1 [tiɔŋ]: (adjective) medium, middle, moderate
- teong3hor3 [tiɔŋ-hɔ] (adjective) honest, sincere, faithful
- Teong3 Kok3 [tiɔŋ-kɔk]: (noun) China
- teong3ng1 [tiɔŋ-ŋ]: (adverb) in the middle, centre
- teong3ok1 [tiɔŋ-oʔ]: (noun) secondary school
- tet3pet1 [tɛt-pɛt]: (adjective) special, exceptional
- tha1na1 [tha-na]: (adverb) now
- thai1 [thai]: (adverb) too
- thai1kam3 [thai-kam]: (noun) eunach
- thai1ko1 [thai-ko]: (noun) leprosy
- thai1ko3 kam1 [thai-ko-kam]: (noun) kaffir lime
- thai1ko3 kam1-eh3 hiok1 [thai-ko-kam-e-hiok]: (noun) kaffir lime leaf
- thai1 kok3 [thai-kɔk]: (noun) Thailand
- thai2 si4 [thai-si]: (verb) to slaughter, to slay
- thak1 [thaʔ]: (verb) to stack, (classifier) classifier for things in stacks such as paper and books
- thak3 [thaʔ]: (noun) pagoda
- tham1 [tham]: (verb) to desire, to lust, to crave, to hunger for
- tham2 [tham]: (noun) phlegm
- tham3ciak1 [tham-tsiak]: (adjective) greedy (for food)
- tham3ciak3kui4 [tham-tsiak-kui]: (noun) glutton
- tham3phooi3 [tham-phui]: (noun) spitoon, children's potty
- tham3sim1 [tham-sim]: (verb) to desire, to be greedy, to covet
- thang1 [thaŋ]: (preposition) through
- thang2 [thaŋ]: (noun) worm, insect
- thang4 [thaŋ]: (noun) barrel, pail
- thang3 chee1 [thaŋ-tsi]: (noun) elder paternal female cousin
- thang1koay3 [thaŋ-koe]: (verb) to pass through
- thang3 ko1 [thaŋ-ko]: (noun) elder paternal male cousin
- thang3 moi3 [thaŋ-moi]: (noun) younger paternal female cousin
- thang3nga4 [thaŋ-ŋa]: (noun) window
- thang3nga1por3 [thaŋ-ŋa-pɔ]: (noun) curtain
- thang3 tee3 [thaŋ-ko]: (noun) younger paternal male cousin
- thark1 [thak]: (verb) to read
- thark3 chaek3 [thak-tshɛk]: (verb) to study
- tharn1 [than]: (noun) mussel (siput sudu, Mytilidae)
- tharn3 [than]: (verb) to get something good (compare with tiok1)
- that3 [that]: (verb) to kick
- that3 [that]: (verb) to block
- thau2 [thau]: (noun) head
- thau2 [thau]: (adverb) secretly
- thau3 [thau]: (adjective) brisk, strong (for wind)
- thau3 [thau]: (adverb) secretly
- thau4 [thau]: (verb) to remove, to loosen
- thau3cang1 [thau-tsaŋ]: (noun) queue, ponytail
- thau3ceng2 [thau-tseŋ]: (preposition) front
- thau3chio3 [thau-tshio]: (verb) to laugh secretly, to laugh gleefully
- thau3chiu4 [thau-tshiu]: (noun) specialist
- thau2 hin2 [thau-hin]: (adjective) dizzy
- thau3hong1 [thau-hɔŋ]: (adjective) crazy
- thau3 hong1 [thau-hɔŋ]: (noun) strong wind
- thau3keong1 [thau-kiɔŋ]: (noun) spoon
- thau3keong3knia4 [thau-kiɔŋ-kiã]: (noun) teaspoon
- thau3khak3 [thau-khak]: (noun) head
- thau3khak3 wna4 [thau-khak-uã]: (noun) crown (upper skull)
- thau3 ki2 [thau-ki]: (noun) initial installment
- thau3chiu4 [thau-tshiu]: (noun) specialist
- thau3lang2 [thau-laŋ]: (noun) headman
- thau3lor3 [thau-lɔ]: (noun) employment
