Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
li (Chinese mile)
500 meters (modern)
home
hometown
village
neighborhood
administrative unit
lane
alley
a precinct
this place
here
a surname
of
~'s (possessive particle)
(used after an attribute)
(used to form a nominal expression)
(used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
truly
really
indeed
target
to lift up
few
small
to fetch
to move
to get
to pick up
to force
paragraph
section
segment
stage (of a process)
classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc
grade
rank in martial arts or chess games
a surname
phase
division
皮蛋瘦肉粥
pei4 daan2 sau3 juk6 zuk1
Congee with Minced Pork and Preserved Egg
unit of money (in PRC: Chinese yuan, in USA: dollar, etc)
primary
the first
origin
head
eldest
the Yuan Dynasty
a surname
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