How to pronounce 沉 in Cantonese (1 out of 50):

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是廣西曆史文化積沉深厚的縣份之一
It's one of the most culturally rich counties in Guangzhou.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

是 si6
is
廣西 gwong2 sai1
Guangxi
曆 lik6
calendar
era
age
史 si2
history
annals
title of an official historian in ancient China
chronicle
a surname
文化 man4 faa3
culture
積 zik1
to amass
to accumulate
to store
measured quantity (such as area of volume)
product (the result of multiplication)
to integrate (math.)
to solve (or integrate) an ordinary differential equation (math.)
old
long-standing
to store up
age-long
Jack
沉 zam6
to submerge
to immerse
to sink
to keep down
to lower
to drop
deep
profound
heavy
to be addicted to
深厚 sam1 hau5
profound
的 dik1
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
縣份 jyun6 fan6
County
之一 zi1 jat1
one of

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