- thau3mor2 [thau-mɔ / tha-mɔ]: (noun) hair (of the head)
- thau3seng1 [thau-seŋ]: (adverb) foremost (within a series of actions), first
- thau3-thau2 [thau-thau]: (adverb) at first, in the beginning
- thau2 thnia3 [thau-thiã]: (noun) headache
- thau3thek1 [thau-seŋ-theʔ]: (verb) to steal
- thay1 [the]: (noun) to recline
- thay3ie4 [the-i]: (noun) reclining armchair
- theh3 [the]: (verb) to stand in for someone, to substitute (see also tai1piau4)
- thek1 [theʔ]: (verb) to take
- thek3 hoay3 [theʔ-hoe]: (verb) to collect products
- thek1 koay3 [theʔ-koe]: (verb) to take over
- theng2 [theŋ]: (verb) to stop (compare with hnaek3)
- thi2 [thi]: (verb) to crow, as of a rooster
- thi2 [thi]: (verb) to shave
- thi1khi4 [thi-khi]: (adjective) stubborn, obstinate
- thi1thau3to1 [thi-thau-to]: (noun) razor blade
- thiak3 [thiaʔ]: (verb) to tear
Ie1 thiak3 heh1-leh1 cua4 co1 nor3 tnui2. He tore the paper into two.
- thiau3 [thiau]: (noun) pole, pillar, post
- thiau3 [thiau]: (verb) to jump
- thiau1bu4 [thiau-bu]: (verb) to dance
- thiau1tang2 [khi-taŋ]: (verb) to be in a trance
- thik3 [thik]: (noun) iron, steel
- thik1bo3 [thik-bo]: (noun) helmet
- thit1tho2 [thit-tho]: (verb) to play
- thiu1 [thiu]: (verb) to extract, to draw out
- thiu3 hoek3 [thiu-hoeʔ]: (verb) to take blood sample
- thiu3 kin1 [thiu-kin]: (noun) muscle cramp
- thna4 [thã]: (verb) to block, to support, to prevent
- thnae3 [thɛ̃]: (verb) to resist, to defend oneself, to ward off attack
- thng1 [thŋ]: (noun) soup
- thng2 [thŋ]: (noun) sugar
- thng3 [thŋ]: (verb) to heat up
- thni1 [thĩ]: (noun) sky
- thni1 [thĩ]: (verb) to add on
- thni3RW [thĩ]: (verb) to sew
- thnia1 [thiã]: (verb) to hear, to listen (homophone of thniah1)
- thnia3 [thiã]: (noun) ache, pain (homephone of thniah3)
- thnia1 kong4 [thiã-kɔŋ]: (adverb) reportedly, according to hear say
- thnia3 wa3 [thiã-ua]: (verb) to obey
- thnia3wa3 [thiã-ua]: (adjective) obedient
- thniah1 [thiã]: (noun) living room, lounge, reception hall (homophone of thnia1)
- thniah3RW [thiã]: (verb) to love (homophone of thnia3)
- thnua1 [thuã]: (noun) stall
- tho2 [tho]: (noun) peach
- tho4 [tho]: (verb) to request, to seek, (job)
to apply
- thor2 [thɔ]: (noun) soil
- thor3 [thɔ]: (noun) rabbit
- thor4 [thɔ]: (verb) to protrude, to jut out
- thor1hoek3 [thɔ-hoek]: (verb) to be infuriated
- thor3kha1 [thɔ-kha]: (noun) floor
- thor3khor3 [thɔ-khɔ]: (noun) company
- thor3sat3 [thɔ-sat]: (noun) catfish
- thor3tau3 [thɔ-tau]: (noun) peanut, groundnut
- thor3tau3thng2 [thɔ-tau-thŋ]: (noun) peanut candy
- thu2 [thu]: (verb) to delay
- thu2 [thu]: (adjective) dim-witted, feebleminded
- thua1 [thua]: (verb) to drag
- thuak3 [thuak]: (noun) drawer
- thuan1su1 [thuan-su]: seal style (a form of Chinese calligraphy style)
