差 (caa1) — errand boy; messenger; runner in Cantonese

caaˉ¹差

Mandarin Pinyin: cha4

Meaning of 差

nounerrand boy; messenger; runner

nounerrand; mission; assignment

nounmistake; error; slip

nounlack; be less than; be short of

nounslightly; barely; only just

nounsend on an errand; dispatch; assign

noundifference; discrepancy; dissimilarity

noundiverge from; be dissimilar; fall short of

noundifference | ant. 和

nouninferior; substandard; erroneous

nounpoor; bad; sub-standard/slightly; comparatively

Example Sentences with 差

有啲人嘅審美觀念好差㗎

Some people do have a very bad sense of aesthetics.

原來你哥哥係差人

Your brother was a policeman all along!

個差人喺車尾廂搵到個屍體

The policeman found the body in the car's trunk.

而家差兩個字七點

It's ten to seven now.

dangˊ²等dou˗₃到caaiˉ¹差louˊ²佬loiˎ₄來，manˉ¹蚊douˉ¹都fan˗₃瞓laaˉ¹啦！

[粵] paint will dry before the cops come! lit. to wait for the policeman to come, mosquitos would be asleep

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Words Containing 差

差池caa1 ci4

error; mistake; miscalculation

表示差別的biu2 si6 caa1 bit6 dik1

discriminative

色差sik1 caa1

chromatic aberration, component, color difference

文化差異man4 faa3 caa1 ji6

cultural disparity / diversity

交差gaau1 caai1

report to the leadership after accomplishing a task

落差lok6 caa1

drop in elevation

雜差zaap6 caai1

plain clothes police officer or criminal police [also] 便衣 or 刑警

偏差pin1 caa1

bias; deviation; offset

差舘caai1 gun2

police station [Var.] 差館 [華]: PRC Mandarin: 派出所. Non-PRC Chinese: 警察局

差餉caai1 hoeng2

government rates

出差ceot1 caai1

to go on a business trip

相位差soeng3 wai2 caa1

phase difference

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