Cantonese Dictionary

院長

jyun6*2 zoeng2

Mandarin: yuan4 zhang3

head of a faculty; head of a department in a college; director of an institute; dean; school president; university chancellor; college principal

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陰

jam3

Mandarin: yin1

Simplified: 阴

the alternative form for 蔭, shade | shelter | # adapted from cc-cedict

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陰上

jam1 soeng5

Mandarin: yin1 shang3

dark rising tone, referring to tone 2 in Cantonese.

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陰乾

jam1 gon1

Mandarin: yin1gan1

Simplified: 阴干

(verb) To dry up something slowly (usually it refers to food preparation, but sometimes it is used on persons, that means to take away or use up the person's money slowly. Used before a name or a pronoun.)

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陰入

jam1 jap6

Mandarin: yin1 ru4

dark entering tone, referring to tone 7 (or 1 with a final stop consonant) or 8 (or 3 with a final stop consonant) in Cantonese.

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陰公

jam1 gung1

Mandarin: yin1 gong1

Simplified: 阴公

poor him | her (spoken)

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陰冷

jam1 laang5*1

gloomy and cold; raw; dank; (fig.) somber, glum

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陰功

jam1 gung1

Mandarin: yin1 gong1

Simplified: 阴功

(exclamation) my goodness!; (adjective) 1. poor; 2. Pitiable; 3. sinful

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陰功鬼

jam1 gung1 gwai2

Mandarin: yin1 gong1 gui3

Simplified: 阴功鬼

a wicked and unsrupulous person

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陰去

jam1 heoi3

Mandarin: yin1 qu4

dark departing tone, referring to tone 3 in Cantonese.

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陰司

jam1 si1

Cantonese

Hell; the Judges of Hell

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陰司紙

jam1 si1 zi2

Mandarin: yin1 si1 zhi3

Simplified: 阴司纸

money offerings for the dead

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陰囊

jam1 nong4

Mandarin: yin1 nang2

scrotum | [粵]: 春袋

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陰天

jam1 tin1

Mandarin: yin1 tian1

coudy day; overcast sky

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陰平

jam1 ping4

Mandarin: yin1 ping2

dark level tone, referring to tone 1 in Cantonese.

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陰影

jam1 jing2

Mandarin: yin1ying3

Simplified: 阴影

(noun) (of medicine) Black spot; (of bad influence) shadow

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陰德

jam1 dak1

[n][adj] secret merit; merit acquired by ancestors for their offspring; conscience, conscientious

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陰性

jam1 sing3

Mandarin: yin1 xing4

also 雌性

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陰戶

jam1 wu6

Mandarin: yin1 hu4

vulva; vaginal orifice | Coll. Mand.: 屄 (taboo!) | Coll. Cant.: 閪 (taboo!)

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陰文

jam1 man4

Mandarin: yin1 wen2

Simplified: 阴文

characters cut in intaglio

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陰晦

jam1 fui3

Mandarin: yin1 hui4

[adj] overcast

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陰暗

jam1 am3

Mandarin: yin1 an4

dim; sombre (US: somber) | [粵]: 翳 (ai3)

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陰曆

jam1 lik6

lunar calendar; Chinese calendar

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陰柔

jam1 jau4

Mandarin: yin1 rou2

womanish; effeminate; sissy | [antonym] 陽剛

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陰核

jam1 wat6

Mandarin: yin1 he2

Simplified: 阴核

clitoris

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陰森

jam1 sam1

Mandarin: yin1 sen1

gloomy, eerie

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陰極

jam1 gik6

Mandarin: jin1 ji2

cathode; negative pole, negative electrode

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陰極射線

jam1 gik6 se6 sin3

Mandarin: yin1 ji2 she4 xian4

Simplified: 阴极射线

cathode ray

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陰毒

jam1 duk6

(person) vicious with a friendly exterior; insidious; sinister

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陰毛

jam1 mou4

Mandarin: yin1 mao2

pubes; pubic hair

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