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
of
~'s (possessive particle)
(used after an attribute)
(used to form a nominal expression)
(used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
truly
really
indeed
target
to lift up
few
small
to fetch
to move
to get
to pick up
to force
work
worker
skill
profession
trade
craft
labor
man-days
skilled
skillful
dextrous
good at
expert at
shift
time used in doing a piece of work
engineering or building project
defense work
fine
KangXi radical 48
same as否 (dated used in old text only), not
no
negative prefix
a final particle
to fall or drop
(of the sun) to set
(of a tide) to go out
to lower
to decline or sink
to lag or fall behind
to fall onto
to rest with
to get or receive
to write down
whereabouts
settlement
to deliver
to put in
empress
queen
sovereign
monarch
ruler
simplified form of後, behind, rear, after, descendants
to go
to take
sentence-final interrogative particle
variant of 于yú [于]
in
on
at
a surname
all
whole
entire
every
complete
perfect
a surname
(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
early
prior
former
in advance
first
for now
ancestor
pioneering
only then