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走歸左zau2 gwai1 zo2to go astray; to fall into the wrong path; to be misguided; to be misled; to go off the track; to take a wrong step in life走油zau2 jau4to fry (food) lightly走法律罅zau2 faat3 leot6 laa3(phrasal verb) to try to get or achieve something by taking advantage of the grey area of the rules or law; to exploit the legal loopholes走漏風聲zau2 lau6 fung1 sing1to let out a secret; to leak (out) information走火入魔zau2 fo2 jap6 mo1to be overly obsessed with something to the point of losing one's senses走火zau2 fo2to escape from fire走火通道zau2 fo2 tung1 dou6fire exit door; fire escape route走狗zau2 gau2traitor走甩zau2 lat1to manage to escape or flee from someone走白牌zau2 baak6 paai4unauthorised usage of a vehicle for goods or public transportation (spoken)走盞zau2 zaan2space for compromising (spoken)走粉zau2 fan2heroin trafficking (spoken)走精面zau2 zing1 min6taking an unauthorised shortcut (spoken)走zau2(verb) to miss (deals, opportunity)走趯zau2 dek3(v.) to rush around; to be busy running about走趲zau2 zaan2flexibility (spoken)走雞zau2 gai1(slang) to miss out on an exclusive deal ; bargain ; chance ; opportunity走難zau2 naan6(verb) to run away from a catastrophe; disaster走電zau2 din6current leakage走頭zau2 tau4to go away; to flee; to run off走鬼zau2 gwai2unlicensed street stall vendors to escape from officers (Cantonese)赴難fu6 naan6to get involved in danger to save the country起上嚟hei2 soeng5 lai4(after a verb) indicating an upward movement; (after a verb or adjective) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state起五更hei2 ng5 gaang1to get up in the early hours of the morning when it is nearly dawn.起作用hei2 zok3 jung6to start working; to kick in起來hei2 loi4to rise; arise起勢噉hei2 sai3 gam2continuously; nonstop; to go all out to do something; vigorously起勢hei2 sai3to endeavour to do something起嚟hei2 lai4when (spoken)起字容hei2 zi6 jung4to reveal something about someone (usually big secrets); to dig up some information about someone; to get to the bottom of something起尾注hei2 mei5 zyu3to set a trap and await the right opportunity to strip someone of all they have in one go; to enjoy the fruits of somebody else's labour起屋hei2 uk1building a house