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好事不出門，壞事傳千里

简好事不出门，坏事传千里 · 繁好事不出門，壞事傳千里

Cantonese · source Jyutpinghou2 si6 bat1 ceot1 mun4 waai6 si6 cyun4 cin1 lei5

Good news do not travel well, but bad news travel really fast and far

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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

hou22 · high risingsi66 · low levelbat11 · high levelchecked · -tceot11 · high levelchecked · -tmun44 · low fallingwaai66 · low levelsi66 · low levelcyun44 · low fallingcin11 · high levellei55 · low rising

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

Same syllable, six tones

hou蒿hou1celery wormwood 好hou2good 耗hou3to waste 毫hou4fine hairhou5—号hou6ordinal number

si斯si1this 史si2history 试si3to test 时si4o'clock 市si5market 事si6matter

bat不bat1notbat2—bat3—bat4—bat5—拔bat6to pull up

ceot出ceot1classifier for dramas, plays, operas etcceot2—ceot3—ceot4—ceot5—ceot6—

munmun1—mun2—mun3—門mun4gate 滿mun5to fill 闷mun6bored

waai歪waai1askewwaai2—waai3—怀waai4bosomwaai5—坏waai6bad

cyun川cyun1river 窜cyun2to flee 串cyun3to string together 全cyun4allcyun5—cyun6—

cin千cin1thousand 浅cin2shallowcin3—前cin4front 践cin5to fulfillcin6—

lei喱lei1grain weightlei2—lei3—离lei4to leave 理lei5texture 利lei6sharp

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

好事不出門壞傳千里门坏传

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: hao3 shi4 bu4 chu1 men2 , huai4 shi4 chuan2 qian1 li3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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