- thui1 [thui]: (verb) to massage
- thui2 [thui]: (noun) idiot
- thui4 [thui]: (noun) thigh, drumstick
- thui3 kut3 [thui-kut]: (noun) massage
- thuk3 [thuk]: (verb) to rub, to erase
- thun3 [thun]: (verb) to fill up with soil
- thun3hai4 [thun-hai]: (verb) to reclaim the sea
- thun3thor [thun-thɔ]: (verb) to reclaim with soil
- thun3thor2-eh3 tay3 [thun-thɔ-e-te]: (noun) reclaimed land
- ti1 [ti]: (preposition) at
- ti2 [ti]: (noun) pool
- ti3lam1 [ti-lam]: (noun) mattress (Malay loanword)
- ti3mun3 [ti-mun]: (noun) cucumber (Malay loanword)
- ti3si2 [ti-si]: (adverb) when, at what time (alternative form to ki3si2)
- ti3ti3 [ti-ti]: (adverb) constantly
- ti3tu1 [ti-tu]: (noun) spider
- ti3tu3si1 [ti-tu-si]: (noun) spiderweb
- tia1 [tia]: (noun) father
- tiak1 [tiak]: (verb) to flick
- tiam1 [tiam]: (noun) chopperboard
- tiam2 [tiam]: (verb) to sink
- tiam3 [tiam]: (adjective) quiet (Malay loanword); (noun) shop
- tiam4 [tiam]: (noun) dot
- tiam4 [tiam]: (noun) o'clock
- tiam4 [tiam]: (verb) to light, to ignite
- tiam4 [tiam]: (verb) to dedicate, as in song over the radio
- tiam1ceng1 [tiam-tseŋ]: (noun) hour
- tiam1chu3 [tiam-tshu]: (noun) shophouse
- tiam1sim1 [tiam-sim]: (noun) snack, light meal (compare with tim3sam1)
- tiam1sniah1 [tiam-siã]: (noun) time
- tiam1thau1 [tiam-thau]: (noun) shop
- tiau2 [tiau]: (classifier) for long objects that are bendy, i.e. road, thread, rope, string, etc.
- tiau2 [tiau]: (noun) dynasty
- tiau2 [tiau]: (verb) to stick on
- tiau3 [tiau]: (verb) to hang
- tiau1am3 [tiau-am]: (verb) to commit suicide by hanging
- tiau1kae3 [tiau-kɛ]: (verb) to bargain, to haggle
- tiau3ti2 [tiau-ti]: (adverb) deliberately, purposely
- tien1 [tiɛn]: (adjective) groggy
- tien3RW [tiɛn]: (noun) electric
- tien3RW [tiɛn]: (noun) electricity
- tien3RW [tiɛn]: (verb) to perm
- tien3cu1 [tiɛn-tsu]: (noun) bulb
- tien3cu1phe1 [tiɛn-tsu-phe]: (noun) email
- tien3hoay4 [tiɛn-hoe]: (noun) lighting, torchlight
- tien3hoay1kuan1 [tiɛn-hoe-kuan]: (noun) power department
- tien3hoay1say1 [tiɛn-hoe-se]: (noun) electric bill
- tien3iu2 [tiɛn-iu]: (noun) petrol, gasoline
- tien3nau4 [tiɛn-nau]: (noun) computer
- tien3phe1 [tiɛn-phe]: (noun) email
- tien3si3ki1 [tiɛn-si-ki]: (noun) television
- tien3sni3 [tiɛ-sĩ]: (noun) electric fan
- tien3snua3 [tiɛ-suã]: (noun) electric cable
- tien3 teh3kor4 [tiɛ-tɛ-kɔ]: (noun) electric kettle
- tien3thor2 [tiɛn-thɔ]: (noun) battery
- tien3thui1 [tiɛn-thui]: (noun) lift, elevator
- tien3tien1 [tiɛn-tiɛn]: (adverb) groggily
- tien3tiok1 [tiɛn-tiok]: (adverb) definitely
- tien3wa3 [tiɛn-ua]: (noun) telephone
- tien3wa3kuan1 [tiɛn-ua-kuan]: (noun) telecom (Telekom Malaysia, TM)
- tik3 [tiʔ]: (verb) to drip
Tik3 tam3pok3 chooi1 hor3 heh1-leh1 por3 tam2. Drip a bit of water to make the cloth wet.
