The Chinese word for dog is
狗
gǒu
Chinese Definition
| dog | |
| 1. 名词. 狗 |
Translations for dog and their definitions
| 狗 | |
| 1. dog | |
| 餵 狗 - to feed a dog | |
| 累lèi 成 狗 - extremely tired cf. dog-tired | |
| 2. (derogatory) something or someone unpleasant | |
| 3. (Used as an attributive.) | |
| 4. 狗 男女 - couple in an illicit love affair | |
| 5. 狗官 - government official | |
| 6. 看 老娘 錘 爆 你 的 狗 頭！ - See how I hammer you in your goddamn head! | |
| 7. (self-deprecatory) a miserable person ((used in compounds)) | |
| 8. 單身狗 - singleton | |
| 9. IT 狗 - a person working in the IT industry | |
| 10. (Hong Kong, neologism, derogatory) police; pig; po-po | |
| 11. (chiefly Beijing) to flatter | |
| 12. (Cantonese) cunning | |
| 13. (obsolete) cub; young bear or tiger |
| 犬 | |
| 1. (formal or in compounds or Min Dong, Waxiang, dialectal Wu) dog | |
| 警犬 - police dog |
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