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茶餘飯後

简茶余饭后 · 繁茶餘飯後

Mandarin · pinyin chá yú fàn hòu

leisure time (over a cup of tea, after a meal etc)

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茶: chá · tea
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飯: fàn · cooked rice; food; meal
後: hòu · behind, rear, after; descendents
余: yú · I, my, me; surname; surplus
饭: fàn · cooked rice; food, meal
后: hòu · queen, empress, sovereign; (simp. for 後) behind, rear, after

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2–2–4–4 · cha2 yu2 fan4 hou4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

caa4 jyu4 faan6 hau6

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(idiomatic) leisure time; free time

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