How to pronounce 砖 in Cantonese (4 out of 14):

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「用砖头起房子，要用很久时间呢！」
"It takes a long time to build a house with a canvas!"

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

用 jung6
to use
to employ
to have to
to eat or drink
expense or outlay
usefulness
hence
therefore
to apply
to operate
function
to spend
to make use
to serve as
to eat
to drink
with
to need
to exert
effect
with this
砖 zyun1
brick
头 tau4
head
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
房子 fong2 zi2
house
要 jiu3
important
vital
to want
to ask for
will
going to (as future auxiliary)
may
must
(used in a comparison) must be
probably
if
essential points
necessary
necessity
to desire
to need
should
很 han2
very
久 gau2
(long) time
(long) duration of time
old
时 si4
time
间 gan1
duration
呢 ni1
this
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