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奀嫋鬼命

简奀袅鬼命 · 繁奀嫋鬼命

Cantonese · source Jyutpingngan1 tiu1 gwai2 meng6

describes a person (normally female) who is very thin and looking weak; frail (person)

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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

ngan11 · high leveltiu11 · high levelgwai22 · high risingmeng66 · low level

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

Reading difference from Unihan

嫋 has the reading tiu1 here; Unihan’s citation reading is niu5. Different syllable across these source readings.
命 has the reading meng6 here; Unihan’s citation reading is ming6. Different syllable across these source readings.

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

nganngan1—ngan2—ngan3—银ngan4cashngan5—ngan6—

tiu挑tiu1fucktiu2—跳tiu3to jump 条tiu4strip 窕tiu5quiet and secludedtiu6—

gwai归gwai1to return 鬼gwai2ghost 贵gwai3expensivegwai4—gwai5—柜gwai6cupboard

mengmeng1—meng2—meng3—meng4—茗meng5meng6—

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

奀嫋鬼命袅

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

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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries

CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: di2 niao3 gui3 ming4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

ngan1 niu1 gwai2 meng6

Cantonese word readings for 奀嫋鬼命. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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