Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
prefecture
(old) province
(old) administrative division
state (e.g. of US)
oblast (Russia)
canton (Switzerland)
continent
to settle in a place
place surrounded by water
new
newly
meso- (chemistry)
beginning
recent
modern
neo-
the Hsin dynasty
a surname
do not
there is none who
a surname
used as part of a rhetorical question, 'can it be that'
to go
to take
sentence-final interrogative particle
variant of 于yú [于]
in
on
at
a surname
banyan tree
Ficus wightiana
an alternative name for Fuzhou, China
(modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
(completed action marker)
to finish
to end
to settle
a final particle indicating change of situation to understand
a verb particle indicating possibility
to put in
to take away
to escape
flee in secret