How to pronounce 秆 in Cantonese (1 out of 3):

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「唔...用禾秆草起房子，」
"No, I built a house with hay grass".

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

唔 ng4
oh (expression of agreement or surprise)
(Cantonese) not
to hold in mouth
to bite
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
禾 wo4
cereal
grain
a surname
rice plant
rice crop
a rice paddy
秆 gon3
stalk
草 cou2
grass
straw
manuscript
draft (of a document)
careless
rough M: 棵kē [棵]
撮zuǒ [撮]
株zhū [株]
根gēn [根]
thatch
herbs
weed
cannabis
a style of script type in Chinese calligraphy
ten bucks
dollars
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
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