Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
        
        
        
        
        
                     
            
              to open
            
            
              to start
            
            
              to turn on
            
            
              to boil
            
            
              to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc)
            
            
              to operate (a vehicle)
            
            
              carat (gold)
            
            
              abbr. for Kelvin, 开尔文Kāi'ěrwén [开尔文]
            
            
              abbr. for 开本kāiběn [开本], book format
            
            
              to set up
            
            
              to run
            
            
              to leave
            
            
              to hold (meeting 
            
            
               exhibition)
            
            
              away
            
            
              apart
            
            
              aside
            
            
              verb particle marking habitual aspect
            
         
        
                     
            
              shell
            
            
              carapace
            
            
              crust (earth's crust etc)
            
            
              also pr. [ké]
            
            
              casing
            
            
              husk
            
            
              hull
            
            
              a ladle
            
            
              used as a classifier, scoop
            
            
              used as a classifier for measuring the quantity of drugs, cap (toothpaste tube cap size) of
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              to burn
            
            
              to cook
            
            
              to stew
            
            
              to bake
            
            
              to roast
            
            
              to heat
            
            
              to boil (tea, water etc)
            
            
              fever
            
            
              to run a temperature
            
            
              (coll.) to let things go to one's head
            
         
        
        
        
                     
            
              classifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc
            
            
              variant of 分fèn [分]
            
            
              portion
            
            
              part
            
            
              duty
            
            
              suffix used after province 
            
            
               month to express unit
            
            
              a unit
            
            
              a share