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計上心來

简计上心来 · 繁計上心來

Cantonese · source Jyutpinggai3 soeng5 sam1 loi4

a stratagem comes to mind

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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

gai33 · mid levelsoeng55 · low risingsam11 · high levelloi44 · low falling

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

Tone difference from Unihan

上 is read soeng5 here; Unihan’s citation reading is soeng6. Same syllable, different tone across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 上 soeng5 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

gai鸡gai1fowlgai2—计gai3to calculategai4—gai5—gai6—

soeng相soeng1each other 想soeng2to thinksoeng3—常soeng4always 绱soeng5上soeng6on top

sam心sam1heart 审sam2to examine 沁sam3to seep 忱sam4sinceritysam5—甚sam6what

loiloi1—loi2—loi3—來loi4to comeloi5—睐loi6to glance

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

計上心來计来

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: ji4 shang4 xin1 lai2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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gai3 soeng5 sam1 loi4

Cantonese word readings for 計上心來. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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phrase

(idiomatic) a stratagem comes to mind

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