Re: I hope someone can help
First of all, I must say I am not completely sure about such characters written in cursive style.But I think the three bigger characters read 報春圖 - “a picture that announces the arrival of spring”.The...
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QuoteC Chiu First of all, I must say I am not completely sure about such characters written in cursive style.But I think the three bigger characters read 報春圖 - “a picture that announces the arrival of...
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Quotemichael How many people under 30 in Singapore still speak Hokkien or Hakka or Teochew? How many people under 30 in Shanghai still speak Shanghaiese? How many young people speak Breton in France?...
View Articletone for 冇郁 entry
http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/43217/For the command "Don't move!", tone should be mou2 juk1 instead of mou5 juk1 (which is "didn't move" ).
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冇郁 = hasn’t moved = mou5 juk1唔好郁 = don’t move = m4hou2 juk1 = m(4h)ou2 juk1 = mou2 juk1I suggest that the entry be changed from 冇郁 to 唔好郁, with m4 hou2 juk1 as the standard reading, plus a note on...
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The independence vote wouldn't have helped scots Gaelic-Irish continued to decline after independence, if you look at the maps of the irish speaking areas (Gaeltachtaí), you can see that the...
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If that's the way you guys prefer to catalog it, then you might want to consider changing 冇嘈 as well.I would suggest also adding a note into the entries for 唔好 as well as 冇 to alert learners to the...
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QuoteC Chiu 冇郁 = hasn’t moved = mou5 juk1唔好郁 = don’t move = m5hou2 juk1 = m(5h)ou2 juk1 = mou2 juk1I suggest that the entry be changed from 冇郁 to 唔好郁, with m5 hou2 juk1 as the standard reading, plus a...
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Further on the topic of entering syllable blending as a separate entry, I notice that the blended form 係咪 as well as the standard form 係唔係are both in CantoDict. This is appropriate because 咪 has...
View Articletypo in entry for 抓
http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/2007/Both the jyupting and the pinyin readings are listed as [粤] .
View Article瑕瑜互見 typo
http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/55094/The jyutping for 見 is currently "jin3" instead of "gin3."
View ArticleRe: tone for 冇郁 entry
I've seen 冇 being used to indicate "mou2" in Cantonese writing, so it's not uheard of, but maybe it's not common enough to warrant inclusion? I've especially seen it in the contraction "好冇" (hou2...
View Articleleng4 - approximation for a quantity
eg, 千leng4鈫， 廿leng4個，etcIs there a character for this?
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Ok thanks. I'll look up how i can format them in the same way that this site had them. I like the fact you can easily print these on each side. I have the flash cards in Anki but I think the print...
View ArticleRe: Some help with addressing specific people
Try out this site. Ben used to be pretty active member and may still be lurking around.[ipracticecanto.wordpress.com]
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