How to pronounce 僧 in Cantonese (6 out of 12):

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呢位「巨鳩妖僧」喺生前, 居然喺信中提過
This giant dove monk was alive, and he was mentioned in the letter.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

呢 ni1
this
位 wai6
position
location
place
seat
classifier for people (honorific)
classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes)
throne
post
rank
status
巨 geoi6
very large
huge
tremendous
gigantic
a surname
鳩 kau2
turtledove
(literary) to gather
pigeon
to assemble
妖 jiu2
an exclamation
expletive, similar to saying 'shit!'
euphemism for ?, fuck
僧 sang1
monk
喺 hai2
in
生前 sang1 cin4
before death
居然 geoi1 yin4
unexpectedly
信 seon3
letter
mail M: 封fēng [封]
to trust
to believe
to profess faith in
truthful
confidence
trust
at will
at random
中 zung1
within
among
in
middle
center
while (doing sth)
during
提過 tai4 gwo3
mentioned
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