How to pronounce 十八日 in Cantonese (1 out of 2):

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因此去到五月十八日， 清廷就要李鴻章養子，駐日公使李經方去台灣，

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

因此 jan1 ci2
therefore
去到 heoi3 dou3
reach
五月 ng5 jyut6
May
十八日 sap6 baat3 jat6
eighteen days; eighteenth [date]
清廷 cing1 ting4
Qing court
就要 zau6 jiu3
about to
養子 joeng5 zi2
adopted son
駐 zyu3
stationed
日 mik6
sun
day
date, day of the month
daytime
daily
Japan
李 lei5
plum (figuratively of one's students)
a surname
a judge
經 ging1
classics
sacred book
scripture
to pass through
to undergo
to bear
to endure
warp (textile)
longitude
menstruation
channel (TCM)
abbr. for economics 经济jīngjì [经济]
unchanged principle
to manage
constant
regular
方 fong1
square
power or involution (mathematics)
upright
honest
fair and square
direction
side
party (to a contract, dispute etc)
place
method
prescription (medicine)
just when
only or just
classifier for square things
abbr. for square or cubic meter
locality
to disobey
to criticize and compare
just now
region
local
rectangular
occultism
a surname
去 heoi3
to go
to go to (a place)
to cause to go or send (sb)
(when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
to be apart from in space or time
(after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
(used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
(of a time or an event etc) just passed or elapsed
台灣 toi4 waan1
Taiwan

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