好睇唔好食

Cantonese · source Jyutpinghou2 tai2 m4 hou2 sik6

Meanings

  1. looks delicious but tastes horrible; looks good but impractical [colloquial]
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Reading & tones

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Same syllable, six tones

mm1—呣m2m3—唔m4notm5—m6—
sik色sik1colorsik2—sik3—sik4—sik5—食sik6to eat

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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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: hao3di4 wu2 hao3 shi2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

hou2 tai2 m4 hou2 sik6

Cantonese word readings for 好睇唔好食. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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Exact source record & identity好睇唔好食 好睇唔好食 [hao3di4 wu2 hao3 shi2] {hou2 tai2 m4 hou2 sik6} /looks delicious but tastes horrible; looks good but impractical [colloquial]/

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