Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
        
        
        
        
                     
            
              aside from; except for; unless
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              to abolish
            
            
              to abandon
            
            
              to abrogate
            
            
              to discard
            
            
              to depose
            
            
              to oust
            
            
              crippled
            
            
              abandoned
            
            
              waste
            
            
              useless
            
            
              to fall of
            
            
              invalid
            
         
        
                     
            
              slave
            
            
              servant
            
            
              a humble way to say 'I' by a servant or an official when addressing one's master
            
            
              term of disparagement
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              he 
            
            
               she 
            
            
               it (Cantonese)
            
            
              Mandarin equivalent: 他tā [他]
            
         
        
                     
            
              second month of a season
            
            
              middle
            
            
              intermediate
            
            
              second amongst brothers
            
            
              a surname
            
            
              a mediator
            
            
              still (doing something)
            
            
              still (usually used in the context of ‘still not’ or to describe the remaining time left till something)
            
            
              even more
            
            
              in addition
            
            
              last but not the least
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              residence
            
            
              (coll.) to stay in at home
            
            
              to hang around at home
            
            
              house
            
            
              home
            
            
              dwelling
            
            
              grave
            
         
        
                     
            
              -ly
            
            
              structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
            
            
              earth
            
            
              soil
            
            
              ground
            
            
              region
            
            
              the base of the coffin
            
         
        
                     
            
              law
            
            
              method
            
            
              way
            
            
              Buddhist teaching
            
            
              Legalist
            
            
              to follow the example of
            
            
              criterion
            
            
              regulation
            
            
              standard
            
            
              rule
            
            
              statute
            
            
              principal
            
            
              system
            
            
              to adhere to the rules
            
            
              France
            
            
              French
            
            
              a surname
            
            
              Buddhist rituals
            
            
              Buddhist rites