Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
宮保雞丁
gung1 bou2 gai1 ding1
Kung Pao chicken
this
these
(commonly pr. [zhèi] before a classifier, esp. in Beijing)
the
here
now
then
direction
way
road
path M: 条tiáo [条]
股gǔ [股]
principle
truth
morality
reason
skill
method
Dao (of Daoism)
to say
to speak
to talk
classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process
province (of Korea or Japan)
channel
method
doctrine
teachings
dish (type of food)
vegetable
cuisine M: 盘pán [盘]
道dào [道]
(coll.) (one's) type
a prostitute
a sexuallt attractive girl
young woman
a girlfriend
an ox
beef
man
person
people M: 个gè [个]
位wèi [位]
mankind
someone else
all
both
entirely
(used for emphasis) even
already
(not) at all
metropolis
capital
big city
the whole
elegant
refined
without exception
also
too
still
used in a sentence to add an inference or interrogative tone
it
other
used as a meaningless mock object
of
~'s (possessive particle)
(used after an attribute)
(used to form a nominal expression)
(used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
truly
really
indeed
target
to lift up
few
small
to fetch
to move
to get
to pick up
to force