濕水炮仗

Cantonese · source Jyutpingsap1 seoi2 paau3 zoeng2

Meanings

  1. describes a well-tempered person or a person who never gets angry (always suppress his
  2. her anger); literally 'wet firecracker'
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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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Tone difference from Unihan

  • 仗 is read zoeng2 here; Unihan’s citation reading is zoeng6. Same syllable, different tone 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

sap湿sap1trivialsap2—sap3—sap4—sap5—十sap6ten

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Written characters

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: chi4 shui3 pao4 zhang5. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Exact source record & identity濕水炮仗 濕水炮仗 [chi4 shui3 pao4 zhang5] {sap1 seoi2 paau3 zoeng2} /describes a well-tempered person or a person who never gets angry (always suppress his/her anger); literally 'wet firecracker'/

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