迆/迤 for hea
As the title says, I've seen people using the two characters to write "he3" instead of the 口+氣 one used in Cantodict
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Adam probably upgraded PHP to 5.1 or greater. Given that this warning message is on every page generated, he'll see it yet.-Tony
View Articlelooking for canto cartoons with english subs
as says in the title looking for some childrens videos cartoons & resources that have english subtitles.anyone link me up to any?
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There have been database error messages some weeks ago too, would be interesting to know what's happening :) CantoDict, we need you!! :)
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I'm not sure if it's because of me going to a loading site though. I thought it was a problem on my end...
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FWIW, if you have an iPhone with the ChiDin app and the CantoDict plugin, you can still search CantoDict with it.
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Best bet is to go to Yes Asia, Disney always do fantastic dubs and subs that are pretty accurate.I have also seen bob the builder in canto, with convertable subs.
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char, word and sentence filters are screwed, I cant even go to the next page.Overall search is fine though.
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Historical-based Canto notation
In 1947, Y.R. Chao published his Cantonese Romanization that uses tonal spelling, that is, tones are indicated using the different spellings of a word, for instance, in his General Chinese, the four...
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Simon, can you still access the character and word pages, though? I can search, which is something, but I can't go deeper.
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precisely what I was talking about. Can only get the first page, anything else nope.
View ArticleEason Chan or Andy Lau songs with Jyutping
All,I'm looking for some Andy Lau or Eason Chan links with Jyutping.Is there a Youtube channel that has all of this?I want to sing along or at least try. Are there any older songs or singers you'd...
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Why not just learn the character pronunciations, that will improve your overall understanding of the language?[ankiweb.net]is a good place to start with character memorisation to jyutping.If you use...
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QuoteBerrjodSimon, can you still access the character and word pages, though? I can search, which is something, but I can't go deeper.Good point. No, it's the same thing. What's worse, since we...
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soo, in the worst case, is there any way to salvage the db data and re-establish it on another system?
View Article巧 reading
[www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk]I can't access this entry to see if it has a clarification, but it's the only example of 巧 being read as kiu². I asked my friend about the phrase in question, 咁啱得咁巧, and she...
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kiu2 is the colloquial reading for 巧. It's true that other characters are sometimes used, but I think it's historically correct to use 巧. Compare with the Mandarin reading "qiao3" and you can see it's...
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It's a good idea to hold off learning the characters and use only romanization the first year or two of studies, but as Scottie_Boy says it's hard to find resources.
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QuoteBerrjodIs it interchangable to some extent with haau², then?I'm not the right person to ask, but no, I don't think they're interchangeable. They're used differently, in different contexts. I...
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