命いのち仔こ

Chinese

		life; fate	minutely; young; duty minutely; young; duty; responsibility
simp. and trad. (命いのち仔こ)		命いのち	仔こ

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): meng⁶ zai²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: meng⁶ zai²
    • Yale: mehng jái
    • Cantonese Pinyin: meng⁶ dzai²
    • Guangdong Romanization: méng⁶ zei²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɛːŋ²² t͡sɐi̯³⁵/

Noun

命いのち仔こ

1. (Cantonese) one's life (as opposed to death) (Classifier: 條じょう／条じょう c)

   執と返かえし條じょう命いのち仔こ算さん係かかり噉。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   执返かえし条じょう命いのち仔こ算さん系けい噉。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   zap¹ faan¹ tiu⁴ meng⁶ zai² syun³ hai⁶ gam². [Jyutping]

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Synonyms

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• 一いち口氣こうき／一口ひとくち气 (yīkǒuqì) (figurative)
• 性せい命いのち (xìngmìng)
• 活かつ命いのち (huómìng)
• 生命せいめい (shēngmìng)

 

Derived terms

• 命いのち仔こ凍こお過か水みず／命いのち仔こ冻过水すい