How to pronounce 卦 in Cantonese (47 out of 122):

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但是我們看看事業宮， 反高潮地出現了衰卦
But if we look at the Career Palace, we see the anti-climax of the decline hexagram, which

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

但是 daan6 si6
but
我們 ngo5 mun4
we
看看 hon3 hon3
have a look
事業 si6 jip6
career
宮 gung1
palace
temple
castration (as corporal punishment)
first note in pentatonic scale
dwelling
enclose
地 deng6
-ly
structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
earth
soil
ground
region
the base of the coffin
出現 ceot1 jin6
appear
了 liu4
(modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
(completed action marker)
to finish
to end
to settle
a final particle indicating change of situation to understand
a verb particle indicating possibility
to put in
to take away
to escape
flee in secret
衰 seoi1
to decline
to wane
to become weak or feeble
to go downhill
irritating
annoying
disgusting
unpleasant
nasty-looking
ugly
bad
to fail
to make a mistake
to lose face
to be caught doing something wrong
mean
to be a jerk
terrible
to be down on luck
useless
to be arrested or convicted of an offense
to screw up
to fail on
卦 gwaa3
divinatory diagram
one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易经Yìjīng [易经]
one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易经Yìjīng [易经]
fortune telling
to tell fortunes

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