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倒吊冇滴墨水

Cantonese · source Jyutpingdou3 diu3 mou5 dik1 mak6 seoi2

hanging upside down without dropping one drop of ink, which means a person seems to know a certain thing, but actually is clueless and lack of content

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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

dou33 · mid leveldiu33 · mid levelmou55 · low risingdik11 · high levelchecked · -kmak66 · low levelchecked · -kseoi22 · high rising

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

Tone difference from Unihan

倒 is read dou3 here; Unihan’s citation reading is dou2. Same syllable, different tone across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 倒 dou3 as its own entry.
滴 is read dik1 here; Unihan’s citation reading is dik6. Same syllable, different tone across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 滴 dik1 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

dou都dou1all 倒dou2to pour 到dou3todou4—dou5—道dou6direction

diu雕diu1Penisdiu2—吊diu3Reminiscediu4—diu5—调diu6to transfer

moumou1—mou2—mou3—无mou4not to have 武mou5martial 务mou6affair

dik的dik1ofdik2—dik3—dik4—dik5—迪dik6to enlighten

mak唛mak1a mugmak2—mak3—mak4—mak5—麦mak6wheat

seoi须seoi1must 水seoi2water 税seoi3taxes 垂seoi4to hang 绪seoi5beginnings 瑞seoi6lucky

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

倒吊冇滴墨水

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: dao4 diao4 mao3 di1 mo4 shui3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

dou3 diu3 mou5 dik1 mak6 seoi2 · dou3 diu3 mou5 dik6 mak6 seoi2

Cantonese word readings for 倒吊冇滴墨水. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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