How to pronounce 斤 in Cantonese (3 out of 656):

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接近兩斤
Nearly two pounds.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

接近 zip3 gan6
approach
兩 loeng5
two
both
some
a few
tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1
16 of a catty 斤jīn [斤] (old)
a group of about ten people
斤 gan3
catty
weight equal to 0.5 kg
(Tw) weight equal to 0.6 kg
an axe
shrewdly
hundred (bucks)

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