- tim3 [tim]: (verb) to throw, to toss (homophone of teem3)
Mm3thang3 luan3-luan3 tim3 ba1tu2. Don't recklessly throw stones.
- tim3ba1 [tim-ba]: (noun) pail (Malay loanword)
- tim3sam1 [tim-sam]: (noun) dim sum (Cantonese loanword), though the term translates directly to Hokkien as tiam1sim1, the meaning is slightly different
- tim1thau2 [tim-thau]: (verb) to nod
- tin1 [tin]: (noun) tin, can
- tin3na4 [tin-na]: (noun) cane
- ting1tang3 [tiŋ-taŋ]: (verb) to move
- ting3tong1 [tiŋ-tɔŋ]: (adjective) crazy
- tiok1 [tioʔ]: (adjective) to be correct, to be right
- tiok1 [tioʔ]: (verb suffix) to get, to receive (used with a main verb) usually something bad (though with exceptions, such as tiok3 ji3, to win the lottery)
- tiok3 [tioʔ]: (verb) to pull
- tiok3boek3 [tioʔ-boeʔ]: (auxiliary verb) must, have to
- tiok3 chiam2 [tioʔ-tshiam]: (verb) to be stabbed, to be pricked
- tiok3chnae3knia1 [tioʔ-tshɛ̃-kiã]: (verb) to get a shock
- tiok3 chuak3 [tioʔ-tshuak]: (verb) to be astonished
- tiok3 hut3 [tioʔ-hut]: (verb) to get beaten up
- tiok3 ji3 [tioʔ-dzi]: (verb) to strike lottery
- tiok3 ka3 [tioʔ-ka]: (verb) to be bitten
- tiok3 kam4 [tioʔ-kam]: (verb) to catch a cold
- tiok3 ke3liet1 [tioʔ-kə-liɛt]: (verb) to sprain
- tiok3 kuak3 [tioʔ-kuak]: (verb) to get a cut
- tiok3 lau4 [tioʔ-lau]: (verb) to get cheated
- tiok3 long3 [tioʔ-loŋ]: (verb) to get hit by a vehicle
- tiok3 mae3 [tioʔ-mɛ]: (verb) to get scolded
- tiok3 mau3 [tioʔ-mau]: (verb) to get beaten up
- tiok3 pa2 [tioʔ-pa]: (verb) to get slapped
- tiok3 phak3 [tioʔ-phaʔ]: (verb) to get beaten up
- tiok3 phien3 [tioʔ-phiɛn]: (verb) to get cheated
- tiok3 sio1 [tioʔ-sio]: (verb) to get burnt
- tiok3 siong1 [tioʔ-siɔŋ]: (verb) to get injured
- tiok3 su3 [tioʔ-su]: (verb) to get into trouble
- tiok3 teng3 [tioʔ-teŋ]: (verb) to get stung
- tiok3 that3 [tioʔ-that]: (verb) to get kicked, to be blocked (as in the sink)
- tiok3 thng3RW [tioʔ-tŋ]: (verb) to be scalded
- tiok3 tork1 [tioʔ-tɔk]: (verb) to be poisoned
- tiok3 tork3 [tioʔ-tɔk]: (verb) to be fleeced
- tiok3 uan3ong4 [tioʔ-uan-ɔŋ]: (verb) to get framed
- tiong3hong1 [tiɔŋ-hɔŋ]: (noun) stroke (disease)
- tna1 [tã]: (verb) to shoulder
