How to pronounce 籤 in Cantonese (15 out of 17):

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叫你最正宗係用50枝竹籤起卦,

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

叫 giu3
to shout
to call
to order
to ask
to be called
by (indicates agent in the passive mood)
to cry
to hail
to greet
to cause
你 nei5
you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您nín [您])
can be used to refer to an unspecified person
最 zeoi3
most
the most
-est (superlative suffix)
exceedingly
extreme
正宗 zeng3 zung1
Authentic
係 hai6
(Cantonese) to be
to connect
to relate to
to tie up
to bind
to be (literary)
to involve
relation
relationship
consequence
yes
indeed
right
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
枝竹 zi1 zuk1
dry beancurd
籤 cim1
inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc)
small wood sliver
label
tag
tally
lot
marker
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
卦 gwaa3
divinatory diagram
one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易经Yìjīng [易经]
one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易经Yìjīng [易经]
fortune telling
to tell fortunes

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