"做嘢" meaning in Chinese

See 做嘢 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /t͡sou̯²² jɛː¹³/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA] Forms: 做⫽嘢 [canonical]
Head templates: {{zh-verb|type=vo}} 做⫽嘢 (verb-object)
  1. (Cantonese) to work; to do things Tags: Cantonese, verb-object
    Sense id: en-做嘢-zh-verb-hZxokC8D Categories (other): Cantonese Chinese, Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Synonyms: 工作 [formal, Written-vernacular-Chinese], 幹活 [formal, Written-vernacular-Chinese], 幹活兒 [Northeastern-Mandarin, Beijing], 工作 [Northeastern-Mandarin, Taiwan], 做工 [Northeastern-Mandarin, Singapore], 做工 [Cantonese, Guangzhou], 做工 [Cantonese, Taishan], 做工 [Cantonese, Singapore, Guangfu], 做事 [Gan, Nanchang], 做事 [Hakka, Meixian], 做事 [Hakka, Miaoli], 做事 [Hakka, Pingtung, Neipu], 做事 [Hakka, Zhudong, Hailu], 做事 [Hakka, Taichung, Dongshi, Dabu], 做事 [Hakka, Qionglin, Raoping], 做事 [Hakka, Yunlin, Lunbei, Zhao'an], 做事計 [Min-Dong, Fuzhou], 做穡 [Min-Nan, Xiamen], 做工課 [Min-Nan, Xiamen], 作穡 [Min-Nan, Jinjiang], 作穡 [Min-Nan, Taipei], 作穡 [Min-Nan], 作穡的 [Min-Nan, Kaohsiung], 作穡 [Min-Nan, Yilan], 作穡 [Min-Nan, Lukang], 做工課 [Min-Nan, Taichung], 作穡 [Min-Nan, Taichung], 作穡 [Min-Nan, Tainan], 做工仔 [Min-Nan], 做穡 [Min-Nan], 做工 [Min-Nan, Kinmen], 做穡 [Min-Nan], 做工 [Min-Nan, Penang, Hokkien], 做工 [Min-Nan, Singapore, Hokkien], 作穡 [Min-Nan, Manila, Hokkien], 做工 [Min-Nan, Manila, Hokkien], 做頭路 [Min-Nan, Manila, Hokkien], 做工 [Min-Nan], 做事 [Min-Nan], 做工課 [Min-Nan], 做工 [Min-Nan, Singapore, Teochew], 做工 [Min-Nan, Singapore, Hainanese], 做工 [Southern-Pinghua, Nanning, Tingzi]
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "做⫽嘢",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "type": "vo"
      },
      "expansion": "做⫽嘢 (verb-object)",
      "name": "zh-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Cantonese Chinese",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to work; to do things"
      ],
      "id": "en-做嘢-zh-verb-hZxokC8D",
      "links": [
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Cantonese) to work; to do things"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "formal",
            "Written-vernacular-Chinese"
          ],
          "word": "工作"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "formal",
            "Written-vernacular-Chinese"
          ],
          "word": "幹活"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Northeastern-Mandarin",
            "Beijing"
          ],
          "word": "幹活兒"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Northeastern-Mandarin",
            "Taiwan"
          ],
          "word": "工作"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Northeastern-Mandarin",
            "Singapore"
          ],
          "word": "做工"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese",
            "Guangzhou"
          ],
          "word": "做工"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese",
            "Taishan"
          ],
          "word": "做工"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese",
            "Singapore",
            "Guangfu"
          ],
          "word": "做工"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Gan",
            "Nanchang"
          ],
          "word": "做事"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Meixian"
          ],
          "word": "做事"
        },
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "N. Sixian"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Miaoli"
          ],
          "word": "做事"
        },
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "S. Sixian"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Pingtung",
            "Neipu"
          ],
          "word": "做事"
        },
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "Hsinchu County"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Zhudong",
            "Hailu"
          ],
          "word": "做事"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Taichung",
            "Dongshi",
            "Dabu"
          ],
          "word": "做事"
        },
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "Hsinchu County"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Qionglin",
            "Raoping"
          ],
          "word": "做事"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Yunlin",
            "Lunbei",
            "Zhao'an"
          ],
          "word": "做事"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Dong",
            "Fuzhou"
          ],
          "word": "做事計"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Xiamen"
          ],
          "word": "做穡"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Xiamen"
          ],
          "word": "做工課"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Jinjiang"
          ],
          "word": "作穡"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Taipei"
          ],
          "word": "作穡"
        },
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "New Taipei",
            "Sanxia"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan"
          ],
          "word": "作穡"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Kaohsiung"
          ],
          "word": "作穡的"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Yilan"
          ],
          "word": "作穡"
        },
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "Changhua"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Lukang"
          ],
          "word": "作穡"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Taichung"
          ],
          "word": "做工課"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Taichung"
          ],
          "word": "作穡"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Tainan"
          ],
          "word": "作穡"
        },
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "Hsinchu"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan"
          ],
          "word": "做工仔"
        },
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "Hsinchu"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan"
          ],
          "word": "做穡"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Kinmen"
          ],
          "word": "做工"
        },
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "Penghu",
            "Magong"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan"
          ],
          "word": "做穡"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Penang",
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "做工"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Singapore",
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "做工"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Manila",
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "作穡"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Manila",
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "做工"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Manila",
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "做頭路"
        },
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "Shantou"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan"
          ],
          "word": "做工"
        },
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "Shantou"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan"
          ],
          "word": "做事"
        },
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "Shantou"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan"
