How to pronounce 失 in Cantonese (7 out of 36):

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后羿可謂人地兩失,
It's a loss of two people.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

后羿 hau6 ngai6
Hou Yi (mythological archer)
可謂 ho2 wai6
can be said to be
人地 jan4 dei6
others (spoken)
兩 loeng5
two
both
some
a few
tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1
16 of a catty 斤jīn [斤] (old)
a group of about ten people
失 sat1
to lose
to miss
to fail
to make a mistake
a mistake
an error
a failure
an omission
to neglect
to let slip
as a verbal prefix, similar to 'mis-'
'mal-'
'in-'
'im-'
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