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大陸妹

简大陆妹 · 繁大陸妹

Cantonese · source Jyutpingdaai6 luk6 mui1

noun; women from China; generic, not insulting

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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

daai66 · low levelluk66 · low levelchecked · -kmui11 · high level

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

Tone difference from Unihan

妹 is read mui1 here; Unihan’s citation reading is mui6. Same syllable, different tone across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 妹 mui1 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

daaidaai1—歹daai2bad 带daai3banddaai4—daai5—大daai6

luk碌luk1laboriousluk2—luk3—luk4—luk5—录luk6diary

muimui1—mui2—mui3—梅mui4plum 每mui5妹mui6younger sister

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

大陸妹陆

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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries

CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:

大陸妹 dà lù mèi CC-CEDICT · Mandarin(in Taiwan, Hong Kong or Macao) girl from the mainland; (Tw) Fushan lettuce 福山萵苣 Fú shān wō jù

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: da4 lu4 mei4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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