Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
cigarette or pipe tobacco M: 根gēn [根]
smoke
mist
vapour M: 缕lǚ [缕]
tobacco plant
(of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke
ace (in playing cards)
soot
opium
(Cantonese) to be
to connect
to relate to
to tie up
to bind
to be (literary)
to involve
relation
relationship
consequence
yes
indeed
right
close
recent
until
till
to stand close together
to cling to
to collude with
more
even more
further
still
still more
1. fork 2. branch 3. bifurcation 4. girl 5. (reduplication丫丫) baby 6. (onomat.) sound of raven 7. (onomat.) sound of baby crying
used in transliteration, such as in 'lama'