雞啄唔斷

简 鸡啄唔断 · 繁 雞啄唔斷
Cantonese · source Jyutpinggai1 doeng1 m4 tyun5

Meanings

  1. (slang) cannot stop chatting or talking
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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

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

Reading difference from Unihan

  • 啄 has the reading doeng1 here; Unihan’s citation reading is doek3. Different syllable across these source readings.
  • 斷 has the reading tyun5 here; Unihan’s citation reading is dyun6. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 斷 tyun5 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—
mm1—呣m2m3—唔m4notm5—m6—
tyun煓tyun1tyun2—tyun3—屯tyun4to stationtyun5—tyun6—

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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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: ji1 zhuo2 n2 duan4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

gai1 doek3 m4 dyun3 · gai1 doeng1 m4 tyun5

Cantonese word readings for 雞啄唔斷. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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phrase

  1. (Cantonese) to talk endlessly

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Exact source record & identity雞啄唔斷 鸡啄唔断 [ji1 zhuo2 n2 duan4] {gai1 doeng1 m4 tyun5} /(slang) cannot stop chatting or talking/

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