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事急馬行田

简事急马行田 · 繁事急馬行田

Cantonese · source Jyutpingsi6 gap1 maa5 haang4 tin4

a Cantonese idiom which describes someone who is flexible enough to adapt to the circumstances of an emergency situation

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Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.

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Reading & tones

si66 · low levelgap11 · high levelchecked · -pmaa55 · low risinghaang44 · low fallingtin44 · low falling

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Reading difference from Unihan

行 has the reading haang4 here; Unihan’s citation reading is hang4. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 行 haang4 as its own entry.

Computed by zimai: each syllable of the CC-Canto word reading is compared with Unihan 17.0.0 kCantonese for its character. The comparison does not say why a reading differs (a changed tone, 變音, a reading tied to one meaning, or a source variant).

Same syllable, six tones

si斯si1this 史si2history 试si3to test 时si4o'clock 市si5market 事si6matter

gap急gap1an urge to urinate or excretegap2—鸽gap3pigeongap4—gap5—gap6—

maa妈maa1mommaa2—吗maa3final interrogative particle 蟆maa4toad / frog 马maa5horse 骂maa6to scold

haang坑haang1holehaang2—haang3—桁haang4a stock, an adjustable wooden device used for securing…haang5—haang6—

tin天tin1day 腆tin2make strong 瑱tin3田tin4field 殄tin5tin6—

Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.

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Written characters

事急馬行田马

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: shi4 ji2 ma3 xing2 tian2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

si6 gap1 maa5 haang1 tin4 · si6 gap1 maa5 haang4 tin4

Cantonese word readings for 事急馬行田. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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phrase

(idiomatic) to take extraordinary actions in an emergency

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