How to pronounce 役 in Cantonese (3 out of 10):

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第一次元日戰爭—文永之
The first war of the Yuan Dynasty was a turbulent one.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

第一次 dai6 jat1 ci3
first time
jyun4
unit of money (in PRC: Chinese yuan, in USA: dollar, etc)
primary
the first
origin
head
eldest
the Yuan Dynasty
a surname
mik6
sun
day
date, day of the month
daytime
daily
Japan
戰爭 zin3 zeng1
war
man6
to cover up
to paint over
wing5
forever
always
perpetual
far-reaching
zi1
1. (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的de [的]), ‘s 2. him 3. her 4. it 5. subordinate particle 6. this 7. that 8. these 9. those 10. to go to 11. an expletive in a phrase or a sentence with no particular meaning 12. (of road) branch
jik6
forced labor
corvée
obligatory task
military service
to use as servant
to enserf
servant (old)
war
campaign
battle
to serve labor at frontier
to command somone as servant
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