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窗口位

Cantonese · source Jyutpingcoeng1 hau2 wai2

(noun) a window seat

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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

coeng11 · high levelhau22 · high risingwai22 · high rising

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

Tone difference from Unihan

位 is read wai2 here; Unihan’s citation reading is wai6. Same syllable, different tone across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 位 wai2 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

coeng枪coeng1gun 抢coeng2to fight over 唱coeng3to sing 長coeng4longcoeng5—coeng6—

hau齁hau1口hau2mouth 吼hau3roar or howl of an animal 喉hau4throat 厚hau5thick 后hau6back

wai威wai1power 委wai2to entrust 畏wai3to fear 为wai4to do 伟wai5big 位wai6position

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

窗口位

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: chuang1 kou3 wei4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

coeng1 hau2 wai6

Cantonese word readings for 窗口位. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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noun

(Cantonese) seating by a window

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