How to pronounce 屹立 in Cantonese (2 out of 9):

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都屹立喺天水圍差唔多廿年

They've been standing around for almost 20 years.

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Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

都 dou1

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

屹立 ngat6 laap6

(verb) Stand

喺 hai2

天水圍 tin1 seoi2 wai4

the name of a place in Hong Kong: Tin Shui Wai

差唔多 caa1 m4 do1

(adverb) nearly; almost (差不多)

廿 jap6

twenty (20), in a limited number of set expressions

also written using banker's character 念

twentieth

twenty-odd

年 nin4

year

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