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真金白銀

简真金白银 · 繁真金白銀

Cantonese · source Jyutpingzan1 gam1 baak6 ngan2

real hard cash (spoken)

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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

zan11 · high levelgam11 · high levelbaak66 · low levelchecked · -kngan22 · high rising

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

Tone difference from Unihan

銀 is read ngan2 here; Unihan’s citation reading is ngan4. Same syllable, different tone across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 銀 ngan2 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

zan真zan1really 轸zan2square 震zan3to shakezan4—zan5—阵zan6disposition of troops

gam金gam1gold 感gam2Get a cold 禁gam3to prohibitgam4—gam5—揿gam6to press

baak迫baak1baak2—百baak3hundredbaak4—baak5—白baak6white

nganngan1—ngan2—ngan3—银ngan4cashngan5—ngan6—

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

真金白銀银

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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries

CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:

真金白銀 zhēn jīn bái yín CC-CEDICT · Mandarinreal money; cold, hard cash

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: zhen1 jin1 bai2 yin2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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