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親生仔不如近身錢

简亲生仔不如近身钱 · 繁親生仔不如近身錢

Cantonese · source Jyutpingcan1 saang1 zai2 bat1 jyu4 gan6 san1 cin4

an expression which says that having money for oneself is more reliable or secure than having to depend on one's own son

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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

can11 · high levelsaang11 · high levelzai22 · high risingbat11 · high levelchecked · -tjyu44 · low fallinggan66 · low levelsan11 · high levelcin44 · low falling

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

Reading difference from Unihan

生 has the reading saang1 here; Unihan’s citation reading is sang1. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 生 saang1 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

can亲can1parent 诊can2to examine or treat medically 衬can3against the skin 陈can4to lay outcan5—can6—

saangsaang1—省saang2to savesaang3—saang4—saang5—saang6—

zai剂zai1dose 仔zai2young 制zai3to manufacturezai4—zai5—滞zai6sluggish

bat不bat1notbat2—bat3—bat4—bat5—拔bat6to pull up

jyu于jyu1in 伛jyu2hunchbacked 酗jyu3to become drunk and violent 鱼jyu4fish 语jyu5dialect 预jyu6to take part in

gan根gan1root 紧gan2tight 艮gan3bluntgan4—gan5—近gan6near

san新san1newsan2—san3—神san4deity 肾san5dim-witted 慎san6careful

cin千cin1thousand 浅cin2shallowcin3—前cin4front 践cin5to fulfillcin6—

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

親生仔不如近身錢亲钱

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: qin1 sheng1 zi3 bu4 ru2 jin4 shen1 qian2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

can1 saang1 zai2 bat1 jyu4 gan6 san1 cin4

Cantonese word readings for 親生仔不如近身錢. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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