Re: kam4 高 kam4低 - which kam4?
The Unihan database suggests the character 捦, but I can't seem to find much support for it (based on quick web searches) - most of the websites just copy-paste the Unihan definition.廣州話正音字典 lists the...
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View ArticleRe: kam4 高 kam4低 - which kam4?
QuoteYeegs The Unihan database suggests the character 捦, but I can't seem to find much support for it (based on quick web searches) - most of the websites just copy-paste the Unihan definition.廣州話正音字典...
View ArticleRe: kam4 高 kam4低 - which kam4?
Sounds good to me! Any other usage examples of this character? Can it be used on its own as a word?
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Can anyone translate the 2 below please into Chinese?Biding my timeSurvival of the fittest
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This website is not just a forum; it's a dictionary, too. Make a search for "bide" and you get a result for "bide one's time". Make another one for "fittest" and you get two!
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《粵語速成高級教材》 by 吳偉平 and 陳智樑，香港中文大學雅禮中國語文硑習所教材, published by Commercial press,on page 48 it has the entry "𨔛高隻手四圍抺，又擒高擒低” This book is a pretty reliable source and is usually good on characters.Also, if...
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in the book 《粵語速成高級教材》 published by commercial press, page 9 has the following listings:撩耳仔：liu1 ji5 zai2 (挖耳朵）撩鼻哥：liu1 bei6 go1 (摳鼻子）
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Hi, thanks.For bide one's time the dictionary comes up with 按兵不動 which sounds more like something they say in movies and not in everyday conversation? I got an alternative one: 等待你的时间 which sounds...
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「按兵不動」is an idiom, ( hold the army in position) Chinese use idioms in day to day speech very often. 按兵不動 refer to " withholding action"「等候你的時間」, is saying : " wait for your time" in English"Biding...
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This is not in Cantodict (very surprisingly) and should be added.But, what's the difference between 麒麟 and 獨角獸 ?
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麒麟 (Kirin (English translation from Japanese kanji)) is a Chinese mythical creature with dragon's head, body of a hoofed beast. often be compared to 'Griffin'麒( male Kirin ) have single horn麟(...
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QuoteDongFor bide one's time the dictionary comes up with 按兵不動 which sounds more like something they say in movies and not in everyday conversation? "Bide one's time" sounds a bit bookish to me, and I...
View ArticleRe: 燜 man1 or mun6
廣州話普通話詞典 (p.264) uses the Mandarin word 燜 to describe 炆. 廣州話發音與口語 (p.278) also equates the Cantonese 炆 to the Mandarin燜. These two now look like dialectal equivalent of each other.I’ll revise the...
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I was wondering if you could make something which organizes vocabulary so that if there is a word made of two character in level 1 the word would be considered level 1. Also if one of the characters...
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