生舊叉燒好過生你

简 生旧叉烧好过生你 · 繁 生舊叉燒好過生你
Cantonese · source Jyutpingsaang1 gau6 caa1 siu1 hou2 gwo3 sang1 nei5

Meanings

  1. (a mother scolds to her kids with this slang to express her anger at them) better give birth to a piece of BBQ pork rather than you
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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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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—
sang生sang1to be bornsang2—蹭sang3to rub againstsang4—sang5—sang6—
neinei1—nei2—nei3—弥nei4full你nei5you腻nei6greasy

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

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: sheng1 jiu4 cha1 shao1 hao3 guo4 sheng1 ni3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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CC-Canto · Pleco Inc. · edition 2017-02-02
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Exact source record & identity生舊叉燒好過生你 生旧叉烧好过生你 [sheng1 jiu4 cha1 shao1 hao3 guo4 sheng1 ni3] {saang1 gau6 caa1 siu1 hou2 gwo3 sang1 nei5} /(a mother scolds to her kids with this slang to express her anger at them) better give birth to a piece of BBQ pork rather than you/

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