"sorry" meaning in Chinese

See sorry in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Interjection

Etymology: From English sorry. Etymology templates: {{bor|yue|en|sorry}} English sorry
  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Singapore Hokkien, Penang Hokkien, colloquial) sorry Tags: Cantonese, Hokkien, Hong-Kong, Penang-Hokkien, Singapore, colloquial
    Sense id: en-sorry-zh-intj-SEqrLyzQ Categories (other): Chinese terms written in foreign scripts, Hong Kong Cantonese, Penang Hokkien, Singapore Hokkien Synonyms: 對不起 [formal, Standard-Chinese], 對不起 [Mandarin, Beijing], 對不起 [Mandarin, Taiwan], 對不起 [Mandarin, Malaysia], 對不起 [Mandarin, Singapore], 對唔住 [Cantonese, Guangzhou], 對唔住 [Cantonese, Hong-Kong], sorry [Cantonese, Hong-Kong], sor informal [Cantonese, Hong-Kong], 對唔住 [Cantonese, Taishan], 對唔住 [Cantonese, Guangfu, Kuala-Lumpur], 對唔住 [Cantonese, Guangfu, Singapore], 對唔住 [Hakka, Meixian], 失禮 [Hakka, Sixian, Miaoli, Northern], 敗勢 [Hakka, Sixian, Miaoli, Northern], 斯里麻生 [Hakka, Sixian, Miaoli, Northern], 失禮 [Hakka, Sixian, Pingtung], 壞勢 [Hakka, Sixian, Pingtung], 斯里麻生 [Hakka, Sixian, Pingtung], 失禮 [Hakka, Hsinchu-County], 敗勢 [Hakka, Hsinchu-County], 斯里麻生 [Hakka, Hsinchu-County], 失禮 [Hakka, Taichung], 敗勢 [Hakka, Taichung], 歪勢 [Hakka, Taichung], 斯里麻生 [Hakka, Taichung], 失禮 [Hakka, Yunlin], 歹勢 [Hakka, Yunlin], 斯里麻生 [Hakka, Yunlin], 敗勢 [Hakka, Dabu, Singapore], 對不起 [Jin, Taiyuan], 對不住, 歹勢 [Xiamen], 對不住 [Xiamen], 失禮 [Xiamen], 歹勢 [Quanzhou], 對不住 [Quanzhou], 䆀勢 [Zhangzhou], 對不住 [Zhangzhou], 失禮 [Taipei], 歹勢 [Taipei], 失禮, 失禮 [Kaohsiung], 歹勢 [Kaohsiung], 失禮 [Yilan], 失禮 [Lukang], 歹勢 [Lukang], 失禮 [Taichung], 失禮 [Tainan], 歹勢 [Tainan], 歹勢, 失禮 [Kinmen], 歹勢 [Hokkien, Penang], sorry [Hokkien, Penang], 歹勢 [Hokkien, Singapore], 對毋住 [Hokkien, Singapore], sorry [Hokkien, Singapore], 歹勢 [Hokkien, Manila], 對不住 [Hokkien, Manila], 對唔住 [Chaozhou], 對唔住, 對唔住 [Singapore, Teochew], 歹勢 [Singapore, Teochew], 勿好意思 [Wu, Shanghai], 對勿起 [Wu, Shanghai], 對弗起 [Wu, Suzhou], 對勿住 [Wu], 交代勿過 [Wu, Ningbo], 勿好意思 [Wu, Ningbo], 對不住 [Xiang, Changsha]

Download JSON data for sorry meaning in Chinese (4.4kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yue",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "sorry"
      },
      "expansion": "English sorry",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From English sorry.",
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese terms written in foreign scripts",
          "parents": [
            "Terms written in foreign scripts",
            "Terms by orthographic property",
            "Terms by lexical property"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Hong Kong Cantonese",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Penang Hokkien",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Singapore Hokkien",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sorry"
      ],
      "id": "en-sorry-zh-intj-SEqrLyzQ",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Hong Kong Cantonese, Singapore Hokkien, Penang Hokkien, colloquial) sorry"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "formal",
            "Standard-Chinese"
          ],
          "word": "對不起"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Mandarin",
            "Beijing"
          ],
          "word": "對不起"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Mandarin",
            "Taiwan"
          ],
          "word": "對不起"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Mandarin",
            "Malaysia"
          ],
          "word": "對不起"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Mandarin",
            "Singapore"
          ],
          "word": "對不起"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese",
            "Guangzhou"
          ],
          "word": "對唔住"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese",
            "Hong-Kong"
          ],
          "word": "對唔住"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese",
            "Hong-Kong"
          ],
          "word": "sorry"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese",
            "Hong-Kong"
          ],
          "word": "sor informal"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese",
            "Taishan"
          ],
          "word": "對唔住"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese",
            "Guangfu",
            "Kuala-Lumpur"
          ],
          "word": "對唔住"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese",
            "Guangfu",
            "Singapore"
          ],
          "word": "對唔住"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Meixian"
          ],
          "word": "對唔住"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Sixian",
            "Miaoli",
            "Northern"
          ],
          "word": "失禮"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Sixian",
            "Miaoli",
            "Northern"
          ],
          "word": "敗勢"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Sixian",
            "Miaoli",
            "Northern"
          ],
          "word": "斯里麻生"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Sixian",
            "Pingtung"
          ],
          "word": "失禮"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Sixian",
            "Pingtung"
          ],
          "word": "壞勢"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Sixian",
            "Pingtung"
          ],
          "word": "斯里麻生"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Hsinchu-County"
          ],
          "word": "失禮"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Hsinchu-County"
          ],
          "word": "敗勢"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Hsinchu-County"
          ],
          "word": "斯里麻生"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Taichung"
          ],
          "word": "失禮"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Taichung"
          ],
          "word": "敗勢"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Taichung"
          ],
          "word": "歪勢"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Taichung"
          ],
          "word": "斯里麻生"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Yunlin"
          ],
          "word": "失禮"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Yunlin"
