Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
        
        
                     
            
              (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
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              five
            
            
              a surname
            
            
              multifarious
            
         
        
                     
            
              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
            
         
        
                     
            
              thin piece
            
            
              flake
            
            
              a slice
            
            
              to slice
            
            
              to carve thin
            
            
              partial
            
            
              incomplete
            
            
              one-sided
            
            
              classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water
            
            
              classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc
            
            
              used with numeral 一yī [一]: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc
            
            
              to pare
            
            
              KangXi radical number 91
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              all
            
            
              both
            
            
              entirely
            
            
              (used for emphasis) even
            
            
              already
            
            
              (not) at all
            
            
              metropolis
            
            
              capital
            
            
              big city
            
            
              the whole
            
            
              elegant
            
            
              refined
            
            
              without exception
            
            
              also
            
            
              too
            
            
              still
            
            
              used in a sentence to add an inference or interrogative tone
            
         
        
        
        
                     
            
              mouth
            
            
              beak
            
            
              nozzle
            
            
              spout (of teapot etc) M: 张zhāng [张] 
            
            
               个gè [个]
            
            
              lips
            
            
              to kiss
            
            
              a blow
            
            
              a hit
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              the first of the eight diagrams, denoting the principle of heaven, the sovereign, the male and strength
            
            
              a surname
            
         
        
                     
            
              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
            
         
        
                     
            
              white
            
            
              snowy
            
            
              pure
            
            
              bright
            
            
              empty
            
            
              blank
            
            
              plain
            
            
              clear
            
            
              to make clear
            
            
              in vain
            
            
              gratuitous
            
            
              free of charge
            
            
              reactionary
            
            
              anti-communist
            
            
              funeral
            
            
              to stare coldly
            
            
              to write wrong character
            
            
              to state
            
            
              to explain
            
            
              vernacular
            
            
              spoken lines in opera
            
            
              unblemished
            
            
              a surname
            
            
              the spoken dialogue in a stage show
            
            
              to have a strong drink to celebrate
            
            
              to clear up
            
            
              to confess to
            
            
              to turn white
            
            
              for no reason
            
            
              simply
            
            
              just
            
            
              easy to understand
            
         
        
                     
            
              side
            
            
              edge
            
            
              margin
            
            
              border
            
            
              boundary M: 个gè [个]
            
            
              simultaneously
            
            
              verge
            
            
              hem
            
            
              limits
            
            
              bounds
            
            
              nearby
            
            
              near to
            
            
              a surname
            
            
              which
            
            
              where
            
            
              what
            
         
        
                     
            
              maybe
            
            
              perhaps
            
            
              might
            
            
              possibly
            
            
              or
            
            
              someone
            
            
              slightly