How to pronounce 持 in Cantonese (120 out of 157):

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他持貨高達10年起計
who held stocks for as long as 10 years.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

他 to1
he or him
(used for either sex when the sex is unknown or unimportant)
(used before sb's name for emphasis)
(used as a meaningless mock object)
other
another
持 ci4
hold
貨 fo6
goods
money
commodity M: 个gè [个]
products
freight
cargo
stock
money
currency
bribe
bribery
to sell
a derogatory way to curse or to refer to somone
drugs
stolen goods
高達 gou1 daat6
up to
年 nin4
year
起 hei2
to rise
to raise
to get up
to set out
to start
to appear
to launch
to initiate (action)
to draft
to establish
to get (from a depot or counter)
verb suffix, to start
(before place or time) starting from
classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance
classifier for groups: batch, group
to stand up
to go up
to happen
to take place
to uncover
計 gei3
to calculate
to compute
to count
to regard as important
to plan
ruse
meter
gauge
to plot
strategem
scheme
a measuring device
a surname

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