表少

Cantonese · source Jyutpingbiu2 siu3

Meanings

  1. The term to address the younger male cousin of one's husband; the general term to address men in the past
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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

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Tone difference from Unihan

  • 少 is read siu3 here; Unihan’s citation reading is siu2. Same syllable, different tone across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 少 siu3 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

biu标biu1mark表biu2wrist or pocket watchbiu3—biu4—biu5—biu6—

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

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: biao3 shao4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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CC-Canto · Pleco Inc. · edition 2017-02-02
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Exact source record & identity表少 表少 [biao3 shao4] {biu2 siu3} /The term to address the younger male cousin of one's husband; the general term to address men in the past/

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