How to pronounce 勾 in Cantonese (95 out of 259):

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勾隻海蝦或者大眼仔落去

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

勾 ngau1
to hook
to sew
to crochet
hook
barb
check mark or tick
window catch
to join
to connect
to entice
a type of stroke with a hook
the base of a right triangle
to strike out
to cancel
to paint
to be reminded of something in the past
to seduce
to solicit
to thicken (soup
gravy etc)
to grasp
to get hold of
(a) year (of someone's age)
隻 zek3
classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
single
alone
one only
one of pair
month (in prison sentence)
海 hoi2
ocean
sea M: 个gè [个]
片piàn [片]
great number of people or things
(dialect) numerous
aimlessly
overseas
Shanghai
a surname
蝦 haa1
frogs
toads
或者 waak6 ze2
or
大眼仔 dai6 ngaan5 zai2
tadpole
a naive or inexperienced person
落去 lok6 heoi3
go down (spoken)

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