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未嘗不可

简未尝不可 · 繁未嘗不可

Cantonese · source Jyutpingmei6 soeng4 bat1 ho2

not a bad idea; it's not impossible; there's no reason why it shouldn't
couldn't be done

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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

mei66 · low levelsoeng44 · low fallingbat11 · high levelchecked · -tho22 · high rising

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

Same syllable, six tones

meimei1—mei2—mei3—微mei4tiny 美mei5beautiful 味mei6taste

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

bat不bat1notbat2—bat3—bat4—bat5—拔bat6to pull up

ho呵ho1to scold 可ho2canho3—河ho4riverho5—贺ho6to congratulate

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

未嘗不可尝

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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries

CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:

未嘗不可 wèi cháng bù kě CC-CEDICT · Mandarin(idiom) acceptable; fine; okay

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: wei4 chang2 bu4 ke3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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