Re: leng4 - approximation for a quantity
零 is the character. But CantoDict has listed only the literary reading ‘ling4’. I’ll add the colloquial reading ‘leng4’ with its specific meaning in a while.
View ArticleRe: Cantonese cartoons for kids
I used to buy lots of vcds of mainstream cartoon movies eg dream works, Disney dubbed in Cantonese. I have finding nemo, beauty and the beast etc
View ArticleRe: What are some popular Cantonese cartoons
Most original Cantonese cartoon is from HK so they often speak very colloquial or slangy Cantonese. I find dubbed movies often have better Cantonese
View ArticleRe: CantoDict now available as an Android App!
5 years late. Suggestions for this were put forward years and years ago for the cantodict db to be used in apps and it was just sat on, much like this site. Disappointing seeing as most of Cantodict...
View ArticleRe: Cantonese input in iOS 8?
The "Google Cantonese Keyboard" for Android is awesome. Just got my iPhone 6+ and I hope someone brings it to ios 8 soon! :)
View ArticleRe: Flash Card URL Problem
I wouldnt know, is printing them really that beneficial? all my printed decks from mandarin are still in their boxes, never really found a use for them.
View Article𤷪 / 䒐䒏 / 蠻倀 / 憫憎 etc for mang2 zang2
Is there a preferred form for this? I take it that it's supposed to be 𤷪 as those are two Canto-only characters.Also, is only ever encountered in 𤷪? It seems to have been created as 疒 + phonetic 曾...
View ArticleRe: 𤷪 / 䒐䒏 / 蠻倀 / 憫憎 etc for mang2 zang2
I agree that 𤷪𤺧 should be the preferred standard form. This form is supported by 廣州話正音字典, 廣州話方言詞典 and 廣州話普通話詞典.As far as I can find, “A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang” is the only dictionary that...
View ArticleRe: 𤷪 / 䒐䒏 / 蠻倀 / 憫憎 etc for mang2 zang2
QuoteC Chiu I agree that 𤷪𤺧 should be the preferred standard form. This form is supported by 廣州話正音字典, 廣州話方言詞典 and 廣州話普通話詞典.Wedding bells by greenwood press also uses 𤷪𤺧
View ArticleRe: Character for "soek3"?
Looks like that's 𠸑 (according to 《廣州話方言詞典》). It's in Unicode Extension B and thus missing in a lot of Chinese font files, so that may explain why it doesn't seem to show up in CantoDict.
View Article飛雞 for stewardess - slang?
This appears to be a slang term. Also it may be Cantonese only.Can someone confirm?
View ArticleRe: 飛雞 for stewardess - slang?
Quoteyuetwoh This appears to be a slang term. Also it may be Cantonese only.Can someone confirm? Yes for both.-Tony
View ArticleRe: Character for "soek3"?
Quotemikelove Looks like that's 𠸑 (according to 《廣州話方言詞典》). It's in Unicode Extension B and thus missing in a lot of Chinese font files, so that may explain why it doesn't seem to show up in...
View ArticleRe: Character for "soek3"?
Understood - didn't mean to suggest there was anything wrong with your editorial process, was just positing a theory for why it was missing.《廣州話方言詞典》also assigns that meaning to the more common 削 but...
View ArticleRe: Character for "soek3"?
Understood … was just positing a theory for why it was missing.My theory is that the meaning of “soft, mushy” for soek3 is not common among native Cantonese unless they are very knowledgeable about...
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