How to pronounce 起 in Cantonese (63 out of 1664):

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起黎係引你買，但係唔係拎黎住
It's a buy, not a sell.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

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
黎 lai4
black
a surname
numerous
many
dark
an aboriginal tribe
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
引 jan5
to seduce or tempt
你 nei5
you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您nín [您])
can be used to refer to an unspecified person
買 maai5
to buy
to purchase
to bribe
to persuade
to bet
to place a bet on
to kill
to have killed
但係 daan6 hai6
(conjunction) but
唔係 m4 hai6
(phrase
adverb
noun) no, not.
拎 ning1
to lift
to carry in one's hand
Taiwan pr. [līng]
to take away
to bring over
to make use of someone to do something
住 zyu6
to live
to dwell
to stay
to reside
to stop
(suffix indicating firmness, steadiness, or coming to a halt)
used after a verb to indicate a continuous state or an action which has not been completed yet
used between two verbs to indicate the two actions being performed simultaneously
used after a verb to indicate the action is temporary, similar to adding 'for now' or 'yet' after a verb

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