          ],
          "word": "歹勢"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Yunlin"
          ],
          "word": "斯里麻生"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hakka",
            "Dabu",
            "Singapore"
          ],
          "word": "敗勢"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Jin",
            "Taiyuan"
          ],
          "word": "對不起"
        },
        {
          "word": "對不住"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Xiamen"
          ],
          "word": "歹勢"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Xiamen"
          ],
          "word": "對不住"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Xiamen"
          ],
          "word": "失禮"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Quanzhou"
          ],
          "word": "歹勢"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Quanzhou"
          ],
          "word": "對不住"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Zhangzhou"
          ],
          "word": "䆀勢"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Zhangzhou"
          ],
          "word": "對不住"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Taipei"
          ],
          "word": "失禮"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Taipei"
          ],
          "word": "歹勢"
        },
        {
          "word": "失禮"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Kaohsiung"
          ],
          "word": "失禮"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Kaohsiung"
          ],
          "word": "歹勢"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Yilan"
          ],
          "word": "失禮"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Lukang"
          ],
          "word": "失禮"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Lukang"
          ],
          "word": "歹勢"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Taichung"
          ],
          "word": "失禮"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Tainan"
          ],
          "word": "失禮"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Tainan"
          ],
          "word": "歹勢"
        },
        {
          "word": "歹勢"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Kinmen"
          ],
          "word": "失禮"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien",
            "Penang"
          ],
          "word": "歹勢"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien",
            "Penang"
          ],
          "word": "sorry"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien",
            "Singapore"
          ],
          "word": "歹勢"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien",
            "Singapore"
          ],
          "word": "對毋住"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien",
            "Singapore"
          ],
          "word": "sorry"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien",
            "Manila"
          ],
          "word": "歹勢"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien",
            "Manila"
          ],
          "word": "對不住"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Chaozhou"
          ],
          "word": "對唔住"
        },
        {
          "word": "對唔住"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Singapore",
            "Teochew"
          ],
          "word": "對唔住"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Singapore",
            "Teochew"
          ],
          "word": "歹勢"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Wu",
            "Shanghai"
          ],
          "word": "勿好意思"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Wu",
            "Shanghai"
          ],
          "word": "對勿起"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Wu",
            "Suzhou"
          ],
          "word": "對弗起"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Wu"
          ],
          "word": "對勿住"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Wu",
            "Ningbo"
          ],
          "word": "交代勿過"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Wu",
            "Ningbo"
          ],
          "word": "勿好意思"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Xiang",
            "Changsha"
          ],
          "word": "對不住"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Hokkien",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Penang-Hokkien",
        "Singapore",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [],
  "word": "sorry"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yue",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "sorry"
      },
      "expansion": "English sorry",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From English sorry.",
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese terms borrowed from English",
        "Cantonese terms derived from English",
        "Cantonese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Chinese colloquialisms",
        "Chinese interjections",
        "Chinese lemmas",
        "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Chinese terms written in foreign scripts",
        "Hong Kong Cantonese",
        "Penang Hokkien",
        "Singapore Hokkien"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sorry"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Hong Kong Cantonese, Singapore Hokkien, Penang Hokkien, colloquial) sorry"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Hokkien",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Penang-Hokkien",
        "Singapore",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "Standard-Chinese"
      ],
      "word": "對不起"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Beijing"
      ],
      "word": "對不起"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Taiwan"
      ],
      "word": "對不起"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Malaysia"
      ],
      "word": "對不起"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Singapore"
      ],
      "word": "對不起"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou"
      ],
      "word": "對唔住"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Hong-Kong"
      ],
      "word": "對唔住"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Hong-Kong"
