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打蛇隨棍上

简打蛇随棍上 · 繁打蛇隨棍上

Cantonese · source Jyutpingdaa2 se4 ceoi4 gwan3 soeng5

(proverb) press home one's advantage; to seize an opportunity to make a request or to propose one's ideas; exploit a loophole in what someone has said to one's advantage

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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

daa22 · high risingse44 · low fallingceoi44 · low fallinggwan33 · mid levelsoeng55 · low rising

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

Tone difference from Unihan

上 is read soeng5 here; Unihan’s citation reading is soeng6. Same syllable, different tone across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 上 soeng5 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—

se些se1some 写se2to write 卸se3to unload 蛇se4snake 社se5society 射se6to shoot

ceoi吹ceoi1to blow 取ceoi2to take 趣ceoi3interesting 除ceoi4to get rid ofceoi5—ceoi6—

gwan军gwan1army 滚gwan2to boil 棍gwan3stickgwan4—gwan5—郡gwan6canton

soeng相soeng1each other 想soeng2to thinksoeng3—常soeng4always 绱soeng5上soeng6on top

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

打蛇隨棍上随

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

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: da3 she2 sui2 gun4 shang4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

daa2 se4 ceoi4 gwan3 soeng5

Cantonese word readings for 打蛇隨棍上. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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