打得更多夜又長

简 打得更多夜又长 · 繁 打得更多夜又長
Cantonese · source Jyutpingdaa2 dak1 gaang1 do1 je6 jau6 coeng4

Meanings

  1. empty talk about useless and irrelevant things is a waste time
About these definitions

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

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

Reading difference from Unihan

  • 更 has the reading gaang1 here; Unihan’s citation reading is gang1. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 更 gaang1 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

daadaa1—打daa2to beatdaa3—daa4—daa5—daa6—
dak德dak1virtuedak2—dak3—dak4—dak5—特dak6special
gaang耕gaang1to plowgaang2—筻gaang3gaang4—gaang5—gaang6—

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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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: da3 de5 geng4 duo1 ye4 you4 zhang3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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CC-Canto · Pleco Inc. · edition 2017-02-02
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Exact source record & identity打得更多夜又長 打得更多夜又长 [da3 de5 geng4 duo1 ye4 you4 zhang3] {daa2 dak1 gaang1 do1 je6 jau6 coeng4} /empty talk about useless and irrelevant things is a waste time/

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