How to pronounce 杉 in Cantonese (18 out of 19):

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另外兩位投資和紅杉資本和騰訊加起來佔8.5%
two investors, Sequoia Capital and Tencent together hold 8.5%.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

另外 ling6 ngoi6
(pronoun) another
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
位 wai6
position
location
place
seat
classifier for people (honorific)
classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes)
throne
post
rank
status
投資 tou4 zi1
invest
和 wo4
and
紅 hung4
red
popular
revolutionary
bonus
blush
flush
杉 saam1
China fir
Cunninghamia lanceolata
also pr. [shā]
資本 zi1 bun2
capitalist
騰訊 tang4 seon3
Tencent
加 gaa3
to add
plus
(used after an adverb such as 不, 大, 稍 etc, and before a disyllabic verb, to indicate that the action of the verb is applied to sth or sb previously mentioned)
to apply (restrictions etc) to (sb)
to give (support, consideration etc) to (sth)
to increase
to augment
to append
起來 hei2 loi4
to rise; arise
佔 zim3
to take possession of
to occupy
to take up
to constitute
to hold
to account for

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