How to pronounce 持 in Cantonese (130 out of 157):

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中國已經成為國際舞台的持份者
China has become a major player on the international stage.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

中國 zung1 gwok3
China
已經 ji5 ging1
already
成為 sing4 wai2
become
國際 gwok3 zai3
international
舞 mou5
to dance
to wield
to brandish
dance
posture
to prance
to play tricks with
to juggle
to play with
台 toi4
variant of 臺
台tái [台]
platform
unit
terrace
tower
stage
support
base
station
channel
abbreviation for Taiwan
classifier for machinery
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
持 ci4
hold
份 fan6
classifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc
variant of 分fèn [分]
portion
part
duty
suffix used after province
month to express unit
a unit
a share
者 ze2
(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...
(after a noun) person involved in ...
-er
-ist
(used after a number or 后hòu [后] or 前qián [前] to refer to sth mentioned previously)
(used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term)
(old) (used at the end of a command)
(old) this
a surname
denoting a portion
this
these
yes, yes! (exclamation)

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