- tna4 [tã]: (adjective) guts
- tnae3 [tɛ̃]: (verb) to press
- tnee1 [tĩ]: (adjective) sweet
- tnee3jio3RW [tĩ-dzio]: (noun) diabetes
- tnee3 kuih4 [tĩ-koe]: (noun) sticky Nyonya pastry
- tng1 [tŋ]: (verb) to spy, to stake out
- tng2 [tŋ]: (noun) intestine
- tng3nga1tor3 [tŋ-ŋ-tɔ]: (noun) intestine
- tng2 [tŋ]: (adjective) long (measurement)
- tng3 [tŋ]: (verb) to pawn
- Tng3 Lang2 [tŋ-laŋ]: (noun) Chinese person, Chinese people
- Tng3 Lang1 [tŋ-suã]: (noun) Chinese person
- Tng3 Lang1 [tŋ-suã]: (adjective) Chinese
- Tng3 Snua1 [tŋ-suã]: (noun) China
- tnia3 [tiã]: (verb) to order, to raise a purchase
- tnia4 [tiã]: (noun) wok
- tnia3tiok1 [tiã-tioʔ]: (adverb) certainly
- tniau1 [tiãu]: (noun) sheet, copy
- tniau3 [tiãu]: (noun) parents' sisters' husbands; uncles
- tniau3 [tiãu]: (adjective) indigestion
- tniau3 [tiãu]: (verb) to resemble
- tniau3 kong1 [tiãu-kɔŋ]: (noun) grandfathers' sisters' husband; grand uncle
- tniau3 lang2 [tiãu-laŋ]: (noun) wife's father; father-in-law
- tniau3 mm4 [tiãu-m]: (noun) wife's mother; mother-in-law
- tnia3 [tiã]: (verb) to place an order
- tnia4 [tiã]: (noun) wok
- tnua1 [tuã]: (noun) ticket
- tnua3 [tuã]: (verb) to fool, to swindle
- tnui3 [tuĩ]: (verb) to break into two, to snap
- tnui4 [tuĩ]: (verb) to go home, to return
- tnui4 lai2 [tuĩ-lai]: (verb) to return
- tnui3 lor3 [tuĩ-lɔ]: (verb) to become severed
- to1 [to]: (noun) knife
- to3 [to]: (verb) to pour
Wah1 to3 tam3pok3 chooi4 jip1 khee3 au1. I poured a bit of water into the cup.
- to4 [to]: (verb) to lie down, to recline, to collapse, to spill
- to1chiu4 [to-tsiu]: (preposition) left side
- to3long3 [tɔ-lɔŋ]: (adverb) please (Penang Hokkien word adopted from Malay)
- to3li4 [to-li]: (noun) manners, etiquette
- to1miau2 [to-miau]: (noun) pea shoot
- to1thau3peng4 [to-thau-peŋ]: (verb) to overturn; (adjective) upside down
- to1theh3 [to-the]: (verb) to retreat, to back off
- toay3 [toe]: (verb) to follow
- toay1snaeh3-eh3 keo2 [toe-sɛ̃-e-kio]: (noun) clan jetty
- tok1 [tok]: (verb) to light up, to burst into flame
- tok3 [tok]: (noun) table
- tok3 [tok]: (particle) emphatic particle
- tok1 cit3-leh2? [tok-tsit-le]: (phrase) "which one?"
