嘞嘞聲
简 嘞嘞声 · 繁 嘞嘞聲Meanings
- to be very fluent in a language (usually to describe a foreign language) [colloquial]
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.
Reading difference from Unihan
- 嘞 has the reading laak4 here; Unihan’s citation reading is laa3. Different syllable across these source readings.
- 嘞 has the reading laak2 here; Unihan’s citation reading is laa3. Different syllable across these source readings.
- 聲 has the reading seng1 here; Unihan’s citation reading is sing1. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 聲 seng1 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).
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: le1le5 sheng1. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
laak1 laak1 seng1
Cantonese word readings for 嘞嘞聲. 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.
adj
- (Cantonese, ideophonic) fluent (in a foreign language)
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