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精悍

Cantonese · source Jyutpingzing1 hon5

Capable and vigorous

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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

zing11 · high levelhon55 · low rising

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

Tone difference from Unihan

悍 is read hon5 here; Unihan’s citation reading is hon6. Same syllable, different tone across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 悍 hon5 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

zing精zing1essence 整zing2exactly 正zing3straightzing4—zing5—静zing6still

hon看hon1to look after 罕hon2rare 汉hon3man 寒hon4cold 旱hon5drought 汗hon6perspiration

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

精悍

Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.

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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries

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

精悍 jīng hàn CC-CEDICT · Mandarin(of a person) lean, tough and capable; (of expression, style etc) concise and effective

A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.

CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: jing1 han4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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