      ],
      "word": "sorry"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Hong-Kong"
      ],
      "word": "sor informal"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Taishan"
      ],
      "word": "對唔住"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangfu",
        "Kuala-Lumpur"
      ],
      "word": "對唔住"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangfu",
        "Singapore"
      ],
      "word": "對唔住"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meixian"
      ],
      "word": "對唔住"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Sixian",
        "Miaoli",
        "Northern"
      ],
      "word": "失禮"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Sixian",
        "Miaoli",
        "Northern"
      ],
      "word": "敗勢"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Sixian",
        "Miaoli",
        "Northern"
      ],
      "word": "斯里麻生"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Sixian",
        "Pingtung"
      ],
      "word": "失禮"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Sixian",
        "Pingtung"
      ],
      "word": "壞勢"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Sixian",
        "Pingtung"
      ],
      "word": "斯里麻生"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hsinchu-County"
      ],
      "word": "失禮"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hsinchu-County"
      ],
      "word": "敗勢"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hsinchu-County"
      ],
      "word": "斯里麻生"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Taichung"
      ],
      "word": "失禮"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Taichung"
      ],
      "word": "敗勢"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Taichung"
      ],
      "word": "歪勢"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Taichung"
      ],
      "word": "斯里麻生"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hsinchu-County"
      ],
      "word": "失禮"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hsinchu-County"
      ],
      "word": "敗勢"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hsinchu-County"
      ],
      "word": "斯里麻生"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Yunlin"
      ],
      "word": "失禮"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Yunlin"
      ],
      "word": "歹勢"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Yunlin"
      ],
      "word": "斯里麻生"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Dabu",
        "Singapore"
      ],
      "word": "敗勢"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Jin",
        "Taiyuan"
      ],
      "word": "對不起"
    },
    {
      "word": "對不住"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Xiamen"
      ],
      "word": "歹勢"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Xiamen"
      ],
      "word": "對不住"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Xiamen"
      ],
      "word": "失禮"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Quanzhou"
      ],
      "word": "歹勢"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Quanzhou"
      ],
      "word": "對不住"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Zhangzhou"
      ],
      "word": "䆀勢"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Zhangzhou"
      ],
      "word": "對不住"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Taipei"
      ],
      "word": "失禮"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Taipei"
      ],
      "word": "歹勢"
    },
    {
      "word": "失禮"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Kaohsiung"
      ],
      "word": "失禮"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Kaohsiung"
      ],
      "word": "歹勢"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Yilan"
      ],
      "word": "失禮"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Lukang"
      ],
      "word": "失禮"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Lukang"
      ],
      "word": "歹勢"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Taichung"
      ],
      "word": "失禮"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Taichung"
      ],
      "word": "失禮"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Tainan"
      ],
      "word": "失禮"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Tainan"
      ],
      "word": "歹勢"
    },
    {
      "word": "歹勢"
    },
    {
      "word": "失禮"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Kinmen"
      ],
      "word": "失禮"
    },
    {
      "word": "失禮"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Penang"
      ],
      "word": "歹勢"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Penang"
      ],
      "word": "sorry"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Singapore"
      ],
      "word": "歹勢"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Singapore"
      ],
      "word": "對毋住"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Singapore"
      ],
      "word": "sorry"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Manila"
      ],
      "word": "歹勢"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Manila"
      ],
      "word": "對不住"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Chaozhou"
      ],
      "word": "對唔住"
    },
    {
      "word": "對唔住"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Singapore",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "word": "對唔住"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Singapore",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "word": "歹勢"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Shanghai"
      ],
      "word": "勿好意思"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Shanghai"
      ],
      "word": "對勿起"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Suzhou"
      ],
      "word": "對弗起"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
      "word": "對勿住"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Ningbo"
      ],
      "word": "交代勿過"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu",
        "Ningbo"
      ],
      "word": "勿好意思"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Xiang",
        "Changsha"
      ],
      "word": "對不住"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sorry"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.