- tok1ie4 [tok-i]: (noun) furniture (literally, tables and chairs)
- tok3 si3 [tok-si]: (verb) emphatic form of is/are/was/were
- tok1teng4 [tok-teŋ]: (noun) table
- tok1teng1por3 [tok-teŋ-pɔ]: (noun) table mat
- tok1tnui4 [tok-tuĩ]: (adverb) again, back, in return
- tong3RW [tɔŋ]: (verb) to touch
- tong4 [tɔŋ]: (noun) group, band
- tong3kat3 [tɔŋ-kat]: (noun) walking stick (Malay loanword)
- tong3kim1 [tɔŋ-kim]: (adverb) now
- tong1phai3 [tɔŋ-phai]: (noun) gang
- too1 [tu]: (noun) pig
- too3bak3 [tu-baʔ]: (noun) pork
- too3boey4 [tu-boe]: (noun) pig tail
- too3boh4 [tu-bo]: (noun) swine
- too3boh1 leng1 [tu-bo-leŋ]: (noun) belimbing (Averrhoa bilimbi)
- too3chiu4 [tu-tshiu]: (noun) pig front trotters
- too3cik1 [tu-tsiʔ]: (noun) pig tongue
- too3hoek3 [tu-hoeʔ]: (noun) pig blood
- too3kha1 [tu-kha]: (noun) pig hind trotters
- too3knua1 [tu-kuã]: (noun) pig liver
- too3knua3 ang2 [tu-kuã-aŋ]: (adjective) maroon
- too3nau4 [tu-nau]: (noun) pig brain
- too3sim1 [tu-sim]: (noun) pig heart
- too3thau2 [tu-thau]: (noun) pig's head
- too3tor3 [tu-tɔ]: (noun) pig stomach
- tor2 [tɔ]: (noun) map
- tor3RW [tɔ]: (noun) intestine
- tor3RW [tɔ]: (verb) blot
- tor3cai2 [tɔ-tsai]: (noun) bellybutton
- tor3wa3 [tɔ-ua]: (noun) drawing, painting
- tork1 [tɔk]: (adjective) poisonous, venomous
- tork3 [tɔk]: (verb) to peck (as with chicken), to fleece
- tow3kay1 [thau-kɛ]: (noun) boss, chief, (also written as tau3ke1)
- tu2 [tu]: (noun) cupboard
- tu3 [tu]: (noun) chopsticks
- tu4 [tu]: (verb) to meet
- tu1ho4 [tu-ho]: (adverb) coincidentally
- tu1ku1 [tu-ku]: (adjective) drowsy
- tu1lak1 [tu-lak]: (particle) particle that corresponds to "then", "some more", "too" and "also", see also pu1lak1. (from "pula", Malay loanword)
- tu1tu1ho4 [tu-tu-ho]: (adverb) precisely
- tua1 [tua]: (particle) particle to form the continuous tense ("in the midst of")
- tua3RW [tua]: (noun) tract, pipe, hose
- tua3RW [tua]: (verb) to live, to stay, to be located
- tua3RW [tua]: (adjective) big
- tua3bart1 [tua-bak]: (noun) bigeye scad
- tua3bor4 [tua-bɔ]: (noun) main wife
- tua3ciak3 [tua-tsiak]: (adjective) big sized
- tua3 chia3cam3 [tua-tshia-tsam]: (noun) bus terminal
- tua1ciak3 [se-tsiak]: (adjective) big-sized
- tua3 chee4 [tua-tsi]: (noun) form of address for eldest sister
- tua1ha3 [tua-ha]: (verb) to mourn
- tua1ha3 [tua-ha]: (adjective) mourning
- tua3han3 [tua-han]: (adjective) grown up
- tua3khai3 [tua-khai]: (noun) upper case, big letters
