The Chinese word for to wink is
使眼色
shǐ yǎn sèChinese Definition
wink | |
1. 结婚仪式 | |
2. 婚礼 | |
3. 结婚纪念日 | |
4. 见 | |
5. 眨眼 | |
6. 眨眼睛 | |
7. 眨 | |
Components | |
使 | |
1. to order (somebody to do something); to send (somebody) | |
2. (literary) to put (people) to work | |
3. to let; to make; to cause to | |
這 突如其來 的 消息 使 他 大為wéi 震驚。 - This sudden news caused him great shock. | |
4. to use; to employ | |
呢 把 刀 幾 好 使sai2 - This knife is pretty good to use. | |
5. to play; to play with; to resort to; to dally with | |
使.心眼 - | |
6. to indulge | |
使.性子zi - to get angry; to lose one's temper | |
7. (literary) if | |
8. (Cantonese, always negated or interrogative) need to do something; have to | |
你 唔使 攞lo2 咁 多! - You don't need to get so much! | |
你 陣間 使 唔 使 落街 買 嘢 呀aa3? - Do you need to use head out to buy things later? | |
仲 使 講 嘅ge2? - Surely it goes without saying. | |
9. (Cantonese, always negated or interrogative) need something; require; want strongly | |
10. (Quanzhou Min Nan, vulgar) to fuck | |
11. to be sent as an envoy | |
12. envoy; messenger | |
來使 - envoy from another country | |
眼 | |
1. (anatomy) eye | |
2. sight; vision | |
瞪 了 他 一 眼 - to give him a stare | |
一 眼 睇 嗮 - to be able to see everything in a glance | |
3. eyelet; aperture; hole; opening | |
4. tempo in the opera | |
一板三眼 - one strong beat and three weak beats in the four-beat rhythm | |
5. territory in game Go (board game). | |
6. mesh | |
7. key point; critical moment | |
8. (Go) trap | |
9. (Cantonese, mahjong) two identical tiles which are an essential part of a legal winning hand | |
10. (Cantonese) | |
色 | |
1. color; tint; hue; shade | |
顏色 - color | |
顏色shǎi兒r - color | |
紅色 - red | |
四.色.定理 - four color theorem | |
2. look; expression | |
臉色 - facial expression | |
3. scenery; circumstance | |
景色 - scenery | |
夜色 - night scenery | |
4. kind; sort | |
貨色 - goods; stuff; trash; rubbish; quality of goods; specification | |
5. feminine charm; beauty | |
姿色 - good looks (of women) | |
6. lust; sexual desire | |
好hào色 - to lust for women | |
色情 - pornography; sexual desire | |
7. (colloquial) perverted; being a pervert; lecherous | |
8. theatrical role | |
角jué色 - role; part | |
9. metallic content | |
成色 - purity (of a precious metal in an alloy) | |
10. die (a cube with numbers or symbols on each side, used in games of chance) | |
色shǎi子zi - die | |
11. (Buddhism) (l-lite, pi, rūpa) (form; material element; form of existence; etc.) | |
色 即 是 空,空 即 是 色。 - Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. | |
12. (transgender slang) Short for 色普龍; cypro (cyproterone acetate) |
Translations for 色 and their definitions
眨眼 | |
1. adv. in a blink | |
2. v. to wink; to blink |
眨眼睛 | |
1. v. to wink |
眨 | |
1. to blink; to wink | |
佢 碰見 猛男,對 眼 會 猛咁 眨 - If she encounters a hunk, her eyes will bat non-stop | |
2. (Hakka) to close one's eyes |
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