Re: practise via terrible translation
Thank you all for your help. I do know about the traditional vs simplified thing but my keyboard for mandarin is only simplified.I have some more words;头颈膝手臂手腿头发眼睛耳朵鼻子
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Kobo-Daishi wrote:Since you're going to come up with a list, could you also post it to the forums for our use as well.Here is the list that I’ve just sent to CUHK:粵語拼音字表 (Guide to LSHK Cantonese...
View ArticleRe: practise via terrible translation
QuoteTime Thank you all for your help. I do know about the traditional vs simplified thing but my keyboard for mandarin is only simplified.I have some more words;头颈膝手臂手腿头发眼睛耳朵鼻子头. -- 頭颈 -- 頸/ 頸項膝 --...
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曙JP: cyu5PY: chu3Meaning: Dawn; daybreakExample compounds:曙光 | cyu5 gwong1 | chu3guang1 | first light of dawn曙色 | cyu5 sik1 | chu3se4 | first light of dawn
View Article㷫過火炭屎
[www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk]The jyutping doesn't quite match the characters in this entry.
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烚 is not in CantoDict by itself, but it does appear in four entries. Should it be added?
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On the character pages of 熠 and 煠, I added this note last year:“There is no standard Cantonese character for saap6 (boil). 廣州話正音字典 and 廣州話方言詞典 both use 熠; 實用廣州話分類詞典 uses 煠; 廣州話普通話詞典 uses 烚; UniHan...
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QuoteC ChiuI don’t think we should add any more saap6 character before we could have decided on which character is the standard.Sure, but 烚 is used in the compound 㷫烚烚, where it's read "hap6", so it's...
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如浮沙斷、覆墳經、入門斷、透山光、隔山照、望宅斷、搜鬼經、都天斷、望龍斷、隔江斷，與夫鬼靈經、烚屋羅睺、開皇夾竹之類，皆可以一時所見談禍福，而於龍穴初無與焉七廟四時常祭，烚則三年一祭，而又不究四時，於情為簡。烚 U+70DARadical: 火+ 6 strokes = 10 strokes total.Mandarin: xiáCantonese: hap6 saap3Unihan...
View ArticleAdd 篋
I've memorized 5,000 characters and I'm still constantly encountering new ones! Here's yet another one, seen in a newspaper headline in a movie:篋/箧JP: haap6PY: qièMeaning: Small suitcaseExample...
View Article筐 and 胠
Looking for compounds with my newly encountered character 篋, I see that Pleco has the compounds 筐篋 and 胠篋, which include the characters 筐 (hong1) and 胠 (keoi1), both not in CantoDict. I'm not sure how...
View ArticleRe: 憊 readings
Ok, so if we can't disambiguate them or call one a variant reading, could we at least add a note that both readings are used and interchangeable or something? At the moment the character page only...
View ArticleHaving Trouble Entering '孩' Using Jyutping 1.1
Hello All,I am having issues entering the following sentence:女??孩係外便掃地 (neoi5 jan2 hai ngoi6 bin2 sou3 dei6)I have entered '孩', however, I had to use the Mandarin input in order to type it.These are...
View Article間辦公室畀細路你搞亂咗
[www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk]What is the purpose of 你 in this sentence? It's not mentioned in the literal translation either.
View ArticleRe: Having Trouble Entering '孩' Using Jyutping 1.1
If you are inputing with Cantodict,I have no problems coming up with:孩 haai4in a search for haai4.Which input device/software are you using?
View ArticleRe: Add 篋
Isn't this also gip1 for suitcase (sometimes written 喼 ）http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/8684/https://hk.knowledge.yahoo.com/question/question?qid=7007040105503Cantodict says...
View ArticleRe: 成龍電影 - Writing practice
Thanks again Tang, as always these corrections are a big help.
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