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睇相佬呃你十年八年

Cantonese · source Jyutpingtai2 soeng3 lou2 ak1 nei5 sap6 nin4 baat3 nin4

(literally: a fortune teller may deceive you for only eight or ten years); time will tell who you can trust; you will realise with time that I am telling you the truth (whilst others may lie to you); time will witness the truth; would I lie to you? [colloquial]

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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

tai22 · high risingsoeng33 · mid levellou22 · high risingak11 · high levelchecked · -knei55 · low risingsap66 · low levelchecked · -pnin44 · low fallingbaat33 · mid levelchecked · -tnin44 · low falling

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

Tone difference from Unihan

相 is read soeng3 here; Unihan’s citation reading is soeng1. Same syllable, different tone across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 相 soeng3 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

tai梯tai1ladder 体tai2body 替tai3to substitute for 提tai4to carry 娣tai5wife of a younger brothertai6—

soeng相soeng1each other 想soeng2to thinksoeng3—常soeng4always 绱soeng5上soeng6on top

lou噜lou1grumble 佬lou2man / guy / bloke / dudelou3—劳lou4to toil 老lou5prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral…路lou6road

ak握ak1to holdak2—ak3—ak4—ak5—ak6—

neinei1—nei2—nei3—弥nei4full 你nei5you 腻nei6greasy

sap湿sap1trivialsap2—sap3—sap4—sap5—十sap6ten

ninnin1—nin2—nin3—年nin4碾nin5stone rollernin6—

baatbaat1—baat2—八baat3eightbaat4—baat5—baat6—

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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睇相佬呃你十年八

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: di4 xiang1 lao3 e4 ni3 shi2 nian2 ba1 nian2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

tai2 soeng3 lou2 aak1 nei5 sap6 nin4 baat3 nin4 · tai2 soeng3 lou2 ngaak1 nei5 sap6 nin4 baat3 nin4

Cantonese word readings for 睇相佬呃你十年八年. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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