半夜食黃瓜

简 半夜食黄瓜 · 繁 半夜食黃瓜
Cantonese · source Jyutpingbun3 je6 sik6 wong4 gwaa1

Meanings

  1. eating a cucumber in midnight, which means not knowing where is the start and end
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Same syllable, six tones

sik色sik1colorsik2—sik3—sik4—sik5—食sik6to eat
gwaa瓜gwaa1melon寡gwaa2few挂gwaa3to missgwaa4—gwaa5—gwaa6—

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: ban4 ye4 shi2 huang2 gua5. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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bun3 je2 sik6 wong4 gwaa1

Cantonese word readings for 半夜食黃瓜. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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CC-Canto · Pleco Inc. · edition 2017-02-02
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Exact source record & identity半夜食黃瓜 半夜食黄瓜 [ban4 ye4 shi2 huang2 gua5] {bun3 je6 sik6 wong4 gwaa1} /eating a cucumber in midnight, which means not knowing where is the start and end/

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