Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
        
                     
            
              correct
            
            
              right
            
            
              so
            
            
              thus
            
            
              like this
            
            
              –ly
            
            
              nevertheless
            
            
              to promise
            
            
              to pledge
            
            
              if so
            
            
              to burn
            
         
        
                     
            
              empress
            
            
              queen
            
            
              sovereign
            
            
              monarch
            
            
              ruler
            
            
              simplified form of後, behind, rear, after, descendants
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              li (Chinese mile)
            
            
              500 meters (modern)
            
            
              home
            
            
              hometown
            
            
              village
            
            
              neighborhood
            
            
              administrative unit
            
            
              lane
            
            
              alley
            
            
              a precinct
            
            
              this place
            
            
              here
            
            
              a surname
            
         
        
        
        
        
                     
            
              to prick
            
            
              to run or stick (a needle etc) into
            
            
              jug (a classifier for liquids such as beer)
            
            
              to struggle free
            
            
              to station
            
            
              to plunge
            
            
              to tie up
            
            
              bundle, a classifier for flowers, banknotes etc
            
            
              to fasten
            
            
              to be promoted in a traid gang
            
            
              to have a vasectomy
            
            
              to bind
            
         
        
                     
            
              unit of money (in PRC: Chinese yuan, in USA: dollar, etc)
            
            
              primary
            
            
              the first
            
            
              origin
            
            
              head
            
            
              eldest
            
            
              the Yuan Dynasty
            
            
              a surname
            
         
        
                     
            
              the usual; the standard; often used in ordering meals where it means the standard or normal quantity or dish(s)
            
            
              meal(s) is requested