How to pronounce 咬文嚼字 in Cantonese (1 out of 1):

Example 1 of 1
咬文嚼字,整份文件人人皆懂 用不着你在此說
You can't just bite the paper, you can't write the paper, and you can't do that.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

咬文嚼字 ngaau5 man4 ze3 zi6
split hairs on wording
zing2
exactly
in good order
whole
complete
entire
in order
orderly
to repair
to mend
to renovate
(coll.) to fix sb
to give sb a hard time
to mess with sb
to tidy
to arrange
to adjust
to make ready
to set in order
to make
to fetch
to give
to trick
fan6
classifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc
variant of 分fèn [分]
portion
part
duty
suffix used after province
month to express unit
a unit
a share
文件 man4 gin2
document
人人 jan4 jan4
everyone
gaai1
all
each and every
in all cases
dung2
(verb) Know
用不着 yung6 bat1 zoek3
no need to
nei5
you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您nín [您])
can be used to refer to an unspecified person
在此 zoi6 ci2
here
syut3
to speak
to say
to explain
to scold
to tell off
a theory (usually in compounds such as 日心说 heliocentric theory)
to criticize
to try to influence someone to do something
to mean
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