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陳皮咁舊

简陈皮咁旧 · 繁陳皮咁舊

Cantonese · source Jyutpingzan6 pei4 gam3 gau6

to describe something that is very antiquated and outmoded

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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

zan66 · low levelpei44 · low fallinggam33 · mid levelgau66 · low level

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

Tone and syllable differences from Unihan

陳 has the reading zan6 here; Unihan’s citation reading is can4. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 陳 zan6 as its own entry.
咁 is read gam3 here; Unihan’s citation reading is gam2. Same syllable, different tone across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 咁 gam3 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

zan真zan1really 轸zan2square 震zan3to shakezan4—zan5—阵zan6disposition of troops

pei披pei1to drape over one's shoulders 鄙pei2rustic 屁pei3fart 皮pei4leather 婢pei5pei6—

gam金gam1gold 感gam2Get a cold 禁gam3to prohibitgam4—gam5—揿gam6to press

gau鸠gau1slang for penis 狗gau2dog 购gau3to buygau4—gau5—旧gau6old

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

陳皮咁舊陈旧

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: chen2 pi2 gan1 jiu4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

can4 pei2 gam3 gau6

Cantonese word readings for 陳皮咁舊. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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