How to pronounce 爾 in Cantonese (30 out of 95):

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任爾東西南北風 習以成性
The winds of the Northeast and the Southwest are blowing.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

任 jam6
to assign
to appoint
to take up a post
office
responsibility
to let
to allow
to give free rein to
no matter (how, what etc)
classifier for the number of terms served in office, post, or rank
爾 ji5
thus
so
like that
you
thou
used as a final particle
an adverb particle
a suffix after an adjective
your
that
near
東西南北 dung1 sai1 naam4 bak1
all directions
風 fung3
an alternative form for 諷, to satirize
習以成性 zaap6 ji5 sing4 sing3
habit becomes nature
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