好眉好貎生沙虱

简 好眉好猊生沙虱 · 繁 好眉好貎生沙虱
Cantonese · source Jyutpinghou2 mei4 hou2 maau6 saang1 saa1 sat1

Meanings

  1. to be good looking on the exterior but is infact a bad person in character [colloquial]
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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

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Reading difference from Unihan

  • 生 has the reading saang1 here; Unihan’s citation reading is sang1. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 生 saang1 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

saangsaang1—省saang2to savesaang3—saang4—saang5—saang6—
saa沙saa1granule耍saa2to play withsaa3—saa4—saa5—saa6—
sat失sat1to losesat2—sat3—sat4—sat5—實sat6real

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

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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries

CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: hao3 mei2 hao3 ni2 sheng1 sha1 shi1. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

hou2 mei4 hou2 maau6 saang1 saa1 sat1

Cantonese word readings for 好眉好貎生沙虱. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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CC-Canto · Pleco Inc. · edition 2017-02-02
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Exact source record & identity好眉好貎生沙虱 好眉好猊生沙虱 [hao3 mei2 hao3 ni2 sheng1 sha1 shi1] {hou2 mei4 hou2 maau6 saang1 saa1 sat1} /to be good looking on the exterior but is infact a bad person in character [colloquial]/

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