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八字生得正

Cantonese · source Jyutpingbaat3 zi6 saang1 dak1 zeng3

to be born under a good sign; to lead a lucky life [colloquial]

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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

baat33 · mid levelchecked · -tzi66 · low levelsaang11 · high leveldak11 · high levelchecked · -kzeng33 · mid level

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

Reading difference from Unihan

生 has the reading saang1 here; Unihan’s citation reading is sang1. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 生 saang1 as its own entry.
正 has the reading zeng3 here; Unihan’s citation reading is zing3. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 正 zeng3 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

baatbaat1—baat2—八baat3eightbaat4—baat5—baat6—

zi之zi1…子zi2son 志zi3signzi4—zi5—自zi6from

saangsaang1—省saang2to savesaang3—saang4—saang5—saang6—

dak德dak1virtuedak2—dak3—dak4—dak5—特dak6special

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

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

八字生得正

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: ba1zi4 sheng1 de5 zheng4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

baat3 zi6 saang1 dak1 zeng3

Cantonese word readings for 八字生得正. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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