Home
CantoDict HomeCantoDict Settings

Remove Adverts and gain lots of extra features
What is this page showing me?

四月忽然間落場大雪真係五月」!
It suddenly snowed during the end of April. "Until it's time to eat Dragon Boat Festival's dumplings, don't put away your warm clothes," as they say!

五月 is a Cantonese saying. There are variations used by Mandarin and other dialects.
This sentence is in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

  Level: 4
四月尾忽然間落場大雪,真係「未食五月粽,寒衣唔入籠」!

Sponsors: One-on-One Online Chinese Tutoring | Chinese Language | Learn Spanish
Learn Chinese | Learn Chinese in China | Learn Mandarin in China | Chinese School | Chinese course in London

四月  sei3 jyut6  si4 yue4  -  April
 mei5  wei3 yi3  - tail; rear; end; remnant
忽然間  fat1 jin4 gaan1  hu1 ran2 jian1  -  suddenly; all the sudden
落場  lok6 coeng4    -  leave, end, conclude
大雪  daai6 syut3  da4 xue3  -  Great Snow, 21st of the 24 solar terms 7th-21st December
真係  zan1 hai6  zhen1 xi4  -  really
 mei6  wei4  - not yet, not
 sik6 zi6  shi2 si4  - eat; food
五月  ng5 jyut6  wu3 yue4  -  May
 zung2 zung3  zong4  - glutinous rice dumpling
 hon4  han2  - cold; wintry; chilly
 ji1 ji3  yi1 yi4  - clothing; garment; coating
 m4  wu2  - not; no
 jap6  ru4  - enter
 lung4 lung5  long2 long3  - cage; bamboo steamer; envelop; large box
This sentence was added by bernard and last edited on 12th Nov 2013 06:03
This page shows, from top to bottom:
Script executed in 0.083591 secs
Rows returned from database=1
Donate to CantoDict
CantoDict v1.4.2 is a collaborative Chinese Dictionary project started in November 2003. Entries are added and mistakes corrected by a team of kind volunteers from around the world.
Copyright Adam Sheik 2003-2024.