How to pronounce 九 in Cantonese (233 out of 479):

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十個香港人，九個都買
ten Hong Kong people, nine buy

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

十 sap6
ten
tenth
complete
completely
perfect
extremely
KangXi radical 24
個 go3
individual
this
that
size
classifier for people or objects in general or an action
indicates approximation when placed before numbers and after a verb
adds emphasis when added before a complement used with a verb
size
height
one
possessive particle
ten thousand dollars
bucks
香港人 hoeng1 gong2 jan4
Hong Kong people
九 gau2
1. nine 2. multiple times; repeatedly 3. (crude) shithead
都 dou1
all
both
entirely
(used for emphasis) even
already
(not) at all
metropolis
capital
big city
the whole
elegant
refined
without exception
also
too
still
used in a sentence to add an inference or interrogative tone
買 maai5
to buy
to purchase
to bribe
to persuade
to bet
to place a bet on
to kill
to have killed

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