"返嚟" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [Chinese]

IPA: /faːn⁵⁵ lɐi̯²¹/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /faːn⁵⁵ lei̯²¹/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /faːn⁵⁵ lɐi̯²¹/, /faːn⁵⁵ lei̯²¹/ Chinese transliterations: faan¹ lai⁴ [Cantonese, Jyutping], faan¹ lei⁴ [Cantonese, Jyutping], fāan làih [Cantonese, Yale], fāan lèih [Cantonese, Yale], faan¹ lai⁴ [Cantonese, Pinyin], faan¹ lei⁴ [Cantonese, Pinyin], fan¹ lei⁴ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization], fan¹ léi⁴ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization]
Head templates: {{zh-verb}} 返嚟
  1. (Cantonese) to come back Tags: Cantonese
    Sense id: en-返嚟-zh-verb-q1iQ4ADF Categories (other): Cantonese Chinese, Chinese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 44 32 24
  2. (Cantonese, after another verb) (to come or bring) back (towards the speaker, by means of the other verb) Tags: Cantonese
    Sense id: en-返嚟-zh-verb-gxj2pjdb Categories (other): Cantonese Chinese
  3. (Cantonese, after another verb) to obtain; to gain (by means of the other verb) Tags: Cantonese
    Sense id: en-返嚟-zh-verb---LsdUqt Categories (other): Cantonese Chinese
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: 歸來 [Classical-Chinese], 回來 [formal, Standard-Chinese], 歸來 [formal, Standard-Chinese], 回來 [Mandarin, Beijing], 回來 [Mandarin, Taiwan], 回來 [Mandarin, Tianjin], 回來 [Mandarin, Luoyang], 回來 [Mandarin, Wanrong], 回來 [Mandarin, Xi'an], 轉來 [Mandarin, Chengdu], 轉來 [Mandarin, Guiyang], 回來 [Mandarin, Guilin], 回來 [Mandarin, Xuzhou], 回來 [Mandarin, Singapore], 返嚟 [Cantonese, Guangzhou], 返嚟 [Cantonese, Hong-Kong], 返來 [Cantonese, Taishan], 返嚟 [Cantonese, Guangfu, Kuala-Lumpur], 返嚟 [Cantonese, Guangfu, Singapore], 轉來 [Hakka, Meixian], 轉來 [Hakka, Dongguan, Qingxi], 轉來 [Hakka], 轉來 [Hakka, Wengyuan], 轉來 [Hakka, Liannan], 轉來 [Hakka, Jiexi], 轉來 [Hakka, Xiuzhuan, Zhao'an], 轉來 [Hakka, Changting], 歸來 [Hakka, Wuping, Yanqian], 轉來 [Hakka, Ninghua], 轉來 [Hakka, Yudu], 歸來 [Hakka, Ningdu], 轉來 [Hakka, Sandu, Tonggu], 歸來 [Hakka, Ganzhou, Panlong], 轉來 [Hakka, Dayu], 轉來 [Hakka, Sixian, Miaoli, Northern], 歸來 [Hakka, Sixian, Pingtung], 轉來 [Hakka, Hsinchu-County], 轉來 [Hakka, Taichung], [Hakka, Hsinchu-County], 轉來 [Hakka, Yunlin], 轉來 [Hakka, Hong-Kong], [Hakka, Mengshan, Xihe], 轉來 [Hakka, Luchuan], 轉來 [Hakka, Huiyang, Senai], 回來 [Jin, Taiyuan], 轉來 [Fuzhou], 轉來 [Xiamen], 倒來 [Xiamen], 轉來 [Quanzhou], 倒來 [Quanzhou], 倒來, 轉來 [Zhangzhou], 轉來 [Tainan], 轉來 [Hokkien, Singapore], 斡來 [Hokkien, Manila], 倒來 [Hokkien, Manila], 翻來 [Hokkien, Manila], 轉來 [Chaozhou], 轉來, 轉來 [Jieyang], 轉來 [Bangkok, Teochew], 轉來 [Johor-Bahru, Teochew], 轉來 [Singapore, Teochew], 回來 [Wu, Shanghai], 轉來 [Wu, Shanghai], 回轉來 [Wu, Shanghai], 轉來 [Wu, Chongming, Shanghai], 轉來 [Wu, Hangzhou], 走來 [Wu, Wenzhou], 轉來 [Xiang, Changsha]

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          "english": "It's so late at night, and my son hasn't come back yet. I'm a bit worried.",
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          "text": "琴日发现呢个教授个学位原来系呃返嚟㗎。 [Cantonese, simp.]\nkam⁴ jat⁶ faat³ jin⁶ ni¹ go³ gaau³ sau⁶ go³ hok⁶ wai⁶⁻² jyun⁴ loi⁴ hai⁶ ngaak¹ faan¹ lai⁴ gaa³. [Jyutping]",
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          "english": "I learned my Chinese from TV dramas.",
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          "text": "我啲中文喺电视剧学返嚟㗎。 [Cantonese, simp.]\nngo⁵ di¹ zung¹ man⁴⁻² hai² din⁶ si⁶ kek⁶ hok⁶ faan¹ lai⁴ gaa³. [Jyutping]",
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      "zh-pron": "faan¹ lei⁴"
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        "Yale"
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      "zh-pron": "fāan làih"
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      "zh-pron": "fāan lèih"
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      "word": "回轉來"
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        "Shanghai"
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      "word": "轉來"
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      "word": "走來"
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        "Changsha"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    }
  ],
  "word": "返嚟"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Chinese verbs"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "返嚟",
      "name": "zh-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese Chinese",
        "Cantonese terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "It's so late at night, and my son hasn't come back yet. I'm a bit worried.",
          "ref": "仔仔咁夜都未返嚟,我有啲擔心。 [Cantonese, trad.]",
