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如喪考妣

简如丧考妣 · 繁如喪考妣

Cantonese · source Jyutpingjyu4 song3 haau2 bei2

it describes people are so anxious and upset that it is as if their parents just passed away

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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

jyu44 · low fallingsong33 · mid levelhaau22 · high risingbei22 · high rising

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

Tone difference from Unihan

喪 is read song3 here; Unihan’s citation reading is song1. Same syllable, different tone across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 喪 song3 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

jyu于jyu1in 伛jyu2hunchbacked 酗jyu3to become drunk and violent 鱼jyu4fish 语jyu5dialect 预jyu6to take part in

song丧song1to be bereaved of 爽song2brightsong3—song4—song5—song6—

haau敲haau1to hit 巧haau2opportunely 孝haau3filial piety or obediencehaau4—haau5—校haau6

bei碑bei1a monument 彼bei2that 秘bei3secretbei4—bei5—备bei6to prepare

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

如喪考妣丧

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

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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries

CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:

如喪考妣 rú sàng kǎo bǐ CC-CEDICT · Mandarin(lit.) as if in mourning for one's parents (idiom); (fig.) (often pejorative) inconsolable; distraught

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: ru2 sang4 kao3 bi3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 2 senses · 1 Cantonese reading