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打雀噉眼

简打雀啖眼 · 繁打雀噉眼

Cantonese · source Jyutpingdaa2 zoek3 daam6 ngaan5

to look down on someone; to look attentively; to stare openly and stupidly; to gaze

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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 risingzoek33 · mid levelchecked · -kdaam66 · low levelngaan55 · low rising

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

Reading difference from Unihan

噉 has the reading daam6 here; Unihan’s citation reading is gam2. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 噉 daam6 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—

zoekzoek1—zoek2—雀zoek3freckleszoek4—zoek5—着zoek6aspect particle indicating action in progress

daam担daam1to undertake 胆daam2gall bladderdaam3—daam4—daam5—淡daam6insipid

ngaanngaan1—ngaan2—ngaan3—颜ngaan4color 眼ngaan5eye 雁ngaan6wild goose

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

打雀噉眼啖

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: da3 que4 dan4 yan3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

daa2 zoek2 gam2 ngaan5

Cantonese word readings for 打雀噉眼. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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phrase

(Cantonese, simile) to look intently; to fixate; to gawk

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