How to pronounce 永 in Cantonese (54 out of 167):

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但由於救回唐強及三名子女時
But when I saved Tang Yong-si and his three children,

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

daan6
but
由於 jau4 jyu1
because of
gau3
save
wui4
return
tong4
to exaggerate
empty
in vain
old variant of 螗táng [螗]
Chinese
the tang dynasty
a surname
a kind of plum
abrupt
rude
wing5
forever
always
perpetual
far-reaching
koeng5
to coerce
to force
to strive to
to try hard to
kap6
and
to reach
up to
in time for
extend
come up to
to match
to catch up with
to overtake
saam3
multiple times; repeatedly
ming4
name
noun (part of speech)
place (e.g. among winners)
famous
classifier for people
rank
title
position
fame
reputation
子女 zi2 neoi5
(noun) Offspring
si4
o'clock
time
when
hour
season
period
era
current
timely
often
continously
frequently
fashionable
opportune
sometimes…sometimes
a surname
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