How to pronounce 廿 in Cantonese (23 out of 52):

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點解好多香港人學了廿年英文
Why did so many Hong Kongers learn English for 20 years?

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

點解 dim2 gaai2
(pronoun) why; how to explain; how come;
好多 hou2 do1
a lot
香港人 hoeng1 gong2 jan4
Hong Kong people
學 hok6
to learn
to study
to imitate
science
–ology
a branch of study
school
college
course of education
learning
knowledge
to learn and become
similar to
了 liu4
(modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
(completed action marker)
to finish
to end
to settle
a final particle indicating change of situation to understand
a verb particle indicating possibility
to put in
to take away
to escape
flee in secret
廿 jap6
twenty (20), in a limited number of set expressions
also written using banker's character 念
twentieth
twenty-odd
年 nin4
year
英文 jing1 man4
English
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