當食生菜

简 当食生菜 · 繁 當食生菜
Cantonese · source Jyutpingdong1 sik6 saang1 coi3

Meanings

  1. giving promise easily (slang)
About these definitions

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

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

sik色sik1colorsik2—sik3—sik4—sik5—食sik6to eat
saangsaang1—省saang2to savesaang3—saang4—saang5—saang6—
coicoi1—彩coi2color菜coi3dish财coi4moneycoi5—coi6—

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: dang1 shi2 sheng1 cai4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

dong3 sik6 saang1 coi3

Cantonese word readings for 當食生菜. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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Exact source record & identity當食生菜 当食生菜 [dang1 shi2 sheng1 cai4] {dong1 sik6 saang1 coi3} /giving promise easily (slang)/

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