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酒逢知己千杯少

Cantonese · source Jyutpingzau2 fung4 zi1 gei2 cin1 bui1 siu2

A thousand cups of wine are not too many when drinking with close friends

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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

zau22 · high risingfung44 · low fallingzi11 · high levelgei22 · high risingcin11 · high levelbui11 · high levelsiu22 · high rising

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

Same syllable, six tones

zau州zau1prefecture 走zau2to walk 奏zau3to play musiczau4—zau5—就zau6at once

fung風fung1wind 唪fung2recite 讽fung3to satirize 缝fung4to sewfung5—凤fung6a male phoenix

zi之zi1…子zi2son 志zi3signzi4—zi5—自zi6from

gei机gei1machine 幾gei2how much 记gei3to recordgei4—gei5—技gei6skill

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

bui杯bui1bui2—背bui3the back of a body or objectbui4—bui5—悖bui6to go against

siu消siu1to disappear 小siu2small 笑siu3laugh 韶siu4excellentsiu5—肇siu6at first

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

酒逢知己千杯少

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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries

CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:

酒逢知己千杯少 jiǔ féng zhī jǐ qiān bēi shǎo CC-CEDICT · Mandarina thousand cups of wine is not too much when best friends meet (idiom); when you're with close friends, you can let your hair down

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: jiu3 feng2 zhi1 ji3 qian1 bei1 shao3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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