How to pronounce 岛 in Cantonese (24 out of 49):

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广东美术馆和星海音乐厅也都位于二沙岛，文化艺术氛围扑面而来

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

广 shop
broad
东 dung1
east
美 mei5
beautiful
very satisfactory
good
to beautify
to be pleased with oneself
to praise
to use euphemism
American
America
beauty
perfection
pleasing
perfect
术 seot6
art
馆 gun2
museum
和 wo4
and
星 sing1
star
heavenly body
satellite
small amount
planet
luminous celestial bodies
spark
fragments
a celebrity
nocturnal
name of one of the 28 constellations
astrology
海 hoi2
ocean
sea M: 个gè [个]
片piàn [片]
great number of people or things
(dialect) numerous
aimlessly
overseas
Shanghai
a surname
音 jam1
sound
noise
note (of musical scale)
tone
news
syllable
reading (phonetic value of a character)
pitch
pronunciation
KangXi radical 180
乐 lok6
happy; music; to enjoy
厅 ting1
hall
也 jaa5
also
too
(in Classical Chinese) final particle implying affirmation
neither
either
even
as well
still
likewise
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
位 wai6
position
location
place
seat
classifier for people (honorific)
classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes)
throne
post
rank
status
于 jyu4
to go
to take
sentence-final interrogative particle
variant of 于yú [于]
in
on
at
a surname
二 ji6
two
(Beijing dialect) stupid
twice
second
vice-
once more
again
double
different
沙 saa1
granule
hoarse
raspy
sand
powder M: 粒lì [粒]
abbr. for Tsar or Tsarist Russia
a surname
岛 dou2
island
文化 man4 faa3
culture
艺 ngai6
art
氛 fan1
miasma
vapor
atmosphere
gas
air
围 wai4
surround; enclosure
扑 pok3
pounce
面 min2
face
side
surface
aspect
top
classifier for flat surfaces such as drums, mirrors, flags etc
dimension
on one side
to face
superficial
personally
façade
extent
range
scale
scope
to meet
to confront
directly
one's face
respect
reputation
honour
而 nang4
an alternative form for 能,to be able
来 loi4
come

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