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賺錢買花戴

简赚钱买花戴 · 繁賺錢買花戴

Cantonese · source Jyutpingzaan6 cin2 maai5 faa1 daai3

(literally: to earn money to buy flowers for wearing); one's salary is not needed for basic living expenses and can be spent on luxuries

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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

zaan66 · low levelcin22 · high risingmaai55 · low risingfaa11 · high leveldaai33 · mid level

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

Tone difference from Unihan

錢 is read cin2 here; Unihan’s citation reading is cin4. Same syllable, different tone across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 錢 cin2 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

zaanzaan1—盏zaan2great value 赞zaan3to patronizezaan4—zaan5—栈zaan6a wooden or bamboo pen for sheep or cattle

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

maaimaai1—maai2—maai3—埋maai4to bury 买maai5to buy 卖maai6to sell

faa花faa1flowerfaa2—化faa3to make intofaa4—faa5—faa6—

daaidaai1—歹daai2bad 带daai3banddaai4—daai5—大daai6

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

賺錢買花戴赚钱买

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

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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries

CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: zhuan4 qian2 mai3 hua1 dai4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

zaan6 cin2 maai5 faa1 daai3

Cantonese word readings for 賺錢買花戴. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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