How to pronounce 珊瑚 in Cantonese (25 out of 27):

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起到個珊瑚堡(coral castle)出來
built a coral castle single-handedly.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

起 hei2
to rise
to raise
to get up
to set out
to start
to appear
to launch
to initiate (action)
to draft
to establish
to get (from a depot or counter)
verb suffix, to start
(before place or time) starting from
classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance
classifier for groups: batch, group
to stand up
to go up
to happen
to take place
to uncover
到 dou3
to (a place)
until (a time)
up to
to go
to arrive
(verb complement denoting completion or result of an action)
been to
a particle used after a verb or adjective to indicate degree
extent
個 go3
individual
this
that
size
classifier for people or objects in general or an action
indicates approximation when placed before numbers and after a verb
adds emphasis when added before a complement used with a verb
size
height
one
possessive particle
ten thousand dollars
bucks
珊瑚 saan1 wu4
coral
堡 pou3
an alternative form for 鋪, shop
to arrange
出來 ceot1 loi4
come out

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