- tua3 ko1 [tua-ko]: (noun) form of address for eldest brother
- tua3kae3lor3 [tua-kɛ-lɔ]: (noun) main road
- tua3kor1 [tua-pɛʔ]: (noun) father's eldest brother's wife
- tua3lang2 [tua-laŋ]: (noun) adult, grown-up
- tua3la1 [tua-la]: (noun) towel
- tua3liap1 [tua-liap]: (adjective) important, high ranking, significant
- tua3liap3charng1 [tua-liap-tshaŋ]: (noun) big onion
- tua3liap3lang2 [tua-liap-laŋ]: (noun) VIP (very important person)
- tua3 larn3pha1 [tua-lan-pha]: (noun) hernia
- tua1 lau2 [tua-lau]: (verb) to be hospitalized
- tua3lor3 [tua-lɔ]: (noun) main road
- tua3ok1 [tua-oʔ]: (noun) university
- tua3pau1 [tua-pau]: (noun) large bun with filling comprising chicken meat and boiled egg, among others
- tua3pek1 [tua-pɛʔ]: (noun) father's eldest brother
- tua3pek1kong1 [tua-pɛʔ-kɔŋ]: (noun) paternal grandfather's eldest brother
- Tua3 Pek1 Kong1 [tua-pɛʔ-kɔŋ]: (noun) Taoist god of prosperity
- tua3 pnua2 [tua-puã]: (noun) dish, serving plate, platter
- tua3 pui2 [tua-pui]: (noun) fatso, fatty
- Tua3 Snua3 Kha1 [tua-suã-kha]: (noun) Bukit Mertajam
- tua3 ti1 [tua-ti]: (prep) to be located at
- tua3thau3keong1 [tua-thau-kiɔŋ]: (noun) tablespoon
- tua3thniah1 [tua-thiã]: (noun) reception hall
- tua3tng2 [tua-tŋ]: (noun) large intestine
- tua3-tua3 [tua-tua]: (adverb) very big
- tua3-tua3 sniah1 [tua-tua-siã]: (adverb) loudly
- tua3 wna1kong1 [tua-uã-kɔŋ]: (noun) tureen
- tui1 [tui]: (verb) to chase
- tui2 [tui]: (verb) to pound, to hammer
- tui3 [tui]: (classifier) classifier for groups of people; (noun) team, group; (preposition) from
- tui1bin3 [tui-bin]: (adverb) across
- tui1bin3 peng2 [tui-bin-peŋ]: (adverb) on the opposite side
- tui3 sim3knua1 [tui-sim-kuã]: (adjective) heart breaking, grievous
- tun1 [tun]: (particle) particle that corresponds to "also", see also pun1 (from "pun", Malay loanword); (adjective) blunt
- u3lam1 [u-lam]: (noun) Malay/Nyonya traditional salad
- u1lu4 [u-lu]: (adjective) rural
- ua4 [ua]: (adjective) near
- ua1 piak3 [ua-piak]: (verb) to lean against the wall
- uan3ong4 [uan-ɔŋ]: (verb) to be wrongly accused
Ie1 uan3ong4 wah4 thau3thaek1 ie1-eh3 chaek3. He wrongly accused me of stealing his book.
- uan3ong4 [uan-ɔŋ]: (adjective) pitiful, unfortunate
Ie1 ka1e3 uan3ong4 nia3 loh4. He is so pitiful.
- uh3RW [u]: (phrase) there is/are; (verb) to have, it forms the negative (not have) using boh2; got
- uh3 boh2 [u-bo]: (expression) is there?
