How to pronounce 水炮 in Cantonese (1 out of 4):

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消防員在這艘葛量洪號操作水炮1961年
Firefighters are operating water cannons on the HMS Alexander Grantham in 1961.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

消防員 siu1 fong4 jyun4
firefighter
在 zoi6
(located) at
(to be) in
to exist
in the middle of doing sth
(indicating an action in progress)
to depend on
to rest with
to be alive
這 ze5
this
these
(commonly pr. [zhèi] before a classifier, esp. in Beijing)
the
here
now
then
艘 sou1
counting word for ships
葛 got3
kudzu (Pueraria lobata)
hemp cloth
arrowroot
a surname
edible bean
量 loeng6
capacity
quantity
amount
to estimate
abbr. for 量词liàngcí [量词], classifier (in Chinese grammar)
measure word
to appraise
to evaluate
to limit
洪 hung4
flood
big
great
a surname
號 hou6
ordinal number
day of a month
mark
sign
business establishment
size
ship suffix
horn (wind instrument)
bugle call
assumed name
to take a pulse
classifier used to indicate number of people
title
designation
nickname
store
trumpet
horn
an order
to entitle
to claim
操作 cau1 zou6
operation
水炮 seoi2 paau3
(noun) water cannon
年 nin4
year

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