飛哩啡呢

简 飞哩啡呢 · 繁 飛哩啡呢
Cantonese · source Jyutpingfi4 li1 fe4 le4

Meanings

  1. gabbling, describes someone who talks rapidly with unclear articulation
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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.

Tone and syllable differences from Unihan

  • 飛 has the reading fi4 here; Unihan’s citation reading is fei1. Different syllable across these source readings.
  • 啡 is read fe4 here; Unihan’s citation reading is fe1. Same syllable, different tone across these source readings.
  • 呢 has the reading le4 here; Unihan’s citation reading is nai4. Different syllable across these source readings.

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

li哩li1indistinctli2—li3—li4—li5—li6—
fe啡fe1morphinefe2—fe3—fe4—fe5—fe6—
lele1—咧le2to stretch mouthle3—le4—le5—le6—

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: fei1 li5 fei1 ne5. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

fi4 li1 fe4 le4

Cantonese word readings for 飛哩啡呢. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

adj

  1. (Cantonese, onomatopoeia) Used to describe when someone is crying tremendously
  2. (Cantonese, onomatopoeia) Used to describe when someone is talking fast

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Exact source record & identity飛哩啡呢 飞哩啡呢 [fei1 li5 fei1 ne5] {fi4 li1 fe4 le4} /gabbling, describes someone who talks rapidly with unclear articulation/

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