初歸新抱落地孩兒

简 初归新抱落地孩儿 · 繁 初歸新抱落地孩兒
Cantonese · source Jyutpingco1 gwai1 san1 pou5 lok6 dei6 haai4 ji4

Meanings

  1. a new daughter in law is like a new born, meaning a new daughter in law to a family must learn all the new rules about the family she is marrying to from scratch again like a baby [colloquial]
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Reading & tones

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Same syllable, six tones

loklok1—lok2—络lok3net-likelok4—lok5—樂lok6happy
deidei1—dei2—dei3—dei4—dei5—地dei6-ly

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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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: chu1 gui1 xin1 bao4 luo4di4 hai2er2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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CC-Canto · Pleco Inc. · edition 2017-02-02
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Exact source record & identity初歸新抱落地孩兒 初归新抱落地孩儿 [chu1 gui1 xin1 bao4 luo4di4 hai2er2] {co1 gwai1 san1 pou5 lok6 dei6 haai4 ji4} /a new daughter in law is like a new born, meaning a new daughter in law to a family must learn all the new rules about the family she is marrying to from scratch again like a baby [colloquial]/

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