放白鴿

简 放白鸽 · 繁 放白鴿
Cantonese · source Jyutpingfong3 baak6 gaap2

Meanings

  1. freeing the white pigeons; to conspire in a fraud; to gang up and swindle
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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

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Reading difference from Unihan

  • 鴿 has the reading gaap2 here; Unihan’s citation reading is gap3. Different syllable across these source readings.

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

baak迫baak1baak2—百baak3hundredbaak4—baak5—白baak6white

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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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries

CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: fang4 bai2 ge1. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

fong3 baak6 gaap2

Cantonese word readings for 放白鴿. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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Exact source record & identity放白鴿 放白鸽 [fang4 bai2 ge1] {fong3 baak6 gaap2} /freeing the white pigeons; to conspire in a fraud; to gang up and swindle/

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