          "text": "仔仔咁夜都未返嚟,我有啲担心。 [Cantonese, simp.]\nzai²⁻⁴ zai² gam³ je⁶ dou¹ mei⁶ faan¹ lai⁴ , ngo⁵ jau⁵ di¹ daam¹ sam¹. [Jyutping]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to come back"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "come back",
          "come back"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Cantonese) to come back"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese Chinese",
        "Cantonese terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The cow is walking back [towards the speaker].",
          "ref": "隻牛行緊返嚟。 [Cantonese, trad.]",
          "text": "只牛行紧返嚟。 [Cantonese, simp.]\nzek³ ngau⁴ haang⁴ gan² faan¹ lai⁴ . [Jyutping]",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "My great-aunt brought some snacks back from Mainland China as a gift to us.",
          "ref": "我姨婆喺大陸拎咗啲零食返嚟送畀我哋。 [Cantonese, trad.]",
          "text": "我姨婆喺大陆拎咗啲零食返嚟送畀我哋。 [Cantonese, simp.]\nngo⁵ ji⁴ po⁴ hai² daai⁶ luk⁶ ling¹ zo² di¹ ling⁴ sik⁶ faan¹ lai⁴ sung³ bei² ngo⁵ dei⁶. [Jyutping]",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "My younger brother brought his girlfriend back [home].",
          "ref": "細佬帶咗佢個女朋友返嚟。 [Cantonese, trad.]",
          "text": "细佬带咗佢个女朋友返嚟。 [Cantonese, simp.]\nsai³ lou² daai³ zo² keoi⁵ go³ neoi⁵ pang⁴ jau⁵ faan¹ lai⁴ . [Jyutping]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(to come or bring) back (towards the speaker, by means of the other verb)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "back",
          "back"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Cantonese, after another verb) (to come or bring) back (towards the speaker, by means of the other verb)"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "after another verb"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese Chinese",
        "Cantonese terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Yesterday, they found out that this professor got his degree fraudulently.",
          "ref": "琴日發現呢個教授個學位原來係呃返嚟㗎。 [Cantonese, trad.]",
          "text": "琴日发现呢个教授个学位原来系呃返嚟㗎。 [Cantonese, simp.]\nkam⁴ jat⁶ faat³ jin⁶ ni¹ go³ gaau³ sau⁶ go³ hok⁶ wai⁶⁻² jyun⁴ loi⁴ hai⁶ ngaak¹ faan¹ lai⁴ gaa³. [Jyutping]",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "I learned my Chinese from TV dramas.",
          "ref": "我啲中文喺電視劇學返嚟㗎。 [Cantonese, trad.]",
          "text": "我啲中文喺电视剧学返嚟㗎。 [Cantonese, simp.]\nngo⁵ di¹ zung¹ man⁴⁻² hai² din⁶ si⁶ kek⁶ hok⁶ faan¹ lai⁴ gaa³. [Jyutping]",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Where did you hear that?",
          "ref": "你喺邊度聽返嚟㗎? [Cantonese, trad.]",
          "text": "你喺边度听返嚟㗎? [Cantonese, simp.]\nnei⁵ hai² bin¹ dou⁶ teng¹ faan¹ lai⁴ gaa³? [Jyutping]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to obtain; to gain (by means of the other verb)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "obtain",
          "obtain"
        ],
        [
          "gain",
          "gain"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Cantonese, after another verb) to obtain; to gain (by means of the other verb)"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "after another verb"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "faan¹ lai⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "faan¹ lei⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "fāan làih"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "fāan lèih"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "faan¹ lai⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "faan¹ lei⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "fan¹ lei⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "fan¹ léi⁴"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/faːn⁵⁵ lɐi̯²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/faːn⁵⁵ lei̯²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/faːn⁵⁵ lɐi̯²¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/faːn⁵⁵ lei̯²¹/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Chinese"
      ],
      "word": "歸來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "Standard-Chinese"
      ],
      "word": "回來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "Standard-Chinese"
      ],
      "word": "歸來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Beijing"
      ],
      "word": "回來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Taiwan"
      ],
      "word": "回來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tianjin"
      ],
      "word": "回來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Luoyang"
      ],
      "word": "回來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wanrong"
      ],
      "word": "回來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Xi'an"
