嘢可以亂食,說話唔可以亂講
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Chinese[edit]
(Cantonese) thing | wildly; haphazardly; arbitrarily | to eat | words; what one says | may not; cannot | wildly; haphazardly; arbitrarily | to speak; to talk | ||||
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trad. (嘢可以亂食,說話唔可以亂講/嘢可以亂食,説話唔可以亂講) | 嘢 | 可以 | 亂 | 食 | , | 說話/説話 | 唔可以 | 亂 | 講 | |
simp. (嘢可以乱食,说话唔可以乱讲) | 嘢 | 可以 | 乱 | 食 | , | 说话 | 唔可以 | 乱 | 讲 | |
Literally: “food could be eaten haphazardly, [but] words cannot be spoken haphazardly”. |
Pronunciation[edit]
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: je5 ho2 ji5 lyun6-2 sik6, syut3 waa6 m4 ho2 ji5 lyun6-2 gong2
- Yale: yéh hó yíh lyún sihk, syut wah m̀h hó yíh lyún góng
- Cantonese Pinyin: je5 ho2 ji5 lyn6-2 sik9, syt8 waa6 m4 ho2 ji5 lyn6-2 gong2
- Guangdong Romanization: yé5 ho2 yi5 lün6-2 xig6, xud3 wa6 m4 ho2 yi5 lün6-2 gong2
- Sinological IPA (key): /jɛː¹³ hɔː³⁵ jiː¹³ lyːn²²⁻³⁵ sɪk̚² syːt̚³ waː²² m̩²¹ hɔː³⁵ jiː¹³ lyːn²²⁻³⁵ kɔːŋ³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Idiom[edit]
嘢可以亂食,說話唔可以亂講