How to pronounce 上岸 in Cantonese (3 out of 19):

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中午上岸時,我們買了一斤的大眼仔
We bought a pound of eyeballs at noon.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

中午 zung1 ng5
noontime
上岸 soeng5 ngon6
to become rich (Cantonese)
si4
o'clock
time
when
hour
season
period
era
current
timely
often
continously
frequently
fashionable
opportune
sometimes…sometimes
a surname
我們 ngo5 mun4
we
maai5
to buy
to purchase
to bribe
to persuade
to bet
to place a bet on
to kill
to have killed
liu4
(modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
(completed action marker)
to finish
to end
to settle
a final particle indicating change of situation to understand
a verb particle indicating possibility
to put in
to take away
to escape
flee in secret
jat1
one
single
a (article)
as soon as
entire
whole
all
throughout
"one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
also pr. [yāo] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
first (positional)
one part of a fraction, such as 'a' quarter, an eighth
a short duration (when used with a verb)
each
same
dedicated
from the start
gan3
catty
weight equal to 0.5 kg
(Tw) weight equal to 0.6 kg
an axe
shrewdly
hundred (bucks)
dik1
of
~'s (possessive particle)
(used after an attribute)
(used to form a nominal expression)
(used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
truly
really
indeed
target
to lift up
few
small
to fetch
to move
to get
to pick up
to force
大眼仔 dai6 ngaan5 zai2
tadpole
a naive or inexperienced person
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