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雞毛蒜皮

简鸡毛蒜皮 · 繁雞毛蒜皮

Cantonese · source Jyutpinggai1 mou4 syun3 pei4#

trivial matters [written and colloquial]

Cantonese · source Jyutpinggai1 mou4 syun3 pei4#

trivial matters [written and colloquial]

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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

gai11 · high levelmou44 · low fallingsyun33 · mid levelpei44 · low falling

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

Same syllable, six tones

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

moumou1—mou2—mou3—无mou4not to have 武mou5martial 务mou6affair

syun酸syun1sour 选syun2to choose 算syun3to regard as 旋syun4to revolve 吮syun5to suck 篆syun6seal

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

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

雞毛蒜皮鸡

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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries

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

雞毛蒜皮 jī máo suàn pí CC-CEDICT · Mandarinlit. chicken feathers and garlic skins (idiom); fig. trivial (matter)

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: ji1mao2suan4pi2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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