頭耷耷,眼濕濕

简 头耷耷,眼湿湿 · 繁 頭耷耷,眼濕濕
Cantonese · source Jyutpingtau4 dap1 dap1 ngaan5 sap1 sap1

Meanings

  1. literally: with one's head drooping and weepy eyes; dejected; depressed
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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

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Reading difference from Unihan

  • 耷 has the reading dap1 here; Unihan’s citation reading is daap3. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 耷 dap1 as its own entry.
  • 耷 has the reading dap1 here; Unihan’s citation reading is daap3. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 耷 dap1 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

ngaanngaan1—ngaan2—ngaan3—颜ngaan4color眼ngaan5eye雁ngaan6wild goose
sap湿sap1trivialsap2—sap3—sap4—sap5—十sap6ten

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

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: tou2 da1 da5 , yan3 chi4 chi4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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CC-Canto · Pleco Inc. · edition 2017-02-02
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Exact source record & identity頭耷耷,眼濕濕 头耷耷,眼湿湿 [tou2 da1 da5 , yan3 chi4 chi4] {tau4 dap1 dap1 ngaan5 sap1 sap1} /literally: with one's head drooping and weepy eyes; dejected; depressed/

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