How to pronounce 麻雀 in Cantonese (10 out of 30):

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間房係麻雀嘅打麻雀嘅房
The cabin is the room of sparrows.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

間房 gaan3 fong2
to partition a room; to charge customers sharing a taxi together per head instead (to split the cost) [colloquial]
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
麻雀 maa4 zoek6
sparrow
嘅 koi3
indignant
generous
to sigh (with emotion)
打麻雀 daa2 maa4 zoek2
(verb) to play mah-jong
房 pong4
Epang palace
to hesistate

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