敬酒唔飲飲罰酒

简 敬酒唔饮饮罚酒 · 繁 敬酒唔飲飲罰酒
Cantonese · source Jyutpingging3 zau2 m4 jam2 jam2 fat6 zau2

Meanings

  1. so you want to play it tough instead; you've asked for it [colloquial]
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Reading & tones

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Same syllable, six tones

mm1—呣m2m3—唔m4notm5—m6—
fat弗fat1notfat2—fat3—fat4—fat5—罚fat6to punish

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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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: jing4jiu3 wu2 yin3 yin3 fa2jiu3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

ging3 zau2 m4 jam2 jam2 fat6 zau2

Cantonese word readings for 敬酒唔飲飲罰酒. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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phrase

  1. (Cantonese) to be forced to do something after initially turning down a request to do that thing

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Exact source record & identity敬酒唔飲飲罰酒 敬酒唔饮饮罚酒 [jing4jiu3 wu2 yin3 yin3 fa2jiu3] {ging3 zau2 m4 jam2 jam2 fat6 zau2} /so you want to play it tough instead; you've asked for it [colloquial]/

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