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戇鳩

简戆鸠 · 繁戇鳩

Cantonese · source Jyutpingngong6 gau1

fucking stupid (derogatory)

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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

ngong66 · low levelgau11 · high level

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

Reading difference from Unihan

戇 has the reading ngong6 here; Unihan’s citation reading is zong3. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 戇 ngong6 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

ngongngong1—ngong2—ngong3—昂ngong4highngong5—ngong6—

gau鸠gau1slang for penis 狗gau2dog 购gau3to buygau4—gau5—旧gau6old

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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