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粵語拼盤: Learning the phonetic system of Cantonese; Chinese Character Database (Phonologically Disambiguated According to the Cantonese Dialect) The CantoDict Project is a dedicated Cantonese-Mandarin-English online dictionary which uses Jyutping by default; MDBG free online Chinese-English dictionary (supports both Jyutping and Yale ...
CC-Canto is Pleco Software's addition of Cantonese language readings in Jyutping transcription to CC-CEDICT [4] Cantonese CEDICT features Cantonese language readings in Yale transcription and has Cantonese-specific words, many of which were taken from "A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang" [5] in possible copyright infringement. [6]
Graphical representation of the tones of six-tone Cantonese. Modern Cantonese has up to seven phonemic tones. Cantonese Yale represents these tones using a combination of diacritics and the letter h. [5] [6] Traditional Chinese linguistics treats the tones in syllables ending with a stop consonant as separate "entering tones". Cantonese Yale ...
number of revolutions 扎: zhā zaa1: ja1 In Cantonese usage, this is used in lieu of shù (束), e.g. a bundle of flowers "jar", "jug" — beverages such as beer, soda, juice, etc. (A recent loan-word from English, it may be considered informal or slang.) 陣: 阵: zhèn zan6: jan6
The Institute of Language in Education Scheme (Chinese: 教院式拼音方案) also known as the List of Cantonese Pronunciation of Commonly-used Chinese Characters romanization scheme (常用字廣州話讀音表), ILE scheme, and Cantonese Pinyin, [1] is a romanization system for Cantonese developed by Ping-Chiu Thomas Yu (Chinese: 余秉昭) in 1971, [2] [3] and subsequently modified by the ...
Cantonese: 師奶 (si1 naai1) English: Housewife: C9 Example: 你著到成個C9咁. English: You dress like a housewife(C9). The word C9 should be pronounced in English "C nine", which is very similar to Cantonese si1 naai1. It is an easier form of typing the word "師奶" without changing the meaning in Cantonese.
The Cantonese-English code-switching is the insertion of isolated English words into a Cantonese Chinese syntactic frame. It can save time by adding a shorter English word or expression into a Cantonese Chinese sentence without distorting the original meaning. [4] Abbreviations
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