      ],
      "word": "回來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Chengdu"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Guiyang"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Guilin"
      ],
      "word": "回來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Xuzhou"
      ],
      "word": "回來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Singapore"
      ],
      "word": "回來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou"
      ],
      "word": "返嚟"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Hong-Kong"
      ],
      "word": "返嚟"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Taishan"
      ],
      "word": "返來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangfu",
        "Kuala-Lumpur"
      ],
      "word": "返嚟"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangfu",
        "Singapore"
      ],
      "word": "返嚟"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meixian"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Dongguan",
        "Qingxi"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Wengyuan"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Liannan"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Jiexi"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Xiuzhuan",
        "Zhao'an"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Changting"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Wuping",
        "Yanqian"
      ],
      "word": "歸來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Ninghua"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Yudu"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Ningdu"
      ],
      "word": "歸來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Sandu",
        "Tonggu"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Ganzhou",
        "Panlong"
      ],
      "word": "歸來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Dayu"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Sixian",
        "Miaoli",
        "Northern"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Sixian",
        "Pingtung"
      ],
      "word": "歸來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hsinchu-County"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Taichung"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hsinchu-County"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hsinchu-County"
      ],
      "word": "轉"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Yunlin"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hong-Kong"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Mengshan",
        "Xihe"
      ],
      "word": "轉"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Luchuan"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Huiyang",
        "Senai"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Jin",
        "Taiyuan"
      ],
      "word": "回來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Fuzhou"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Xiamen"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Xiamen"
      ],
      "word": "倒來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Quanzhou"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Quanzhou"
      ],
      "word": "倒來"
    },
    {
      "word": "倒來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Zhangzhou"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Tainan"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Singapore"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Manila"
      ],
      "word": "斡來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Manila"
      ],
      "word": "倒來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Manila"
      ],
      "word": "翻來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Chaozhou"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Jieyang"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Bangkok",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Johor-Bahru",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Singapore",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Shanghai"
      ],
      "word": "回來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Shanghai"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Shanghai"
      ],
      "word": "回轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Chongming",
        "Shanghai"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Hangzhou"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Wenzhou"
      ],
      "word": "走來"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Xiang",
        "Changsha"
      ],
      "word": "轉來"
    }
  ],
  "word": "返嚟"
}

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