How to pronounce 面子 in Cantonese (5 out of 17):

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例如當股票跌，你會怕沒面子，被取笑是媽咪面，有了多餘的思考
For example, when the stock falls, you will be afraid of losing face, being ridiculed is the mother's face, with unnecessary thinking

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

例如 lai6 jyu4
for example
當 dong3
right
trap
trick
pawn
to regard as
to pawn
thought
fit
proper
safe
appropriate
to treat as
股票 gu2 piu3
stocks
跌 daat3
to drop
to fall
to tumble
Taiwan pr. [dié]
to stumple
to slip
to stamp
a fall
你 nei5
you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您nín [您])
can be used to refer to an unspecified person
會 wui6
a moment (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [huǐ])
metropolitan
gatherings union
to meet
to catch up
怕 paa3
to be afraid
to fear
to dread
to be unable to endure
perhaps
apprehensive
沒 mei6
(negative prefix for verbs)
have not
not
to be inferior to
to sink
to submerge
to rise beyond
to confiscate
to disappear
to come to an end
面子 min6 zi2
face
被 pei5
quilt
blanket
(literary) to cover
取笑 ceoi2 siu3
ridicule
是 si6
is
媽咪 maa1 mi1
mommy
面 min2
face
side
surface
aspect
top
classifier for flat surfaces such as drums, mirrors, flags etc
dimension
on one side
to face
superficial
personally
façade
extent
range
scale
scope
to meet
to confront
directly
one's face
respect
reputation
honour
有了 jau5 liu5
have it
多餘 do1 jyu6
surplus
的 dik1
of
~'s (possessive particle)
(used after an attribute)
(used to form a nominal expression)
(used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
truly
really
indeed
target
to lift up
few
small
to fetch
to move
to get
to pick up
to force
思考 si1 haau2
(verb) Think

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