煠吓煠吓

Cantonese · source Jyutpingsaap6 haa5 saap6 haa5

Meanings

  1. slow-witted; dim-witted; dorky [colloquial]
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Reading & tones

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Reading difference from Unihan

  • 煠 has the reading saap6 here; Unihan’s citation reading is zaa3. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 煠 saap6 as its own entry.
  • 吓 has the reading haa5 here; Unihan’s citation reading is haak3. Different syllable across these source readings.
  • 煠 has the reading saap6 here; Unihan’s citation reading is zaa3. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 煠 saap6 as its own entry.
  • 吓 has the reading haa5 here; Unihan’s citation reading is haak3. 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

saapsaap1—saap2—霎saap3all of a suddensaap4—saap5—saap6—

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: ye4 xia4 ye4 xia4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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phrase

  1. (Cantonese, colloquial) to look foolish, daft; to be thick-headed, to space out, to be inattentive to the situation

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Exact source record & identity煠吓煠吓 煠吓煠吓 [ye4 xia4 ye4 xia4] {saap6 haa5 saap6 haa5} /slow-witted; dim-witted; dorky [colloquial]/

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