How to pronounce 米缸 in Cantonese (2 out of 4):

人窮志毋窮 毋怕米缸空
People are desperate for poverty, afraid of the empty rice.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

人 jan4
man
person
people M: 个gè [个]
位wèi [位]
mankind
someone else
窮 kung4
exhausted
poor
destitute
improverished
having an end
having a limit
most
extremely
utterly
thoroughly
to pursue to the limit
despite poverty
exhaustively
to exhaust
in trouble
without any way out
志 zi3
aspiration
ambition
the will
determination
annals
to make up one's mind to pursue some object
毋 mou4
(literary) no
don't
to not have
nobody
a surname
KangXi radical 80
怕 paa3
to be afraid
to fear
to dread
to be unable to endure
perhaps
apprehensive
米缸 mai5 gong1
(noun) a vat to store rice; a container to store rice
空 hung3
to be short of money
poor

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