How to pronounce 蘇俄 in Cantonese (3 out of 4):

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原本手執蘇俄外交人民委員
It was the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

原本 jyun4 bun2
originally
手 sau2
hand
(formal) to hold
person engaged in certain types of work
person skilled in certain types of work
personal(ly)
convenient
classifier for skill M: 双shuāng [双]
只zhī [只]
portable
handy
handwritten
skill
skilled person
used in the noun first hand, second hand etc
a quantifier for the smallest tradable unit of stocks
a hand of cards
a game
a turn (gambling terminology)
執 zap1
to execute (a plan)
to grasp
father's friends
to hold
to keep to
to persist
stubborn
to coduct
to take charge of
to stick to
written acknowledgement
to catch
an intimate friend
to pick up
to pack up
to tidy up
to clean up
to correct
to revise
to close down
to go out of business
to beat up
to physically assault
to have sex with
to go bankrupt
蘇俄 sou1 ngo4
Soviet Russia
外交 ngoi6 gaau1
diplomacy
人民 jan4 man4
people
委員 wai2 jyun4
committee member
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