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放長雙眼

简放长双眼 · 繁放長雙眼

Cantonese · source Jyutpingfong3 zoeng2 soeng1 ngaan5

just wait and see; watch out

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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

fong33 · mid levelzoeng22 · high risingsoeng11 · high levelngaan55 · low rising

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

Reading difference from Unihan

長 has the reading zoeng2 here; Unihan’s citation reading is coeng4. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 長 zoeng2 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

fong方fong1square 晃fong2to dazzle 放fong3to release 房fong4housefong5—fong6—

zoeng张zoeng1to open up 奖zoeng2prize 账zoeng3accountzoeng4—zoeng5—象zoeng6elephant

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

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

放長雙眼长双

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: fang4 chang2 shuang1 yan3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

fong3 coeng4 soeng1 ngaan5

Cantonese word readings for 放長雙眼. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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verb

(Cantonese) to wait and see

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