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捱更抵夜

简挨更抵夜 · 繁捱更抵夜

Cantonese · source Jyutpingngaai4 gaang1 dai2 je6

(verb) to stay up late working; ) to work overtime; to work all day and night

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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

ngaai44 · low fallinggaang11 · high leveldai22 · high risingje66 · low level

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

ngaaingaai1—ngaai2—ngaai3—崖ngaai4precipicengaai5—艾ngaai6Chinese mugwort or wormwood / artemisia

gaang耕gaang1to plowgaang2—筻gaang3gaang4—gaang5—gaang6—

dai䃅dai1A stone that can be used to make black dye 底dai2background 帝dai3emperordai4—dai5—弟dai6younger brother

jeje1—je2—je3—爷je4grandpa 野je5field 夜je6night

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

捱更抵夜挨

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

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: ai1 geng4 di3 ye4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

ngaai4 gaang1 dai2 je6

Cantonese word readings for 捱更抵夜. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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verb

(Cantonese, Nanning Pinghua) to stay up late or all night

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