Re: Add 憋
All added along with 憋得慌 which seems to have a fair number of google hits.p.7170-2 of 漢語方言大詞典 has a lot of info on 憋 and its compounds, but I see none that are 廣東廣州-specific usages. I don't know if 憋...
View ArticleRe: 安 = to make up?
Simon Pettersson wrote:This usage is not listed in the CantoDict character page. Is it still used?Yes, it is still used. I’ve just added to the 安 character page the definition of “fabricate, concoct,...
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It's ok Simon I will do it, just wondering if I should amalgamate the slang deck into the word deck, or should we leave them separate, because there is quite a bit of overlap between the two.
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I don't know if 憋 could be considered Mandarin/SWC-only … e.g., is there possible confusion in conversation for example with 彆We use neither 憋 nor 彆 in Cantonese conversation. They are used in either...
View ArticleRe: 安 = to make up?
安 has the meaning of " to set up" to "to put in place" 安裝冷氣系統 can be shortened to 安冷氣( put air conditioning system in place / install air conditioning system)安放神主牌 most of the time shortened to 安神主牌 (...
View ArticleRe: Add 玷
It looks like we already have 掂 for this in CantoDict … then this should say "variant of 掂".玷 is added. It is clear that 玷 and 掂 have different meanings. I’ve searched my own dictionaries and none has...
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Sorry, missed that previous post. You do all this by hand? Copy/paste the parser output one by one into the CSV file? For several thousand words? That's a lot of work! I assumed you had some way to...
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I just meant that 普通話廣東話用法對比詞典 and 廣州話方然詞典 use this as a loan character to represent the "dim3" phoneme meaning "to touch". But I just tried to google up an example to see if it's ever used that way...
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I guess I could do each char one by one through a character list, parser was generally easier.I did it for a few thousand words, took me maybe 1 hour.Just writing the scripts takes time as well, its...
View ArticleRe: 生氣 angry/lively saang1 hei3
>Life – saang1 (colloquial): 翻生, 殺生, 好生性 | sang1 (literary): 人生, 生平, 生存the example for 生 Life are not all correct翻生( come back to being alive[saang1])殺生 ( kill a life[ sang1])好生性 ( Grow mature well...
View Article千辛萬苦
[www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk]The jyutping reading given for 萬 here is maa⁶, which is probably a typo.
View Article道 reading
[www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk]This entry gives the jyutping reading dou³ for 道, but the only reading listed on the character page is dou⁶. It's not the first time I see 道 with the third tone instead, but...
View Article嬅 reading
[www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk]This entry lists waa⁶ and huà as the respective jyutping and pinyin readings for 嬅. However, the character page only lists waa⁴ and huá, and there are only two compounds in...
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:notworthy: amazing :notworthy:finally some more great resource for stuying cantonese : -) waiting for the jyutping! I kinda agree that yale is rather evil lolabout 8000 expressions seems already so...
View ArticleWhat's up with the site ATM?
The links to forum posts on the main page appear really weird, but the real problem is the character and word pages. They can't even be accessed. Search works, although a warning/error message is...
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哈哈 yeah I have been working on a sentences one. :)
View Articlesite down?
I wanted to go to this site to check on the character he3 cause there has been different ways to write it, but I apparently mistakenly clicked on one of those loading links and now Cantodict won't...
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