How to pronounce 公元 in Cantonese (30 out of 33):

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公元396第293屆亦是有紀錄的最後一屆的古代奧運會
293rd Olympic Games in 396 AD were also the last recorded ancient Olympic Games.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

公元 gung1 jyun4
AD
第 dai6
(prefix indicating ordinal number, e.g. first, number two etc)
order
(old) rank in the imperial examinations
mansion
(lit.) but
just
sequence
number
grade
degree
屆 gai3
term
亦 jik6
also
likewise
是 si6
is
有 jau6
also
again
紀錄 gei3 luk6
record
的 dik1
of
~'s (possessive particle)
(used after an attribute)
(used to form a nominal expression)
(used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
truly
really
indeed
target
to lift up
few
small
to fetch
to move
to get
to pick up
to force
最後 zeoi3 hau6
last
一 jat1
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
古代 gu2 doi6
ancient times
奧運會 ou3 wan6 wui6
Olympic Games

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