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人老精鬼老靈

简人老精鬼老灵 · 繁人老精鬼老靈

Cantonese · source Jyutpingjan4 lou5 zeng1 gwai2 lou5 leng4

The grown up
seniors might have thought things thoroughly because they have experienced lots in their lives

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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

jan44 · low fallinglou55 · low risingzeng11 · high levelgwai22 · high risinglou55 · low risingleng44 · low falling

Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.

Reading difference from Unihan

精 has the reading zeng1 here; Unihan’s citation reading is zing1. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 精 zeng1 as its own entry.
靈 has the reading leng4 here; Unihan’s citation reading is ling4. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 靈 leng4 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

jan因jan1cause 隐jan2secret 印jan3to print 人jan4man 引jan5to seduce or tempt 孕jan6pregnant

lou噜lou1grumble 佬lou2man / guy / bloke / dudelou3—劳lou4to toil 老lou5prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral…路lou6road

zengzeng1—井zeng2a wellzeng3—zeng4—zeng5—郑zeng6Zheng state during the Warring States period

gwai归gwai1to return 鬼gwai2ghost 贵gwai3expensivegwai4—gwai5—柜gwai6cupboard

lengleng1—leng2—靓leng3beautifulleng4—leng5—leng6—

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

人老精鬼靈灵

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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries

CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: ren2 lao3 jing1 gui3 lao3 ling2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

jan4 lou5 zeng1 gwai2 lou5 leng4

Cantonese word readings for 人老精鬼老靈. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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