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[1] [n] sound; voice; noise [2] [n] tone; pitch; accent; pronunciation; timbre [3] [n] musical note [4] news; information; tidings (usually used in correspondence) [5] Kangxi radical 180 Stroke count: 9
Level: 2
This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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語音 jyu5 jam1 = enunciation 聲音 sing1 jam1 = sound; noise; voice 播音 bo3 jam1 = transmit; broadcast 音樂 jam1 ngok6 = music 粵語拼音 jyut6 jyu5 ping3 jam1 = Cantonese romanisation 錄音 luk6 jam1 = sound-recording; to tape-record 音樂家 jam1 ngok6 gaa1 = musician 嗓音 song2 jam1 = voice 讀音 duk6 jam1 = pronunciation (in reading) 同音字 tung4 jam1 zi6 = homonym (character with exactly the same sound) See all 227 compounds (CantoDict reports 244 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations) |
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嗰啲蟬嘅聲音, 我覺得好好聽㗎! 粵
I love the sound of those cicadas [nearby]! [This is an example of topicalisation: the topic of the sentence, 嗰啲蟬嘅聲音, is placed at the front.]
蟬嘅聲音, 我覺得好好聽㗎! 粵
I love the sound cicadas [in general] make. [Note that because we haven't specified any particular cicadas, we're talking about cicadas in general. (Use 呢啲 or 嗰啲 otherwise.)]
我覺得蟬嘅聲音好好聽㗎! 粵
I love the sound cicadas make! [Lit. I feel cicada [possessive particle] sound very good-sound [particle]!]
我覺得呢啲蟬嘅聲音好好聽㗎! 粵
I love the sound these cicadas are making! [Lit. I feel these cicadas [possessive particle] sound very good-listen [particle].]
呢隻草蜢,我覺得佢嘅聲音好好聽㗎! 粵
I love the sound this grasshopper makes! [Lit. This [counter] grasshopper, I feel his sound very good-listen [particle].]
呢隻草蜢,我好鐘意佢嘅聲音㗎! 粵
I love the sound this grasshopper makes! [Lit. This [counter] grasshopper, I very like his sound [particle]. Note that 㗎 can be used interchangeably with 囉 here.] |