How to pronounce 知己 in Cantonese (4 out of 9):

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士為知己者死

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

士 si6
member of the senior ministerial class (old)
scholar (old)
bachelor
honorific
first class military rank
specialist worker
soldier
the name for one type of the chess piece in Chinese chess
part of the title for someone trained in certain professions
為 wai6
because of
for
on account of
on behalf of
by (in the passive voice)
知己 zi1 gei2
confidant
者 ze2
(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...
(after a noun) person involved in ...
-er
-ist
(used after a number or 后hòu [后] or 前qián [前] to refer to sth mentioned previously)
(used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term)
(old) (used at the end of a command)
(old) this
a surname
denoting a portion
this
these
yes, yes! (exclamation)
死 si2
to die
impassable
uncrossable
inflexible
rigid
extremely
damned
dead
death
the dead
die for (cause)
condemned to die
solid, not hollow
irreconcilable
deadly
obsolete
to the death
stubbornly
desperately
resolutely
dogmatic
in a unconscious
to do something by rote
to do something passively, without doing anything
used to emphasis the negative meaning of a word or phrase

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