Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
history
annals
title of an official historian in ancient China
chronicle
a surname
(adjective) (of generations) 1. Great-grand; (noun)
Great-grand mother or father; (Reduplication) "太太" =
wife; 2. Mrs.
woods
forest M: 片piàn [片]
circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people)
a collection (of similar things)
a surname
to insult
to walk all over (sb)
to place something beneath
mat
pad
mattress
cushion
to live
to dwell
to stay
to reside
to stop
(suffix indicating firmness, steadiness, or coming to a halt)
used after a verb to indicate a continuous state or an action which has not been completed yet
used between two verbs to indicate the two actions being performed simultaneously
used after a verb to indicate the action is temporary, similar to adding 'for now' or 'yet' after a verb
base
foundation
basic
radical (chemistry)
(slang) gay
according to
basis
to describe a man with effeminate characteristics
pronoun: he
this
that
those;
particle used at the beginning of sentence to introduce a subject or in the middle or at the end of sentence with an exclamatory force
quilt
blanket
(literary) to cover
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
(legal) case
incident
record
file
table
proposal
wooden food tray used in the past