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生人霸死地

Cantonese · source Jyutpingsaang1 jan4 baa3 sei2 dei6

hogging of benefits to oneself; unwilling to share profits (slang)

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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

saang11 · high leveljan44 · low fallingbaa33 · mid levelsei22 · high risingdei66 · low level

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

Reading difference from Unihan

生 has the reading saang1 here; Unihan’s citation reading is sang1. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 生 saang1 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

saangsaang1—省saang2to savesaang3—saang4—saang5—saang6—

jan因jan1cause 隐jan2secret 印jan3to print 人jan4man 引jan5to seduce or tempt 孕jan6pregnant

baa巴baa1to long for 把baa2to hold 霸baa3hegemonbaa4—baa5—罢baa6to express doubt / command / casual invitation

seisei1—死sei2to die 四sei3labourersei4—sei5—sei6—

deidei1—dei2—dei3—dei4—dei5—地dei6-ly

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

生人霸死地

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: sheng1 ren2 ba4 si3 di4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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saang1 jan4 baa3 sei2 dei6

Cantonese word readings for 生人霸死地. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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phrase

(Cantonese) to be a dog in the manger

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