How to pronounce 伍子胥 in Cantonese (3 out of 4):

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伍子胥知道公子光想殺吳王僚

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

伍子胥 ng5 zi2 sou1
Wu Zixu
知道 zi1 dou3
know
公子 gung1 zi2
son of a noble or wealthy family
光 gwong1
light
ray M: 道dào [道]
bright
only
merely
to use up
glossy
smooth
glory
honor
bare
naked
a surname
想 soeng2
to think
to believe
to suppose
to wish
to want
to miss (feel wistful about the absence of sb or sth)
to plan
殺 saat3
to kill
to murder
to fight
to weaken or reduce
to smart (dialect)
to counteract
(used after a verb) extremely
to destroy
to exterminate
to hurt
吳 ng4
Ng (Cantonese surname)
王 wong6
to govern
to rule
僚 lou5
a generic term for some ethnic minorities

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