How to pronounce 老 in Cantonese (13 out of 224):

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肉明顯炒太老 非常乾
The meat was obviously too old, too dry.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

肉 juk6
meat
flesh
pulp (of a fruit)
(coll.) (of a fruit) squashy
(of a person) flabby
irresolute
KangXi radical 130
physical
slow-motion
明顯 ming4 hin2
Obvious
炒 caau2
to sauté
to stir-fry
to speculate
to hype
to fire (sb)
to repeatedly expose
to win by a large margin
to fail
to perform badly
to have an argument
to have a row
crash
to hit something
to get mixed up with
to hang out with
to get involved with
to beat up
to clash with
to fight against
太 taai3
(adjective) (of generations) 1. Great-grand; (noun)
Great-grand mother or father; (Reduplication) "太太" =
wife; 2. Mrs.
老 lou5
prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity
old (of people)
venerable (person)
experienced
of long standing
always
all the time
of the past
very
outdated
(of meat etc) tough
old age
abbreviation for Laotse, the founder of Taoism
a surname
to retire from official service
to become old
to honor the aged
shameless, thick-skinned
familiar term of respect for elderly people
decrepit
hardened
steady
trustworthy
dark
deep (colour)
youngest (in Beijing dialect)
parents
非常 fei1 seong4
very
乾 kin4
the first of the eight diagrams, denoting the principle of heaven, the sovereign, the male and strength
a surname
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