嗒
Meanings · taap3
- (Cantonese)
- to fall in love
- to taste
Meanings · daap1
- onomatopoeia of clip-clop
- clatter of a horse's hoofs
- tick tock of clocks
Meanings · dap1
- onomatopoeia of clip-clop
- clatter of a horse's hoofs
- tick tock of clocks
Meanings · dep1
- onomatopoeia of clip-clop
- clatter of a horse's hoofs
- tick tock of clocks
Meanings · daap3
- onomatopoeia of clip-clop
- clatter of a horse's hoofs
- tick tock of clocks
Meanings · daap1
- to lick
- the sound of someone tasting something
- to have a taste
- to be attracted to someone
Meanings · dep1
- to lick
- the sound of someone tasting something
- to have a taste
- to be attracted to someone
Meanings · daat6
- onomatopoeia of clip-clop
- clatter of a horse's hoofs
- tick tock of clocks
- plattering of raindrops
Meanings · taap3
- to despair
- to feel dejected
- to feel depressed
About these definitions
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.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
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.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 嗒 dā CC-CEDICT · Mandarin(onom.) used in words that describe machine gunfire, the ticking of a clock or the clatter of horse hooves etc
- 嗒 tà CC-CEDICT · Mandarinused in 嗒然 tà rán and 嗒喪 tà sàng
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: ta4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 9 senses · 5 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
daap1 · daap3 · daat3 · daat6 · taap3
Cantonese word readings for 嗒. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- Used in compounds.
character
- (onomatopoeia) rattle; clatter
- (Wu, obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to lick
character
- synonym of 了 (“used after a verb to indicate perfective aspect”)
character
- (Cantonese) to taste food by holding in the mouth
- (Wu) to taste
character
- (Hokkien, childish) to eat (used to speak with infants)
- (Hokkien) to speak
character
- (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to swallow (to cause food, drink, etc. to pass from the mouth into the stomach)
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