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慷他人之慨

Cantonese · source Jyutpinghong2 taa1 jan4 zi1 koi3

using others' money for donations or for extravagant spending

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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

hong22 · high risingtaa11 · high leveljan44 · low fallingzi11 · high levelkoi33 · mid level

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

Reading difference from Unihan

慷 has the reading hong2 here; Unihan’s citation reading is kong2. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 慷 hong2 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

hong康hong1healthyhong2—hong3—杭hong4Hangzhouhong5—项hong6back of neck

taa他taa1he or himtaa2—taa3—taa4—taa5—taa6—

jan因jan1cause 隐jan2secret 印jan3to print 人jan4man 引jan5to seduce or tempt 孕jan6pregnant

zi之zi1…子zi2son 志zi3signzi4—zi5—自zi6from

koikoi1—koi2—盖koi3to surpasskoi4—koi5—koi6—

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

慷他人之慨

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: kang1 ta1 ren2 zhi1 kai3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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hong2 taa1 jan4 zi1 koi3

Cantonese word readings for 慷他人之慨. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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phrase

(idiomatic) to be generous with other people's money; to be generous at the expense of others

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