失匙夾萬
简 失匙夹万 · 繁 失匙夾萬Meanings
- describes the situation where a son
- daughter in a rich family is having difficulty in getting money from his
- her parents (who are strict in financial); literally "a safe with no key"
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
- 匙 has the reading si4 here; Unihan’s citation reading is ci4. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 匙 si4 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
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-Canto includes this pinyin reference: shi1 chi2 jia1 wan4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
sat1 si4 gaap3 maan6
Cantonese word readings for 失匙夾萬. 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.
phrase
- (Cantonese) person from a rich family who does not have access to his or her family's wealth
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