嘢 (je5 | ye3) : [粵] thing; articles

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嘢

je5

ye3

[粵] thing; things; article; articles; goods; matter; stuff | 漢: 東西; 物品; 物件

Stroke count: 14

Level: 2

Radical: 口 (#30)

This character is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. 粵

嘢

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 15th Jul 2009 15:08

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乜嘢 mat1/mi1/me1 je5 mie1 ye3 = what 粵

食嘢 sik6 je5 = to eat something 粵

做嘢 zou6 je5 zuo4 ye3 = to work; to do things 粵

嘢食 je5 sik6 = food 粵

買嘢 maai5 je5 mai3 ye3 = shopping 粵

好嘢 hou2 je5 = [1] good thing [2] (expression of delight) 粵

𥄫嘢 gap6 je5 = snooping; peeping 粵

唔做嘢 m4 zou6 je5 m2 zuo4 ye3 = to not do sth. 粵

乜嘢都 mat1 je5 dou1 = whatever; anything 粵

飲嘢 jam2 je5 = [v] to drink (sth) 粵
See all 62 compounds (CantoDict reports 68 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing 10 of 45 examples containing 嘢

嗰間餐廳啲嘢好好食㗎！粵
The food at that restaurant is excellent!

我喺學校做嘢粵
I work at school

你做乜嘢呀? 粵
Why are you sad/angry?

太多嘢食喇！粵
Too much food!
[If it is obvious that food is being talked about, the more general 太多嘢喇！ would probably be preferred.]

你做緊乜嘢呀？粵
What are you doing?

過來呀，我有啲嘢想同你講呀。粵
Come over here, I've got something I want to discuss with you.

你信乜嘢教呀? 粵
What is your religion?

你中意啲乜嘢呀? 粵
What do you like?

上次我做錯嘢粵
Last time I made a mistake.

我呢排食少咗嘢粵
I've recently been eating less.

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 嘢
Unicode code for this character: U+5622 (off-site link)

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