How to pronounce 息 in Cantonese (146 out of 184):

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派息給你 不等於股價不會跌的
Paying you dividends doesn’t mean the share price won’t fall.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

派 paai3
clique
school
group
faction
to dispatch
to send
to assign
to appoint
sect
branch
style
a quantifier for a speech
scene
atmosphere
to criticize
to accuse
to censure
息 sik1
breath
news
interest (on an investment or loan)
to cease
to stop
to rest
Taiwan pr. [xí]
rest
recess
to multiply
to grow
給 kap1
to
for
for the benefit of
to give
to allow
to do sth (for sb)
(grammatical equivalent of 被)
(grammatical equivalent of 把)
(sentence intensifier)
to supply
to provide
well provided for
abundant
glib
你 nei5
you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您nín [您])
can be used to refer to an unspecified person
不等 bat1 dang3
not equal
於 wu1
(literary) Oh!
Ah!
a tiger (dated term)
股價 gu2 ga3
stock price
不會 bat1 wui5
will not
跌 daat3
to drop
to fall
to tumble
Taiwan pr. [dié]
to stumple
to slip
to stamp
a fall
的 dik1
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

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