How to pronounce 慘 in Cantonese (30 out of 165):

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咁好慘㗎係傷超過1000人啦死係超過300人
It's a shame. More than 1,000 people were injured, more than 300 died.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

咁 gam3
so (Cantonese)
Mandarin equivalent: 这样zhèyàng [这样], like this
好 hou3
to like
to love
to be fond of
to be liable to
to be likely to
慘 caam2
miserable
wretched
cruel
inhuman
disastrous
tragic
dim
gloomy
pitiful
cruel
㗎 gaa3/ gaa4
sentence-final particle, contraction of "嘅呀" (Cantonese), to express doubt
reservation
emphasis
disapproval
see also 嘅kài [嘅]
係 hai6
(Cantonese) to be
to connect
to relate to
to tie up
to bind
to be (literary)
to involve
relation
relationship
consequence
yes
indeed
right
傷 soeng1
to injure
injury
wound
to be ill from
to grief
distressed
to hurt
超過 ciu1 gwo3
exceed
人 jan4
man
person
people M: 个gè [个]
位wèi [位]
mankind
someone else
啦 la5
“now”, with an connotation of doubt
surprise
disapproval
死 si2
to die
impassable
uncrossable
inflexible
rigid
extremely
damned
dead
death
the dead
die for (cause)
condemned to die
solid, not hollow
irreconcilable
deadly
obsolete
to the death
stubbornly
desperately
resolutely
dogmatic
in a unconscious
to do something by rote
to do something passively, without doing anything
used to emphasis the negative meaning of a word or phrase

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