掀起
掀起 is "hin1 hei2" in CantoDict, yet the compound "掀起鑊蓋" uses "kin2 hei2". I'm guessing it can have both readings, depending if it's the physical act of lifting up (using the colloquial "kin2") or a...
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I'm guessing such a feature would require work by Adam, the site's founder and administrator. He's been unreachable for almost a year.
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QuoteSimon Pettersson I'm guessing such a feature would require work by Adam, the site's founder and administrator. He's been unreachable for almost a year.Well that sucks. If there was some sort of...
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With the availability of more source materials on Cantonese characters, it is founded that most sources (including 廣州話正音字典, 廣州話方言詞典, Cantonese Association, etc) now use 㨴 (instead of 掀) for the verb...
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QuoteC Chiu 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...
View ArticleRe: Vocabulary Organization by Level
I don't think it'd be a useful feature, since it's hard to give a difficultly level for individual characters. (The usefulness of compounds including any given character vary wildly.)Even if you...
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View ArticleRe: Vocabulary Organization by Level
Time wrote: Also if one of the characters was level 3 the word would be considered level 3.Not quite correct. For instance, the four characters in the idiom 還得神落 are individually characters of level 1...
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㨴 [kin2] and 揭 [kit3] are actually a pair of nasal-stop alternants. They are interchangeable for the “lift” meaning.I’ve already added to the 㨴 character page the following note:[synonym] 掀 (for...
View Article扼 aak1?
[www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk]The character 扼 only has the single reading "ak1" on its character page, but the reading "aak1" is used in one of the compounds. Looking at Pleco, it has the single reading...
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View Article袋 used on its own
[www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk]The character page of 袋 leads one to believe that when 袋 is used on it's own "一個袋", it's pronounced "doi6", though not written outright. Is that true, or it it doi6*2? I...
View ArticleRe: 扼 aak1?
Short-vowel ‘ak1’ and long-vowel ‘aak1’ used to be the literary and colloquial readings respectively of the character 扼. Today, most dictionaries (廣州話正音字典, 廣州音字典, 廣州話發音與口語, 4 sources in CUHK site)...
View ArticleRe: 袋 used on its own
It’s “doi6*2” when used in "一個袋" but it’s also true that “doi6*2 is often used at the end of multisyllabic words”.I don’t think it necessary to specifically mention on the Additional Notes section the...
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