Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
li (Chinese mile)
500 meters (modern)
home
hometown
village
neighborhood
administrative unit
lane
alley
a precinct
this place
here
a surname
seat of government
government repository (archive)
official residence
mansion
presidential palace
(honorific) Your home
prefecture (from Tang to Qing times)
seat of learning
treasury
residence
(modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
(completed action marker)
to finish
to end
to settle
a final particle indicating change of situation to understand
a verb particle indicating possibility
to put in
to take away
to escape
flee in secret
same as否 (dated used in old text only), not
no
negative prefix
a final particle
early
morning
Good morning!
long ago
prematurely
previous
beforehand
earlier
the back of the body
already
to stop
then
afterwards
only
too much
enough!
used as a final particle to add emphasis