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My uncle's name
My grandfather scribbled a rudimentary family tree before he passed away.The document of course has many names, most with romanized pronunciations alongside them.I have been looking for a way to find...
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龔Cantonese (Jyutping): gung1, a Chinese surname雅Cantonese (Jyutping): aa1, ngaa5, elegant, graceful, refined強Cantonese (Jyutping): koeng4, strong, powerful, energetic
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Thanks pkchan and Mr K. I will probably have some more I need help with, but this is a great start.
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yinsanity wrote:but the characters for the pronunciations that I have don't match the ones CantoDict provides.The characters that you have are probably ‘Kung Nga Keung’ (supplied by Mr. K above). The...
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… and a classifier can often function as the English article ‘a/an’ or ‘the’:鑿口釘入牆 ‘Drill a nail into the wall’場火燒咗兩個鐘頭 ‘The fire lasted for two hours’ - The first classifier 場 is used as an article;...
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Ancestor's name
Another name I'm looking for the Cantonese character and Jyupting pronunciation for.Any help is appreciated.
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龔 Cantonese (Jyutping): gung1, a Chinese surname珍 Cantonese (Jyutping): zan1, precious, valuable, rare輝 Cantonese (Jyutping): fai1, brightness, lustre, brilliance
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(褪) (一個) (位) (出嚟)(move over) (one) (space) (to make available, a Cantonese way of saying "to reveal an empty space")It simply means "move over so that other people may sit."
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Can someone help me with the below sentence, how would you translate it?公立醫院有人滿之患
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公立(public)醫院(hospitals)有(have) 人滿之患 ( problem of overcrowding)人滿( full of people) 之患 ( problem of)
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