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喃嘸佬

简喃呒佬 · 繁喃嘸佬

Cantonese · source Jyutpingnaam4 m4 lou2

monk; people carry out religious rituals during funeral as a job

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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

naam44 · low fallingm44 · low fallinglou22 · high rising

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

Reading difference from Unihan

嘸 has the reading m4 here; Unihan’s citation reading is fu2. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 嘸 m4 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

naamnaam1—naam2—naam3—南naam4south 腩naam5brisket 婻naam6

mm1—呣m2m3—唔m4notm5—m6—

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

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

喃嘸佬呒

Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: nan2 m1 lao3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

naam4 m4 lou2 · naam4 mo4 lou2

Cantonese word readings for 喃嘸佬. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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noun

(Cantonese) Taoist priest

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