How to pronounce 零 in Cantonese (204 out of 461):

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開心嘅時間只係釣咗個零鐘頭
we only caught in around 1.5 hours

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

開心 hoi1 sam1
happy
嘅 koi3
indignant
generous
to sigh (with emotion)
時間 si4 gaan3
time
只係 zi2 hai6
only (spoken)
釣 diu3
to fish with a hook and bait
to tempt
to lure
a fishhook
咗 zo2
Cantonese particle equivalent to 了le [了] or 过guò [过], a particle used to indicate perfective aspect for continuous state
completed actions
past events
change of situation
個 go3
individual
this
that
size
classifier for people or objects in general or an action
indicates approximation when placed before numbers and after a verb
adds emphasis when added before a complement used with a verb
size
height
one
possessive particle
ten thousand dollars
bucks
零 ling4
zero
nought
zero sign
fractional
fragmentary
odd (of numbers)
(placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one)
fraction
(in mathematics) remainder (after division)
extra
to wither and fall
to wither
鐘頭 zung1 tau4
hour

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