          ],
          "word": "做工課"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Singapore",
            "Teochew"
          ],
          "word": "做工"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Min-Nan",
            "Singapore",
            "Hainanese"
          ],
          "word": "做工"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Southern-Pinghua",
            "Nanning",
            "Tingzi"
          ],
          "word": "做工"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "verb-object"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "zou⁶ je⁵"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "zou⁶ je⁵"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jouh yéh"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "dzou⁶ je⁵"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "zou⁶ yé⁵"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sou̯²² jɛː¹³/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "做嘢"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "做⫽嘢",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "type": "vo"
      },
      "expansion": "做⫽嘢 (verb-object)",
      "name": "zh-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese Chinese",
        "Cantonese lemmas",
        "Cantonese verbs",
        "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Chinese lemmas",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 做",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 嘢",
        "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Chinese verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to work; to do things"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Cantonese) to work; to do things"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "verb-object"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "zou⁶ je⁵"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "zou⁶ je⁵"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jouh yéh"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "dzou⁶ je⁵"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "zou⁶ yé⁵"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sou̯²² jɛː¹³/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "Written-vernacular-Chinese"
      ],
      "word": "工作"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "Written-vernacular-Chinese"
      ],
      "word": "幹活"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Northeastern-Mandarin",
        "Beijing"
      ],
      "word": "幹活兒"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Northeastern-Mandarin",
        "Taiwan"
      ],
      "word": "工作"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Northeastern-Mandarin",
        "Singapore"
      ],
      "word": "做工"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou"
      ],
      "word": "做工"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Taishan"
      ],
      "word": "做工"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Singapore",
        "Guangfu"
      ],
      "word": "做工"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gan",
        "Nanchang"
      ],
      "word": "做事"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meixian"
      ],
      "word": "做事"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "N. Sixian"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Miaoli"
      ],
      "word": "做事"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "S. Sixian"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Pingtung",
        "Neipu"
      ],
      "word": "做事"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Hsinchu County"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Zhudong",
        "Hailu"
      ],
      "word": "做事"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Taichung",
        "Dongshi",
        "Dabu"
      ],
      "word": "做事"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Hsinchu County"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Qionglin",
        "Raoping"
      ],
      "word": "做事"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Yunlin",
        "Lunbei",
        "Zhao'an"
      ],
      "word": "做事"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Dong",
        "Fuzhou"
      ],
      "word": "做事計"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Xiamen"
      ],
      "word": "做穡"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Xiamen"
      ],
      "word": "做工課"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Jinjiang"
      ],
      "word": "作穡"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Taipei"
      ],
      "word": "作穡"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "New Taipei",
        "Sanxia"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan"
      ],
      "word": "作穡"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ],
      "word": "作穡的"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Yilan"
      ],
      "word": "作穡"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Changhua"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Lukang"
      ],
      "word": "作穡"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Taichung"
      ],
      "word": "做工課"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Taichung"
      ],
      "word": "作穡"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Tainan"
      ],
      "word": "作穡"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Hsinchu"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan"
      ],
      "word": "做工仔"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Hsinchu"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan"
      ],
      "word": "做穡"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Kinmen"
      ],
      "word": "做工"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Penghu",
        "Magong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan"
      ],
      "word": "做穡"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Penang",
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "做工"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Singapore",
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "做工"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Manila",
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "作穡"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Manila",
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "做工"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Manila",
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "做頭路"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Shantou"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan"
      ],
      "word": "做工"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Shantou"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan"
      ],
      "word": "做事"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Shantou"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan"
      ],
      "word": "做工課"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Singapore",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "word": "做工"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Singapore",
        "Hainanese"
      ],
      "word": "做工"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Southern-Pinghua",
        "Nanning",
        "Tingzi"
      ],
      "word": "做工"
    }
  ],
  "word": "做嘢"
}

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