呃 (aak1 ngaak1 aak3 ak1 | e4) : cheat; deceive; hiccup; hiccough

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呃

aak1 ngaak1 aak3 ak1

[粵] aak1 ngaak1 - Cantonese only
[v] cheat; deceive; dupe | [國] 欺騙

[粵] aak3
final particle for emphasizing a consent or denial

[粵] ak1 | [國] e4
[n] hiccup; hiccough

Jyutping aak1 is standard reading; the variant ngaak1, though hypercorrect, is somehow equally popular.

Default PoS:

Additional PoS:

Stroke count: 7

Level: 2

Radical: 口 (#30)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

呃

This word has been viewed 18750 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by Steph_fr on 9th Jun 2007 15:33 and last edited on 24th Jul 2013 11:35

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偷呃拐騙 tau1 aak1 gwaai2 pin3 = stealing, cheating, swindling 粵

呃秤 aak1 cing3 = a merchant shorts the scale to cheat the customer; "putting one's thumb on the scale" 粵

呃鬼 aak1 gwai2 = expression of skepticism (lit., "cheating the ghost") 粵

呃鬼食豆腐 aak1 gwai2 sik6 dau6 fu6 = expression of skepticism 粵

呃晒 aak1 saai3 = completely clueless 粵

呃神騙鬼 aak1 san4 pin3 gwai2 = expression of skepticism (lit., "cheating gods, swindling ghosts") 粵

呃人 aak1 jan4 = to cheat someone; to trick someone; to lie to someone 粵

呃騙 aak1 pin3 = to cheat; to bilk 粵

呃呃騙騙 aak1 aak1 pin3 pin3 = to mooch; to swindle and bluff 粵

靠呃 kaau3 aak1 kao4 e4 = depend on deceptive tricks to make a living; to hoax and swindle to make a lving 粵
See all 13 compounds (CantoDict reports 12 compounds in total, which would seem to be an error - please report this on the CantoDict forum)

Showing all 4 examples containing 呃

你哋真係呃唔到人粵
You're no good at fooling people.
[Lit. you-[plural marker] really trick-not-arrive people]

佢奉旨唔呃人㗎！粵
He definitely never lies!
[http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,134219,134225#msg-134225]

唔係呃,我今朝重未見到佢。粵
No, I haven't seen him yet this morning.
[呃 [aak3] is a final particle used here to emphasize a denial of sth which is often detailed immediately after it.]

佢哋結咗婚?呃鬼食豆腐咩。粵
They got married! You're kidding!

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Decimal representation of this word: 呃
Unicode code for this character: U+5443 (off-site link)

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