How to pronounce 畫眉 in Cantonese (7 out of 28):

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靜靜雞咁將自己隻蛋放喺畫眉鳥個嗰度

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

靜靜雞 zing6 zing6 gai1
quietly (spoken)
咁 gam3
so (Cantonese)
Mandarin equivalent: 这样zhèyàng [这样], like this
將 zoeng3
a military commander
a general officer
to command
自己 zi6 gei3
myself
隻 zek3
classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
single
alone
one only
one of pair
month (in prison sentence)
蛋 daan6
egg
oval-shaped M: 个gè [个]
打dá [打]
a watch
fellow (used in conjunction with an adjective or a noun in a derogatory manner)
放 fong3
to release
to free
to let go
to put
to place
to let out
to set off (fireworks)
to dismiss
to let off
to lend for interest
to send into exile
to blossom
to enlarge
to lengthen
to let out
to put (animals) out to graze
uninhibited
to be open (unconstrained sexually)
喺 hai2
in
畫眉 waak6 mei4
drawing eyebrows
鳥 niu5
bird M: 只zhī [只]
群qún [群]
KangXi radical 196
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
嗰度 go2 dou6
(adverb) there; over there (noun) there; that place; that point

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