- uh3 cit3 tau4 [u-tsit-tau]: there's once
- uh3 kho1leng2 [u-kho-leŋ]: (adverb) possibly, probably, likely
- uh3 lay1mau3 [u-le-mau]: (adjective) well-mannered, courteous
- uh3 looi1 [u-lui]: (adjective) wealthy, rich
- uh3 looi3 lang2 [u-lui-laŋ]: (noun) rich man
- uh3nya4 [u-ĩa]: (adjective) true
- uh3se3 [u-se]: (adjective) brazen, audacious
- uh3si3-uh3si2 [u-si-u-si]: (phrase) from time to time
- uh3 ti3 [u-ti]: (verb) to be around, to be home
- ui2 [ui]: (verb) to surround
- ui3 [ui]: (noun) place, seat, throne
- ui3 [ui]: (verb) to side, to favour
- un3 [un]: (verb) to dip into a sauce
- un4 [un]: (adjective) assured, definite, safe
- un3tong3 [un-tɔŋ]: (verb) to exercise
- ut3 [ut]: (verb) to iron
- ut1cut3 [ut-tsut]: (adjective) moody, awkward looking, out of place
- ut1tau4 [ut-tau]: (noun) clothes iron
- ut3tiok1 [ut-tioʔ]: (noun) sprain
- wa2 [ua]: (verb) to draw
- wa3RW [ua]: (noun) language, word
- wa4 [ua]: (pronoun) I (first person singular, alternative spelling for wah)
- wah4 [ua]: (pronoun) I (homophone of ua4)
- wah3 [ua]: (interjection) declaration of surprise and/or awe
- wah1lang2 [ua-laŋ]: (pronoun) we (first person plural)
- wak1 [uaʔ]: (adjective) alive
- wan1 [uan]: (verb) to turn
- wan2 [uan]: (noun) meat ball
- wan3cuan2 [uan-tsuan]: (adverb, pronoun) all
- wan3siu2 [uan-siu]: to have a vendetta, to hold a deep grudge, to have a feud
- wan3snui1 [uan-su&297;]: (noun) coriander
- wna4 [uã]: (noun) bowl
- wna3RW [uã]: (verb) to exchange, to change
- wna3RW [uã]: (adjective) late
- wna1chan2 [uã-tsan]: (noun) tiffin carrier
- wna3 chiu1chee4 [uã-tshiu-tsi]: (verb) to be engaged
- wna3 im1 [uã-im]: (grammar) to sandhi
- wna3 liau4-eh3 im1 [uã-liau-e-im]: (grammar) sandhi tone, running tone, modified tone
- wna1tu2 [uã-tu]: (noun) kitchen cupboard
- wna1tu3 [uã-tu]: (noun) dinnerware (literally, bowls and chopsticks)
- ya2 [ya]: (noun) coconut (also spelled as ia2)
- ya2 [ia]: (verb) to take, (also pronounced as gia2)
- ya3RW [ia]: (verb) to scatter (also ia3)
Ya3 tam3pok3 yam2 hor3 thng1 khah1 kiam2. Sprinkle a bit of salt to give the soup more saltiness.
- ya3kang1 [ja-kaŋ]: (noun) centipede (ia3kang1)
- Ya3soh1 [ja-sɔ]: (noun) Jesus (also written as Ia3sor1)
- yam1 [jam]: (verb) to castrate (also written as iam1)
- yam2 [jam]: (noun) salt (also written as iam2)
- yang3RW [jaŋ]: (verb) to piggy back (also written as jang3); (conjunction) that is (Malay loanword)
- yang3RW [jaŋ]: (conjunction) that is (Malay loanword)
- yau1 [jau]: (adjective) hungry (also written as iau1)
- yau1kin4 [jau-kin]: (adjective) important, significant (also written iau1kin4)
- yau3kuai3 [jau-kuai]: (noun) monster
- yau3kui4 [jau-kui]: (noun) glutton (literally, "hungry ghost")
- yau3lo2 [jau-lo]: (adjective) greedy for food
- yau3lo3kui4 [iau-lo-kui]: (noun) glutton
- yew3kam1 [ju-kam]: (noun) cermai (Phyllanthus acidus) (also written iu3kam1)
- yew3wa4 [ju-ua]: (noun) pomelo (also written iu3wa4)
- yio2 [io]: (verb) to shake (also written ioh2)
- yio3na2 [jo-na]: (noun) cradle, cot (also written ioh3na2)
- yio3 thau2 [jo-thau]: (verb) to shake the head (also written ioh3 thau2)
- yong2 [jɔŋ]: (noun) wool
- yong2 [jɔŋ]: (adjective) woolen
- yong3 [jɔŋ]: (verb) to use (also written iong3)
- yong4 [jɔŋ]: (adjective) strong (also written iong4)